Althoff Called Out by Sun-Times for Sponsoring Bill Favored by Firm that Hired Her as Lobbyist

Here’s a headline no retired legislator would want to see:

Chicago Sun-Times headline about Pam Althoff


The story in the Chicago Sun-Times is about then-Senator Pam Althoff having sponsored a bill supported by Enterprise Rent-a-Car during the spring session.

It lays that off against the retired legislator’s being hired as a lobbyist by the firm.


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Althoff Called Out by Sun-Times for Sponsoring Bill Favored by Firm that Hired Her as Lobbyist — 17 Comments

  1. Richie Durbin has voted for legislation that has benefitted his lobbyist wife, so no big deal with Pam right?

  2. This is Senate Bill 2641 (SB 2641) in the 100th General Assembly.

    The Governor has several suggestions in his veto that were incorporated into creating a Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing Act.

    One of the problems the rental car companies face, similar to taxis and hotels, is all the state and local government taxes, fees, and regulations that were placed on them over the decades, put them at a competitive disadvantage when innovation surfaces.

    ++++++++++++

    Illinois Policy Institute

    Illinois lawmakers team up with rental car companies seeking to squeeze out competitors

    By Eddie Damstra

    June 1, 2018

    illinoispolicy.org/illinois-lawmakers-team-up-with-rental-car-companies-seeking-to-squeeze-out-competitors

  3. When will the voters figure it all out?

    Probably never at current rates.

  4. To clarify, the Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing Act is a proposal included in the veto…it is not law.

  5. Why can’t McHenry County commenters disagree without using horribly degrading, sexist words?

    Could it be bacause Senator Althoff is a woman?

    Your ignorance is showing!

  6. How about being more polite?

    We can disagree about issues, even corruption, without vulgar insults.

    I’d suggest only language that you would say in person or in front of your mother in postings.

    It’s likely I’ll get slammed now as a “paid troll,”Left wing libtard,” and “NAZI, commie, atheist, jew, muslim, section 8, wet back.” (Did I miss any?) I’m just an old veteran who loves his country and my fellow citizens. Even though they do and say things I don’t like.

    Lastly, I’d like to apologize for any posting of mine that have been offensive.

  7. Okay, she’s NOT a whore but she certainly can be accused of prostitution of a sort. No sex involved other than the business interests she may have f**ked.

    verb: prostitute; 3rd person present: prostitutes; past tense: prostituted; past participle: prostituted; gerund or present participle: prostituting

    1.
    offer (someone) for sexual activity in exchange for payment.
    “although she was paid $15 to join a man at his table, she never prostituted herself”

    put (oneself or one’s talents) to an unworthy or corrupt use or purpose for the sake of personal or financial gain.
    “his willingness to prostitute himself to the worst instincts of the electorate”
    synonyms: betray, sacrifice, sell, sell out, debase, degrade, demean, devalue, cheapen, lower, shame, misuse, pervert; a

  8. She’s a whore all right, just like RINO-Reick!

    One more facelift and she’ll have a goatee!

  9. Flatearth, just bc Ex-Sen. Althoff is woman should not immunize her from accurate descriptions about what she really is. If she was a man, the same criticisms would apply.

    She IS a whore, because she sold herself (and us) out for moolah.

    That’s what a whore does. Males cam be whores, too. Like Obama did in Hawaii as a teen at the exclusive Punahou School. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/barack-obama-gay-hustler-_n_4242447.html

    “A woman who claims to have been a classmate delivered some bizarre claims about President Barack Obama in an interview.
    As Right Wing Watch first reported, Mia Marie Pope told right-wing preacher James David Manning that she believes that Obama was not only active within the gay community, but also a heavy cocaine user during his years in Hawaii.
    “He always portrayed himself as a foreign student,” Pope said. “Girls were never anything that he ever was interested in … He would get with these older white gay men, and this is how we just pretty much had the impression that that’s how he was procuring his cocaine.”
    She then notes, “In other words, he was having sex with these older white guys and that’s how he was getting this cocaine to be able to freebase.”

    Pope, of course, isn’t the first conservative voice to make such claims about the president’s personal life. In May, “Coach” Dave Daubenmire implied Obama was “openly gay” or “better yet, openly bisexual” in a News With Views broadcast, nothing that the president’s “face seems to really light up when he begins to talk about the gay agenda.””

  10. Hey Joe, take off your rose colored glasses.

    If reality is too much for you, why don’t you join the Oprah fan club.

  11. Whether she’s a pig or a whore, it’s all academic. She represents everything wrong with the Illinois GOP and Illinois politics in general.

    She used to brag she was born on a pool table.

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