By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News
(SPRINGFIELD) Day 2 of the current special session produced a new metaphor, but no progress.
Both the House and the Senate adjourned minutes after being called to order, prompting Governor Bruce Rauner to say, “Deja vu. President Cullerton, Speaker Madigan, turn in your homework.”
He’s referring to the school reform bill that IL State Senate President John Cullerton won’t send to Rauner until Monday.
Republican leader Bill Brady said Cullerton’s homework is overdue, noting “As students, we turned in our homework to the teacher and the teacher fixed it.”
But Democrats, like State Representative Kelly Cassidy, dismissed Rauner’s demand saying “We don’t work for the governor. We work for our constituents.”
Cassidy and State Representative Ann Williams didn’t even go to Springfield. They said they thought it would be more productive to help the folks at Sullivan High School clean out the basement to make way for a book room.
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