Gov. Pat Quinn wants you to know that he tried very, very hard to give voters the chance to impose term limits on lawmakers. Twenty years ago, that is.
Where’s he been lately?
Last week, the governor’s re-election campaign sent around a 1993 photo of Quinn — who was then the state treasurer, preparing to run for secretary of state — plugging his “Eight is Enough” amendment in front of a statue of a young Abraham Lincoln.
That amendment was knocked off the ballot by the Illinois Supreme Court in August 1994.