First up ... ethics reform
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First up ... ethics reform

Posted by JP on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 15:59

The 118-member Illinois House just voted 110-0 to reject the governor's changes to ethics legislation and reinstate the provisions as they were initially and overwhelmingly approved by the House and Senate.

Basically the plan prohibits companies with state contracts from donating to those who award the contracts. Blagojevich's campaign has pocketed gobs from firms doing business with the state.

Blagojevich decided to tack on numerous provisions including barring people with some -- but not all -- other government jobs from serving in the General Assembly. (They already cannot legally collect a paycheck from their outside government jobs while in Springfield).

House sponsor John Fritchey, a Chicago Democrat, took the governor's proposals and filed them as new proposals. He then advanced the initial plan that was overwhelmingly approved.

“This bill has seen more hurdles than the Beijing Olympics,” Fritchey said of the ethics plan.