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Sneed hears House Speaker Mike Madigan is planning to ax former Gov. Pat Quinn’s two-term mayoral initiative when it gets filed.

• Buckshot: Madigan, the state’s powerful Dem party chief who equates Quinn to a slug, plans to work at squashing Quinn’s plan to impose a two-term limit on Chicago’s mayor — which he claims is the only big city in the country without it.

• Slingshot: Word is Madigan and Mayor Rahm Emanuel met for lunch recently downtown, and Madigan was overheard telling Emanuel he was going to kill Quinn’s term-limits initiative like he killed Fair Maps.

• Backshot: Last month, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a voter referendum-driven plan on the November ballot to change the state’s political boundaries.

Unlike the state, Chicago allows these sorts of binding referenda, so Madigan likely couldn’t kill it in the courts like he did with the remap plan. He could run a bill, but I highly doubt it would make it into law, considering the mayor’s unpopularity and the governor’s support for term limits.

Madigan’s spokesman said he wasn’t aware of any element of the story and said the lunch aspect “makes it sound suspect.”

*** UPDATE *** From the ILGOP…

ICYMI: Report – Mike Madigan Brags He “Killed” Fair Maps
Report Contradicts Madigan Spokesman

For months, Madigan and his allies have claimed they had no involvement in the People’s Map group’s successful efforts to kill the Independent Map Amendment, even as multiple media outlets described the intimate connection between Madigan, the Democratic Party of Illinois, and the People’s Map.

In July, the Associated Press reported, “Madigan’s spokesman, Steve Brown, has said neither Madigan nor the Democratic Party is involved in The People’s Map.”

But the Chicago Sun-Times reports today:

• Slingshot: Word is Madigan and Mayor Rahm Emanuel met for lunch recently downtown, and Madigan was overheard telling Emanuel he was going to kill Quinn’s term-limits initiative like he killed Fair Maps.

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Sep 9, 16 @ 9:48 am

Comments

Sounds like some more cheap fan fiction…

Comment by Ok Friday, Sep 9, 16 @ 9:55 am
Maybe the lunch was in Madeupville.

Comment by Donald Segretti Friday, Sep 9, 16 @ 9:59 am
Sneed is so rarely wrong that I have to believe this report. If Mike Sneed says it’s so, you can take it to the bank. Yes sir, the Sneed column is like the 5th Gospel.

Comment by 47th Ward Friday, Sep 9, 16 @ 9:59 am
MADIGAN: ‘May I slice my apple?”
RAHM: “Please do.”

Comment by Winnin' Friday, Sep 9, 16 @ 10:04 am
I am sure Quinn met with leaders to get support before pushing this. Quinn would never just wing it and hope for populist support, that would be horrible planning and leadership. /s

Comment by Ghost Friday, Sep 9, 16 @ 10:11 am
lunch was at the Apple store on Michigan Avenue…and we all know how the MJM loves to talk loud in a public setting..this HAS TO BE TRUE

Comment by Not Rich Friday, Sep 9, 16 @ 10:11 am
When was the last time MJM was overheard?

Comment by LizPhairTax Friday, Sep 9, 16 @ 10:26 am
It’s only true if Madigan’s spokesman first leaked it, so he could deny it too. If they met for lunch to discuss this, they’d be in a tree fort by Midway to ensure jet noise.

Suspect is a good word for this all the way around.

Comment by A guy Friday, Sep 9, 16 @ 10:42 am
The lunch story puts it all in the fantasy category.

Sneed is sometimes a word-cartoonist.

Comment by walker Friday, Sep 9, 16 @ 11:36 am
Now the ILGOP is hearing voices, too. Raunerism is catching!

Comment by Anon221 Friday, Sep 9, 16 @ 12:12 pm
Emanuel and Madigan, shooting the breeze over lunch downtown, while Sneed’s spy listens in.

Sure.

Comment by Anonymous Friday, Sep 9, 16 @ 12:22 pm
===But the Chicago Sun-Times reports today:===

An entire news room just shuddered in horror.

Comment by 47th Ward Friday, Sep 9, 16 @ 12:38 pm
The ILGOP might better create PR credibility by dealing with higher level-issues, and letting local campaigns play at the rumor-mongering level.

Did anyone actually believe Team Madigan had nothing to do with challenging the Fair Maps petition effort? If there’s any hay to be made here, it would be around Term Limits and Rahm.

Comment by walker Friday, Sep 9, 16 @ 12:47 pm
==An entire news room just shuddered in horror.==

Yep, all 4 of them.

Comment by A guy Friday, Sep 9, 16 @ 1:05 pm
Gee, who might benefit (other than the GOP) from making up and/or planting a story like this? Could it be Pat Quinn?

Comment by Ron Burgundy Friday, Sep 9, 16 @ 2:00 pm
Can’t we just agree, beginning with the “Cutback Amendment,” that any referendum from Pat Quinn will have (1) superficial appeal and (2) massive unexpected consequences?

Comment by 39th Ward Friday, Sep 9, 16 @ 2:24 pm