Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Illinois Speaker Madigan's Employees Get Months Off to Do Political Work

Fox News Chicago reports:
In the world of political warfare, Shaw Decremer is a lieutenant. His troops: an army of state workers commanded by house speaker Michael Madigan. Their enemies respectfully call them "the Madigoons."

A FOX Chicago News investigation found scores of supposedly full-time state employees, like Decremer, jumping on and off the state payroll to practice politics for their boss.