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Illinois House speaker wants to fire 3,000 state workers

All holdovers from Ryan, Blagojevich administrations

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[May 08, 2009]  SPRINGFIELD (AP) -- Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan wants to "fumigate" state government by firing thousands of people who were hired by two disgraced former governors.

InsuranceMadigan announced Thursday that he has introduced legislation to fire agency directors, board members and other appointees picked by George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich.

He says about 3,000 people could be affected.

Under Madigan's plan, the appointees would keep their jobs for 60 days while a review is conducted. After that, they would be out of work unless new Gov. Pat Quinn reappoints them.

Madigan says he's taking this action because Quinn isn't moving fast enough to clean up state government.

Quinn says he supports the idea.

The bill is HB4450.

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On the Net:  www.ilga.gov

[Associated Press]

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