To legislators, part of that scrub-down seemed obvious: Quinn would clean house of state appointees and other workers whose clout had won them top posts in the Blagojevich administration.
The new governor's actions backed that up; Quinn fired several high-level Blagojevich aides in his first few weeks on the job and followed up by replacing most of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees amid the school's clout-admissions scandal.
Since then, the purge appears to have slowed.
Today, despite a failed effort by House Speaker Michael Madigan to force Quinn "to accelerate the pace" of the housecleaning, dozens of high-ranking, top-paid hires from the Blagojevich era are managing to hold onto their state jobs.
There's an election next year.
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