Teachers’ unions have provided lots of campaign cash to Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan, who’s been implicated in a bribery scandal. Teachers who don’t want their money sent to a corrupt system can opt out of the union.
The longest-serving speaker of a state House of Representatives in the U.S. is embroiled in a corruption scandal that just might be his political undoing.
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has been implicated in a federal corruption investigation into whether Commonwealth Edison directed money, contracts and jobs to associates of his as part of an ongoing effort to buy his influence over legislation. Fellow Democrats all over the state of Illinois are calling for him to resign.
But not the state’s government unions. They have too much invested in their financial partnership with Madigan to see him step down.
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