The Republicans file for a governor’s race recount, hobbling Tom’s ability to push his agenda the Robinson administration’s effort to streamline state operations runs afoul of obscure legal strictures the budget bogs down a battle royal over redrawing legislative districts opens up an abyss of partisan jockeying and the education reform bill faces a constitutional challenge by the ACLU (for good reason, as the bill would force high school dropouts to go to school, enter the Army, or do some volunteer gig like AmeriCorps, which sounds like involuntary servitude). Alas, sinister cabals of Democrats and Republicans gather to thwart the party’s program of government ethics, sound budgets, and education reform. In this continuing saga, the upstart E Party-for Ethics, Economy, and Education-has won a smashing election victory, picking up the Illinois governorship for its dark horse candidate, Baseball Hall-of-Famer Tom Robinson four of six statewide offices and the balance of power in the state legislature.
An idealistic third party braves the snake pit of Illinois politics in this second volume of a sprawling trilogy on statehouse skullduggery.
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