Massive retreat by Madigan and Cross. Pension killer pulled off the floor. No vote this session.
This just in at 2PM.
Michael Madigan and Tom Cross, the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Illinois House, have pulled their teacher pension killer bill off the floor.
They promise to bring it back for the Fall Veto Session.
But they cannot hide the fact that a massive, grass-roots effort of teachers, bloggers, activists, retired teachers and the state’s public employee unions beat them bad. At least for the time being.
Never in Illinois history has there been such a mobilization around a piece of legislation.
Over 100,000 emails and 100,000 phone calls to legislators were delivered by teachers, both retired and active.
We’ll have more analysis in the days ahead.
Enjoy the victory.
Light the grill!