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IL GOP legislator to press charges over tussle with Democratic foe
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| Last Edited | COSDem Jun 04, 2011 09:27pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Sun-Times |
| News Date | Friday, June 3, 2011 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A Downstate Republican lawmaker vowed Wednesday to press criminal charges against a Democratic rival after a personality-driven debate on the Senate floor late Tuesday turned ugly.
Sen. Kyle McCarter (R-Lebanon) said he intends to ask the Sangamon County state’s attorney to file a criminal complaint against Sen. Mike Jacobs (D-East Moline) after McCarter said Jacobs “punched” him.
“As far as right now, I plan on placing charges. I just think his behavior shouldn’t be tolerated,” McCarter said.
Jacobs was kiddingly awarded a pair of boxing gloves by colleagues in 2007 after he claimed impeached ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich threatened to hit him during a closed-door meeting. Jacobs later told a Lee Enterprises reporter then that had Blagojevich been “in one of my local taverns, I would have kicked his rear end.”
This week’s fracas was triggered by McCarter’s remarks during debate over a Jacobs bill that would permit Commonwealth Edison and Ameren Corp. to raise rates to modernize their power grids. |
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