Two Illinois state boards that deal with issues of crime and law enforcement are facing vacancy problems.
Earlier this week, Pritzker tried to brush aside questions about the vacancies, saying the board posts “shouldn’t be politicized.”
Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks during a news conference at the Thompson Center in Chicago on Feb. 9, 2022. One vacancy on the police merit board comes because board member Karen McNaught resigned when she recently accepted a position as a U.S. magistrate. But complicating matters is that Pritzker dumped two previous appointees, including the chairman, Andrew Berlin, shortly after the quasi-independent board chose a new executive director, Emily Fox. She was promoted from program director.
As Thornley was being investigated internally over allegations of padding her paycheck with bogus overtime, she accused Jack Garcia, the former executive director, of sexual misconduct — a charge he denied. [Most read] In Chicago, Obama warns that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a warning of how ‘flabby’ and ‘feckless’ democracy has becomeWhile it is rare for the state Senate to reject a governor’s appointees to state agencies, particularly when the Senate majority is the same political party as the governor’s, the issue became a focal point last month for Prisoner Review Board nominees when several moderate Senate Democrats agreed with Republicans that two nominees were too lenient in some of...
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