Lawmakers and Voting Buttons: SPRINGFIELD – For the life of me, I’ll never understand why lawmakers are too lazy to push their own voting buttons. After all, that’s what we pay them to do: vote on our behalf. Back in 1988 when I first covered the Illinois General Assembly, a lawmaker proudly pulled a seven-foot-long piece of No. 9 wire from under his desk and showed me he could not only vote for himself, but als...
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:40:08 +0000