Capitol Fa - Your Illinois News Radar » Welch on Crespo: ‘I Can’t Allow Someone to Go Rogue and Be an individual’CapitolFax.com

Editorial: House Speaker Chris Welch went too far. Rep. Fred Crespo is good for Illinois. – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo

"So Crespo — who’s served in Springfield for 18 years, six years longer than Welch himself — is now a Democratic Party member in exile for not being a 'team player.' The unmistakable message: in Welch’s House of Representatives, Democratic moderates who think for themselves and question their own party’s orthodoxies are unwelcome."

Capitol Fa - Your Illinois News Radar » Welch on Crespo: ‘I can’t allow someone to go rogue and be an individual’CapitolFax.com

* My weekly syndicated newspaper column… Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch took the extraordinary actions last week of permanently kicking Rep. Fred Crespo, D-Hoffman Estates, out of the House Democratic caucus, stripping him of his legislative staff, removing him from his Appropriations Committee chair position and booting him from the bicameral Legislative Audit Commission. Welch also [...]

It’s Speaker Welch’s Fingerprints on the Blade Sticking Out of Fred

House Speaker Chris Welch took the extraordinary actions last week of permanently kicking Representative Fred Crespo (D-Hoffman Estates) out of the House Democratic caucus, stripping him of his legislative staff, removing him from his appropriations committee chair’s position, and booting him from the bicameral Legislative Audit Commission.

MILLER: Speaker Welch whacks appropriations chair for going "rogue" – Muddy River News

House Speaker Chris Welch took the extraordinary actions last week of permanently kicking Rep. Fred Crespo (D- Hoffman Estates) out of the House Democratic caucus, stripping him of his legislative staff, removing him from his appropriations committee chair’s position and booting him from the bicameral Legislative Audit Commission.Speaker Welch also suspended a Democratic staffer who reportedly helped Crespo prepare an alternative budget plan, wh…