Senate Votes

From the floor of the State Senate we have Senator Dan Duffy giving us a front seat view of how the Cook County Dems run Springfield. How long will the citizens stand for the way the Cook County Machine runs Springfield?

"Sitting on senate floor. We are being asked to vote on state budget bills worth billions. The catch is - the majority has not let the Republicans even see or read ANY of the bills. They even rammed the bills through and skipped the committee process...so no discussion on them either. Unbelievable.

We'll see if the papers even mention that we were not even given time to read or see any of these bills...they will probably just report we voted "no". The full story NEVER comes out.

Actually these are a series of budget bills...it is not just one big budget bill. We are still voting on them and have been voting for the past 1.5 hours so far on them. They just keep bringing them up, one at a time, describe what the bill is about, and ask us to vote. We have no access to the bills and have no idea what they are really about or what is in them. We have to just take their word for it. They are in the majority and can do whatever they want, whenever they want to. They have both houses and the governors office. They don't need one Republican vote and don't really care what we think...this whole process and todays display just proves that fact."