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   From: absolute-moron@cookcountygov.com   
      
   Illinois Democrats would like to put the whole mess of Gov. Pat   
   Quinn’s troubled anti-violence program behind them as quickly as   
   possible, so much so that they have forgotten one of Yogi   
   Berra’s greatest maxims:   
      
   It ain’t over ’til it’s over.   
      
   I hate to break it to Rep. Bob Rita, D-Blue Island, and Sen.   
   John Mulroe, D-Chicago, and whoever’s water they were carrying   
   Monday with a determined attempt to “bring closure” to a   
   legislative investigation of Quinn’s Neighborhood Recovery   
   Initiative.   
      
   But this issue isn’t going away anytime soon, and any effort to   
   short-circuit an investigation is only going to backfire.   
      
   To hear the Democrats tell it, everybody already knows the anti-   
   violence program was a problem, so much so that the state agency   
   that ran it, the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority, has   
   already been disbanded.   
      
   Coupled with the fact that federal prosecutors in Springfield   
   and the Cook County state’s attorney are conducting their own   
   investigations, they argue there’s nothing more for the   
   Legislature to do.   
      
   “What’s the endgame here? What are we going to accomplish?”   
   asked Rita in his best move-along, nothing-more-here-to-see   
   voice during a subcommittee meeting of the Legislative Audit   
   Commission.   
      
   “It was a long time ago,” Mulroe said of the program that ran   
   from 2010 through 2012. “What remedies are we seeking?”   
      
   Democrats eventually went along with Republicans by voting to   
   subpoena Barbara Shaw, the former executive director of the anti-   
   violence authority, to testify at the bipartisan panel’s next   
   hearing on July 16 and 17.   
      
   Then they one-upped the Republicans by helping push through   
   subpoenas for six other Quinn administration officials who   
   Republicans say were involved in the program. Republicans would   
   have preferred to call them to testify at a later date after   
   hearing what Shaw had to say.   
      
   http://politics.suntimes.com/article/springfield/dems-   
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