Cori Bush defiant in defeat: "All they did was radicalize me, so now they need to be afraid."
"They about to see this other Cori, this other side," she said. "AIPAC, I'm coming to tear your kingdom down."
If you crash a forklift in a warehouse, they drug test you immediately; but if you swerve off the road and crash a police SUV into a bar, then get out and arrest its owners, apparently in St. Louis, that’s not enough to qualify as “reasonable suspicion of impairment.”
Department policy requires toxicology policy which states there has to be reasonable suspicion of impairment so there is no toxicology report on these officers
The only black man on Eastern Illinois’ swim team was wearing his EIU jacket on a road trip with his teammates when police tackled and handcuffed him. An officer pointed a gun at his head and told him, “If you move, I'll blow your (expletive) head off.”
New: Illinois House Republican Leader Jim Durkin says jailed ex-gov Blagojevich was "rogue on steroids" when he "abused the office." Adds, "I guess @realDonaldTrump's not concerned about the state of Illinois next November."
Here’s the full clip. Incoming Illinois Congresswoman Mary Miller didn’t slip or improvise when she quoted Hitler and praised how the murderous Nazi built his political movement by indoctrinating youth. She was reading from prepared remarks.
Illinois’ newest member of Congress quoting Adolf Hitler outside the US Capitol. Not sure why anyone would ever need to reference a Nazi to make a point about educating children.
Outgoing Republican Congressman @RepShimkus, who is not seeking re-election, says he is “shocked, angered and embarrassed” and no longer supports @realDonaldTrump after the President gave Turkey a green light to invade Syria. kmox.radio.com/articles/news/…
It's official: Illinois voters approve changes to the state constitution to enshrine collective bargaining rights and ban future efforts to implement Right to Work policies. With 2,113,534 votes in favor, there is no longer any mathematical path for the amendments defeat.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker calls Mary Miller’s remarks quoting Hitler “unfathomable and disgusting.” He says, “Illinois Republicans cannot allow this to stand, and must condemn this vile, evil streak in their party.”
There are still too many uncounted votes in Lake County, but at this point, it's very clear State Senator Jim Oberweis was premature in declaring victory over Congresswoman Lauren Underwood. At this time, she holds a 3,898 vote lead.
Illinois state Senator Dave Syverson (R-Rockford) posted on Facebook that Colin @Kaepernick7 “should be charged with inciting violence.”
Today, protesters surrounded him at a restaurant and screamed at him, calling him a racist until he went inside. (Vulgar language)
In the immediate aftermath of a deadly mass shooting while the shooter is at large, ILGOP nominee for Governor Darren Bailey goes on Facebook to offer prayers for families & police, voices frustrations about a canceled parade, and then says, “Let’s move on and celebrate freedom.”
The President and CEO at Goodwill defended her decision to pull paychecks from disabled workers:
"It really was not a job," she said. "We gave them through grace out of our budget to pay them so they had a paycheck to go home with."