Please don’t read this as a candidate endorsement, I don’t do those. This is an endorsement of the truth, which all good journalists should do.
I have covered the Illinois Legislature for more than 20 years. I’m hard pressed to point to an individual lawmaker who has a stronger record of opposing House Speaker Mike Madigan than state Rep. Jeanne Ives.
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Please don’t read this as a candidate endorsement, I don’t do those. This is an endorsement of the truth, which all good journalists should do.
I have covered the Illinois Legislature for more than 20 years. I’m hard pressed to point to an individual lawmaker who has a stronger record of opposing House Speaker Mike Madigan than state Rep. Jeanne Ives.
Depending on your political perspective, you may think that is a good thing or you may think that is a bad thing.
Regardless, it is true.
I’ve covered Ives during her six years in the Illinois General Assembly. She is about as conservative as they come.
Gov. Bruce Rauner is spending millions of dollars to portray her as a toady of the powerful speaker.
It is a lie, wrapped in a prevarication, enveloped with deception, packaged in falsehood and bound up with a fabrication.