(The Center Square) – An Illinois state legislator says Senate President Don Harmon’s Democratic National Convention comments about unions are an admission of “quid pro quo.”
Harmon delivered remarks at the DNC in Chicago for the Illinois delegation’s breakfast.
“Democrats don’t win without organized labor and organized labor puts everything at risk when Democrats don’t win,” said Harmon, D-Oak Park. “We gotta stick together.”
State Rep. Dan Caulkins, R-Decatur, explained how top Democrats, like Harmon, wouldn’t allow the Invest in Kids Act renewal bill to be called this legislative session because it wasn’t favorable to public school teachers unions, who are large contributors to the Democrats’ campaigns.
“They were afraid of the teachers unions withholding funding for their candidates [if they were to renew the Invest in Kids tax credit],” said Caulkins. “Local 150 is a heavy funder of Democrats, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the unions are the money flowing into the Democratic coffers.”