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Gov. Pritzker stops short of assessing Speaker Welch’s leadership amid Illinois House harassment fallout

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By Rick Pearson Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Moments after being hailed by his lieutenant governor as a "champion for all women," Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker declined Friday to offer an opinion on House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch's leadership or whether Welch's public responses have adequately addressed his handling of sexual harassment complaints against former state Rep. Harry Benton. Instead, the Democratic governor called for the Illinois House to move "very quickly" on new procedures for handling such complaints.
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Speaker Welch told lawmakers he backed Harry Benton’s reelection to prevent loss of union support

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By Rick Pearson Verified, Jeremy Gorner Verified
| Yahoo Verified
A year after his office was told of then-state Rep. Harry Benton's sexual harassment by a district office staffer, House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch assisted the now-disgraced former lawmaker's 2024 reelection campaign with $1.4 million to prevent Benton from actively working to curb organized labor support to the speaker's war chest, the Tribune has learned.
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An ex-staffer and the Illinois speaker: 2 differing responses to the Harry Benton harassment report

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By Rick Pearson Verified, Jeremy Gorner Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Following the release on Friday of the Illinois legislative inspector general's long-awaited investigatory report concluding that disgraced former state Rep. Harry Benton's sexual harassment of women violated state law, there were two notable, and pointedly opposite, responses.
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