Written by Laurie Higgins
State Representative Tom Morrison (R-Palatine) introduced the bi-partisan Pupil Physical Privacy Act (HB 4474), which if passed would require the following:
[A] school board to designate each pupil restroom, changing room, or overnight facility accessible by multiple pupils simultaneously, whether located in a public school building or located in a facility utilized by the school for a school-sponsored activity, for the exclusive use of pupils of only one sex.
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Tags: Barbara Wheeler, Bill Mitchell, Body Integrity Identity Disorder, C.D. Davidsmeyer, David Reis, District 211, Dwight Kay, Gender Dysphoria, HB 4474, Jeanne M. Ives, John D. Anthony, John M. Cabello, Keith Wheeler, Laurie Higgins, Mark Batinick, Mary E. Flowers, Pupil Physical Privacy Act, Reginald Phillips, Sherry L. Jesiel, Thomas Morrison, Transgender
LGBTQ Agenda | David E. Smith | January 29, 2016 3:26 PM | Comments Off on Student Privacy Bill in Springfield
Written by Russ Stewart
Michael Madigan is a political genius, a durable Democratic leader, a successful and wealthy lawyer, and a horrendously dysfunctional speaker of the Illinois House.
Mayor Richard J. Daley once babbled some nonsense that “Good government is good politics.” He should have known better, as he spent a decade in Springfield, where the operative philosophy is “good politics may be good government, but if it’s not, so what?” Grasping, clutching and holding power is endemic.… Continue Reading
Tags: Bill Kilquist, Bruce Rauner, Cullen Cullen, Dwight Kay, Glenn Nixon, Jaime Andrade, Jim Wozniak, Kate Cloonen, Lou Lang, Luis Arroyo, Marty Moylan, Mel Thillens, Michael Madigan, Mike Bost, Mike McAuliffe, Mike Smiddy, Mo Khan, Pat Quinn, Rich Morthland, Richard J. Daley, Rob Martwick, Sam Yingling, Sandy Cole
Illinois Politics | David E. Smith | October 13, 2014 7:00 AM | Comments Off on “Dysfunctional” Democrats May Keep House Supermajority