21 Comments - The Dude Abides - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 1:47 pm: I agree with the Governor on this. I don’t know what Cullerton is waiting for. - Conflict - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 1:52 pm: The Senate President will do whatever he can to avoid conflict with people. So he’s going to avoid this for as long as possible. It will come down to his members pressuring him to do the right thing. - Rich Miller - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 1:55 pm: ===come down to his members pressuring him=== This is very astute and probably right. - Matt P - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 1:56 pm: Should Tom Cullerton be removed as the Chairman of the Veterans Committee? - Ravenswood Right Winger - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 1:58 pm: Matt P-Yes. - Ok - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 2:01 pm: How about those IDOT folks? - Fav human - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 2:07 pm: That’s a shot across the bow… Interesting that JP isn’t afraid to pressure someone he will need. Or he assumes, probably correctly, that others will jump on the bandwagon now that JP pushed it. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 2:12 pm: The caucus should first ask the members to voluntarily step down. If both refuse, the caucus should ask Cullerton to remove them before, as a caucus, they ask the President… publicly. - Pundent - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 2:14 pm: =Interesting that JP isn’t afraid to pressure someone he will need.= Or provide Cullerton with the cover to take action. Not that I think he needs any. Removing Sandoval as transportation chair is now inevitable. Every day this drags on is it becomes a further headache that Cullerton doesn’t need particularly with Pritzker publicly stating that it should be done. - SpfdNewb - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 2:20 pm: Good use of the bully pulpit, Gov. Pritzker must be listening to OW. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 2:24 pm: ===must be listening=== You’re kind, but it’s #FakeNews They are much brighter than to listen. - Boomerang - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 2:30 pm: It may make a difference in this case that few colleagues like Sandoval. - Chicagonk - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 2:31 pm: Not that it makes a difference, but since I’m in his district, I did email Senator Cullerton saying that he should remove Sandoval’s chairmanship. Good on Pritzker to pressure Cullerton on this. - Phil - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 2:41 pm: John Cullerton backed himself into a corner based on the way he handled the Tom Cullerton chairmanship shuffle. If he just stripped Sandoval of his chair, he could be criticized for playing favorites and treating a Latino senator different than a white one, who happens to be a distant relative. The senate prez is in a tough spot here — with both his caucus and public opinion. Sandoval could do the right thing and “temporarily” give up the chair, but that would be very un-Martylike. - Chicago Cynic - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 3:04 pm: I like Tom Cullerton but they both need to be stripped of their chairmanships. It’s neither personal nor racial. It’s just the right thing at this point. If they’re both exonerated later, that’s a different question. - A guy - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 3:36 pm: == I don’t know what Cullerton is waiting for.== Probably waiting to see him in person, from a comfortable and audibly difficult distance. No one’s wanted to talk to Marty on the phone or close to his lapel for a long time. - Iggy - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 3:55 pm: cullerton is spineless, and honestly the public doesn’t know enough to care. Marty won’t get demoted until hes charged, and even then it might not be enough for Cullerton to do anything. - ETown60120 - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 4:02 pm: @Oswego willy You are so right… - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 4:04 pm: - ETown60120 - Thanks, but I feel - Conflict - has it first and best, I just played the hand out. We’ll see what the caucus does now. - Not a Billionaire - Wednesday, Oct 2, 19 @ 8:20 pm: This where he should be Raunerlike . He should say perhaps the Senate needs new leadership…..bet some members might jump at that. - Hamil - Thursday, Oct 3, 19 @ 7:38 am: Where is the guy? On the run?? Senate Prez may not have even spoken to him Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.