Michael Madigan's indictment presents another election-year problem for Democrats already facing Republican attacks over crime and the COVID-19 response.
Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan speaks to reporters after a meeting where his replacement, Angie Guerrero-Cuellar, was chosen as the new state representative, on Feb. 25, 2021.
Illinois GOP Chairman Don Tracy speaks at Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield on Aug. 19, 2021. “Starting with Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Madigan’s allies in the Illinois Democrat Party will have to answer for why they enabled this corruption for so long that contributed greatly to our state’s challenges,” LaHood said in a statement.
But on Wednesday, Pritzker issued a statement calling Madigan’s alleged conduct “deplorable and a stark violation of the public’s trust” and said Madigan “must be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.” “It would be my guess the electorate at large doesn’t care, emotionally, by the time the election rolls around in November,” said one veteran Democratic lawmaker
Addressing crime has indeed dominated many early GOP campaigns. Republicans have seized upon sweeping criminal justice changes passed by Democrats and approved by Pritzker to blame the party for recent outbreaks of violent crime — even though crime has risen in many places nationally and major elements of the new measure, such as cashless bail, have yet to go into effect.
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