From the Bloomington Pantagraph:
As state lawmakers near a deal, Senate President Emil Jones credits himself for ensuring customers will see discounts on their soaring electric rates.
Jones said Tuesday at the Capitol that consumers wouldn’t see the benefits of a $1 billion rate relief package — the details of which are being finalized — if he hadn’t stopped the rate freeze that House Speaker Michael Madigan and others pushed to provide consumers relief.
I’ve got two pieces of unsolicited advice for Mr. Jones:
- Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched. Nothing has passed yet, and in politics anything can happen.
- Don’t break your arm patting yourself on the back.
Emil Jones-in his hiring and obtaining jobs for family, as well as his conflict of interest with Commonwealth Edison, is a disgrace to citizens of Illinois, black and white. But, keep him in there Chicago, you get what you deserve.
That’s a joke. Illinois consumers will get less relief because of Jones.