The state house commission investigating House Speaker Mike Madigan’s alleged bribery scandal involving ComEd was officially put on hold last week until after the November election, but Vermilion County’s representative in the house says the public has a right to know the truth of what happened.
State Representative Mike Marron tells Vermilion County First News he thinks people should know exactly what happened and that Madigan should answer questions about his involvement in the case.
“I think we need to get to the bottom of what happened between Speaker Madigan and ComEd, and I think the quicker we can do that, the better,” he says. “I think the speaker’s got some pretty serious questions to answer, and the public needs to know about it.”
Marron says he supports some criminal justice reform but does not want the state legislature to change it entirely. Last week, Governor J.B. Pritzker outlined proposed changes to the state’s criminal justice system, which includes ending cash bail and the support of rehabilitation rather than simply incarceration.
“I’m not opposed to criminal justice reform on certain levels,” he explained. “I think there’s definitely things that we can be doing better. I get a little bit nervous about scrapping the entire system.”
The general assembly is set to reconvene in Springfield for its fall veto session November 17th through 19th and December 1st through 3rd.
