Thursday, February 10, 2011

Editorial: No tolerance for attempts to keep taxpayer business secret |

The workers compensation case is for a state trooper injured while traveled down the highway at  126 miles an hour, sending an e-mail and at the same time talking on the phone to your girlfriend.  Oh yes—his speeding car killed  two young Collinsville sisters  injuring two others.

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Belleville News-Democrat, using the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, obtained thousands of e-mails between Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission arbitrator Jennifer Teague, Mitchell's lawyer and an assistant attorney general that paint a clear picture of subterfuge.

It’s time for Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission Chairman Mitch Weisz to launch a thorough — and open — investigation into this and Teague’s other actions as arbitrator.

It’s time for the attorney general’s office to find out whether one of its own officers should have blown a whistle early on about what was happening.

It’s time for the state’s Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to consider whether the actions on behalf of the attorneys warrants discipline.

It’s time to send a message that seems to keep getting drowned out in Illinois: The business of government is the business of taxpayers and there should be nothing less than transparency, honesty and openness.

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