Ty Fahner, the bastard child of R. Eden Martin.
For years, it was R. Eden Martin leading the charge. Martin is a partner in the corporate law firm of Sidley and Austin and was president of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
When you wanted to hear what those who wanted to destroy public service unions had to say, you went to R. Eden Martin. If you wanted to know the plan the corporate tycoons of Chicago had for destroying public employee pensions, R. Eden Martin was the go-to guy.
As happens to us all, Martin has gotten on in years. He’s handed his scepter over to Ty Fahner.
Fahner is a partner in the other monster corporate law firm in town, Meyer Brown.
And Fahner is no Tea Party guy. He wouldn’t be caught dead with such rabble. No. Fahner was mentored by the moderate leaders of the Republican Party, former governors Jim Thompson and Jim Edgar. Both Thompson and Edgar keep their distance from the ideological right. They’re only concern is keeping business happy. They care about three things: money, money and money.
So when the head lawyer for the Democrats in Springfield wrote a long well-researched paper saying that any
