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* If you’ve ever been to the 2nd Floor of the Stratton Building, you know that House members’ names are painted on the glass doors of the main hallway outside their respective offices.
For whatever reason, the House clerk’s office has been glacially slow to remove the names of former members and update them with new members. Elaine Nekritz resigned her House seat in October of 2017, but her name is still on her old door.
* These two names, however, are quite problematic. Former Rep. Jerry Long, you will recall, was abandoned by the House Republicans when he was accused of harassing a female staffer and lost his race last November. And former GOP Rep. Nick Sauer resigned in August of 2018 after being accused of using nude photos of a woman to catfish men on the Internet. He’s since been indicted on 12 counts for alleged “nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images.” I took this photo yesterday…
How difficult is it to tell somebody to scrape the names off the doors? It’s embarrassing.
* Meanwhile…
A least one House committee hearing had to be relocated Wednesday morning after a leak in a first floor restroom in the Illinois Capitol spread water through parts of the west wing.
The House Executive Committee was moved from its normal hearing room in 118 because of water on the floor outside of the room. The hearing was moved to 114 in the Capitol’s south wing.
Oy.
posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 10:33 am
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Ace sign company too busy with all the sign scraping at the agencies?
Comment by Norseman Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 10:42 am
I would think the reps that shared that office space with Long and Sauer would be hounding the Clerk’s office. Or maybe it’s the Clerk (a Dem) trolling the GOP
Comment by Just Observing Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 10:42 am
Two more examples of why we need a statewide construction program to invest and update our vital infrastructure.
Comment by Michelle Flaherty Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 10:45 am
Good point Just Observing. Someone could be slow playing changing this particular door because of the names on it.
Comment by Ron Burgundy Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 10:47 am
If Tim Makes were still the House Clerk this would have been done a long time ago.
(Snark, please don’t ban me)
Comment by Just Me 2 Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 10:48 am
===Or maybe it’s the Clerk (a Dem) trolling the GOP
===
Winner.
They’ll get to it. Eventually.
Comment by 47th Ward Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 10:51 am
That’s some branding ILGOP.
Do you have any guacamole left?
Comment by Henry Francis Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 10:51 am
Or maybe the oompa loompa previously tasked with changing the names is no longer with state government.
Declining workforce leads to declining function.
Comment by Honeybear Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 10:52 am
Rauner’s name has yet to be scraped from some facilities. Come on, come on down, sweet Virginia…
Comment by My New Handle Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 10:55 am
Perhaps a cost savings opportunity? Stop painting, start printing signs?
Comment by Fav human Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 11:00 am
–… a leak in a first floor restroom in the Illinois Capitol spread water through parts of the west wing.–
There are better ways to phrase that, but they wouldn’t conjure up nearly as many juvenile laughs from me.
Comment by wordslinger Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 11:01 am
Current office occupiers can’t find a razor blade to scrape the paint off the glass?
Hint: a straight edge paint scrapper razor blade in a plastic holder is only a dollar or two over at Ace Hardware or Harbor Freight.
Comment by RNUG Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 11:09 am
===still the House Clerk this would have been done a long time ago===
Mapes was clerk when Nekritz retired.
Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 11:10 am
–… a leak in a first floor restroom in the Illinois Capitol spread water through parts of the west wing.–
At least it was fresh water…..
Comment by Wylie Coyote Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 11:37 am
Fav human found the “waste, fraud, and abuse”
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 11:38 am
“a first floor restroom in the Illinois Capitol spread water through parts of the west wing.”
If only there was an expert on inoperable toilets nearby.
Comment by City Zen Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 11:51 am
““a first floor restroom in the Illinois Capitol spread water through parts of the west wing.”
A lot of us work in dumps, why should the Lege be any different? (partially snark)
Comment by Skeptic Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 12:08 pm
after a leak in a first floor restroom
Basically a weekly occurrence at the Thompson center.
Comment by anon Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 12:44 pm
I always found the names on the Stratton Building 2nd floor doors to be somewhat confusing as the names on the doors didn’t align with the respective Reps’ actual office doors. And certainly their assistants’ desk don’t always align either.
Comment by Colin O'Scopy Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 12:55 pm
I always find a visit to Springfield to be a eye opening experience. The best you can say is that while the legislature is starving small non-profits with meaningless fiscal compliance rules they are also not providing themselves decent working quarters. The worst you can say is that the capital an far too many government offices are embarrassing.
Comment by NeverPoliticallyCorrect Wednesday, Feb 27, 19 @ 1:41 pm