He doesn’t talk often, but in this case, it’s like he’s channeling Daley:
“He’s got a personal relationship with me. So when he calls, I take his call,” Madigan said of Scott before the election.
“If I get a call from the mayor of Peoria, I may not take it; I may not return it. I don’t even know who he is, the mayor of Peoria. I don’t know his name. I don’t know who the mayor of Champaign is. I don’t know the mayor of Rock Island. I don’t know the mayor of Kankakee. I don’t know the mayor of Carbondale or Edwardsville. I know Doug Scott. I know a lot of mayors in the southwest suburbs of Chicago; that’s my neighborhood.”
But on Tuesday, as Madigan exited a luncheon in downtown Springfield, he volunteered that he had talked to Larry Morrissey, Rockford’s new mayor.
“We’ll work together,” Madigan said.
But we all know, Steve Brown knows who these guys are….