Legislators sent the governor a proposal to put on the fall ballot an advisory question asking voters whether health insurance companies in Illinois should be required to provide birth control as part of their coverage plans. That\u2019s already law in Illinois, prompting Republicans to claim the move by Democrats to encourage women to turn out at the polls. Quinn said he\u2019ll sign it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now, I\u2019ll be curious how this\u2019ll play out in the fall. \u00a0Will the Democrats insinuate that there\u2019s a real threat to mandated contraception coverage? \u00a0How far will they go? \u00a0Are they banking on large numbers of genuinely massively uninformed voters?<\/p>\n
Wow. \u00a0Just wow.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In Illinois, the voters have a very limited ability to place legislation on the ballot \u2014 only via constitutional amendments with a rather high signature requirement (and, as is happening now with the Independent Maps initiative, significant opportunities for politicians to play hardball with amendments they oppose). \u00a0Politicians, on the other hand, have free reign, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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