Opinion

Wrong time for politics

Posted April 03, 2020 1:00 am

Congresswomen Jan Schakowsky should be ashamed of herself for seeking additional funding for (among other pork projects) Planned Parenthood in the coronavirus rescue bill.

Medical facilities, health care workers and providers, small and large businesses and all workers in so much need didn't need the partisan bickering for their own pet projects added to a bill that had full Senate approval a week earlier. You'll have plenty of days ahead to legislate Congresswomen Schakowsky, but this was not the time do it.

Folks just hanging on will now have to wait a week longer because some politicians would "never let a crisis go to waste."

I'm also wondering if our Gov. Pritzker's family will be prevented from accepting any financial help for their Hyatt Hotels as President Trumps family business has with his Trump Hotels?

Tim Hurley

Arlington Heights

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