Chicago news (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
... legislative logjam. "We've had a lot of needs that have gone unmet," said Chicago Sen. John Cullerton. "We don't have a capital bill, we don't have our bills paid off yet, we have a problem with our pension system… There's been personality conflicts down here, which I think I can overcome." "I've worked very hard with the house speaker. I've worked very hard with the governor," said...
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
By John O'connorASSOCIATED PRESSSPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Emil Jones, a product of the Chicago Democratic machine who helped Barack Obama reach the U.S. Senate, said Monday he is stepping down as Illinois Senate president.Jones, who has spent three-and-a-half decades in the General Assembly, said in a statement he will serve until his term ends in January.His departure means Gov. Rod Blagojevich...
StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
... the state's "shameful record of convicting innocent people and putting them on Death Row." Sen. John Cullerton (D-Chicago), who co-sponsored the taping requirement with Obama, said "it doesn't make any sense" to cut funding for taping interrogations because it may actually save money by keeping the government from paying for wrongful convictions.
