Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says her father’s job … as speaker of the Illinois House ... is a factor in whether she’d ever run for governor.
Madigan did not elaborate. But she stepped back from a possible 2014 bid, saying it would not be good for
Illinois to have two members of the same family in those positions.
Anyone seeking the governor’s office is asking to take on acute fiscal problems brought on by a political stalemate, piled on top of chronic underfunding and massive pension debt.
Despite that, Madigan says it’s a job she would be willing to do.
“It’s a tough job, I mean let’s not, you know. But it’s not an impossible job, right. There are so many important issues that the state needs to be working on that have not been attended to because of the budget problem, and because of the budget problem that has been created.”
Earlier, Madigan had slammed Republican Governor Bruce Rauner’s policies in a speech to the Illinois delegation at the Democratic National Convention.
Rauner has already said he plans to seek another term.
The attorney general’s dad is not only the longtime House Speaker; he’s also head of the Democratic Party of Illinois, and has become Rauner’s political nemesis.
The speaker would not say much about his daughter’s future and how it relates to him --- saying only that Lisa Madigan can, and should, do what she wants.
