Lisa Madigan promises
progress
on Pilgrim Baptist litigation
Part Four of Four.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan, my daughter Dawn and me,
at the Gay Pride Parade in Chicago on Sunday, June 28,
2009.
OK ... who's more beautiful, Lisa or Dawn? You're right:
It's a tie.
Photo by my wife, Celeste. Click on picture for
larger image.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan and her staff have
promised me that progress should be made, soon,
regarding my litigation to stop Rod Blagojevich's State
grant of one million of your tax dollars to Pilgrim
Baptist Church.
The grant was promised by Rod to Pilgrim
Baptist after incompetent, uninsured, non-union roofers
screwed up and burned the church to the ground in
January, 2006.
The litigation has been on hold for about a year. It
should have been settled, long ago.
At the Gay Pride Parade,
Lisa and her staff told me that they can't do anything
regarding the Pilgrim Baptist litigation until
Governor Quinn
indicates how he wants the matter resolved.
At Pat Quinn's and
Lisa's news conference on transparency in government
on Monday, August 17th, Governor Quinn told me, as
reported in
Part Three of this series, that Pat thought that
Lisa could make all of the decisions, so the ball was in
Lisa's court.
After the August 17th news conference, I met with
Lisa and asked her, "Where do we go from here? After
all, Pat's the client, so it's his decision, but he
thinks that it's your decision."
Lisa was not pleased that I had brought up pending
litigation at a news conference. She's right, of
course, but this thing hadn't moved for about a year,
and there was no prospect of that changing, ever, but
now we knew why: Lisa was waiting for Pat to make the
next move and Pat was waiting for Lisa to make the next
move. Only by bringing up the issue at the news
conference were we able to establish what the problem
was in making progress to resolving the litigation.
Lisa and her staff acknowledged to me that the
problem had now clearly been identified. They assured
me that, now that the problem of the double message had
been identified, they should be able to resolve the
delay very soon.
I was assured that Lisa's team would work on the
situation, right away, and get back to me with an answer
in the very near future.
I'll keep you posted.
