My note: Madison County, in the Metro East part of the state, (Illinois side of the St. Louis suburbs), has been called a "judicial hellhole" by tort reform supporters.
From the Illinois Leader:
IL MEDIA UNSPUN: The President came to Illinois? When? Friday, January 14, 2005
By Arlen Williams
OPINION - In his first official trip of 2005, President Bush made a special visit to Illinois, to deliver an address on critical healthcare legislation. Did the Illinois media let you know? Just checking.
On Wednesday the 5th of this month and for the first time in history, a sitting President visited Collinsville. He came to address the area of the country singled out as the most egregious example of physicians being either driven out of business or away from their patients due to outrageously excessive medical malpractice suits and the extremely high liability insurance that doctors must pay as a result.
On the political side, this will become perhaps the first major test of the ability of President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Frist, and Illinois' own Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, to enact major legislation in support of common sense and compassionate conservatism, in the new Congress.
The Chicago Tribune deigned to publish an article about the event -- on page nine. Sometimes, it's not what you say but where you say it.
Oh, you may have read that page nine, or even caught the event on page one in some downstate newspapers. You may have even seen thirty seconds of TV news coverage, sometime between 10:10 and 10:18, that evening.
http://www.illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=22000
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