News Analysis: Lake County Sheriff Not Seeking Popular Vote on Undocumented Immigrant Issue
Sheriff Mark Curran, who supports bill requiring all Illinois motorists be licensed and insured, explains he feels it's the right thing to do.
Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran is used to getting hate mail. His unorthodox approach and views, like spending a week in the county jail to bring attention to conditions, have garnered him plenty of hate mail. But Curran doesn’t care, he said. He’s just trying to do the right thing. And so, he’s backing a state bill that may not be wildly popular but a law that Curran feels would make roads safer. He has joined with the Highway Safety Coalition to lobby for a bill requiring all Illinois motorists be licensed and insured, including undocumented immigrants. One reason he wants to see the General Assembly pass a bill sponsored by Illinois Senate President John Cullerton and House Rep. Edward Acevedo, is there are 250,000 undocumented …
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Dave Bell
10:59 pm on Monday, November 26, 2012
Excellent points all Stevie!!! Unfortunately it seems all too common for elected officials, once in office, to believe they themselves are above the law, better than the rest of us who put them there, thus entitling them to elitist, condescending discretionary/dictatorial power vis-a-vis selective law enforcement and even defiance of the democratic process, e.g., Obama's recent "executive amnesty… more ›