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"an aside: I still don't get why IL Conservatives are for SB600 when all the major cosponsors are Democrats. When IL Democrats all of a sudden want to 'help' IL republicans I automatically think something is up. YES the current system stinks and protects the Combine cronies, but with Dems leading the way to correct this, it just seems really really odd. Especially when Conservative Republicans have withdrew as cosponsors."

Eh, that seems like a valid point. But I fail to see how the bill isn't a good thing.

I was indifferent on the bill for a while, since Maureen Murphy was my Representative on the SSC and she was a good anti-Topinka conservative type who would win by big margins whether GOP voters or precinct captains were doing the voting. But I still supported SB600 at the time because I could see how it would benefit other conservatives around the state.

The claim that every co-sponsor of the bill is a RAT is not true. Chris Lauzen is one of the main forces behind this bill, and there are other prominent Republicans in his camp. Unfortunately not many in the GOP leadership want to follow his lead, probably because they're afraid of repercussions from the party bosses.

Yes, many RATs sponsor this bill, but so what? It has to do with structural government procedures, not idealogical policy battles. The RATs support it because their party structure is set up that way, it's the IL GOP that deviated from the norm. Being wary of this because the RATs like it would be like saying recall laws are a bad idea because RATs were the ones that put in the books.