Colvin makes press!
The Daily Illini, the official paper of the University of Illinois covered and reported on the visit of State Representative Marlow Colvin. I'll give you more of reason to look it up, yours truly is quoted. http://www.dailyillini.com/ (The article should post online after noon.)I will devote some cyberspace to comments on the article and those who attended.
Thank you St. Rep. for making time and everyone look for our next lecture. It will be held Spring Semester and our guest will be a member of the other chamber.
posted by Kris Anderson @ 9:44 AM
4 Comments:
I attended Rep. Colvin's talk. It is refreshing to hear from a politician whose comments are not contrived and intentionally ambiguous. I respond positively to politicians who speak familiarly; I envision them to be more sympathetic to my concerns as a voter. The disconnect between some pols and their constituents is worrisome. Rep. Colvin puts that concern to bed. Nice talk!
I enjoyed Colvin's straight forward and personable style. Its good to see a politician that seems genuinely concerned with identifying and addressing the needs of his constituents. I would like to learn more about the education inititiave he spoke about.
St. Rep. Colvin gave an interesting speech. I loved his familiar story of a young man working his way up in Chicago politics. I enjoyed the policy dicsussion and was especially fascinated by the look he afforded inside Illinois' Congressional Black Caucus. He seems to take great pleasure in the sort of wonky, technocratic aspects of government (without ever losing the personal touch) and I think he must be a very effective advocate and champion for his constituents, which is the highest compliment I can pay to a politician.
It was nice of Rep Colvin to come down and share his political views with us. He spent a great deal of his speech addressing the disadvantages of caps on jury awards for medical malpractice because in his opinion there is a disparity between the awards given to different racial groups. While I agree that there is a ridiculous disproportion in jury awards based on race and class, I don’t understand why this wouldn’t make a bigger case for caps. The representative used an example of a white woman and a black woman that had nearly identical cases yet the white woman got like $80 million as opposed to the black woman’s $600,000. He mentioned that the cap would be around $1 million. The cap seems to narrow the gap tremendously. You would think that if the current system is failing to award fairly the Representative would be the first in line for some kind of reform! Maybe it was just me that failed to see his connection :| Overall I thought Rep Colvin had a nice “real” speech.
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