"'Getting flashbacks of the Madigan experience where the speaker stops saying no to everyone to desperately keep his job,' one suburban House member who asked for anonymity told me. Indeed, when Michael Madigan was under fire, he regularly agreed to put his weight behind legislation favored by groups of members, which directly led to things like hundreds of millions of dollars in state-paid healthcare for undocumented immigrants."
"'Getting flashbacks of the Madigan experience where the speaker stops saying no to everyone to desperately keep his job,' one suburban House member who asked for anonymity told me. Indeed, when Michael Madigan was under fire, he regularly agreed to put his weight behind legislation favored by groups of members, which directly led to things like hundreds of millions of dollars in state-paid healthcare for undocumented immigrants."
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Its political prostitution. Sell your souls for political backing and campaign contributions. He’s selling out his constituents
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