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Title: Veteran lawmaker makes suggestive comments to freshman
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Chicago Sun Times
URL Source: http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/hendon27.html
Published: Mar 28, 2006
Author: BY JOHN O'CONNOR ASSOCIATED PRESS
Post Date: 2006-03-28 13:06:50 by Zipporah
Keywords: None
Views: 369
Comments: 14
SPRINGFIELD -- A veteran state senator made sexually suggestive comments to a freshman colleague Monday during the ritual "hazing" that occurs in debate over a rookie's first bill. Republican Cheryl Axley of Mount Prospect was offering legislation on road maintenance by township governments when Assistant Democratic Leader Rickey Hendon of Chicago suggested that Axley go "on a township road with me later on tonight." The presiding officer of the chamber, Sen. Debbie Halvorson of Crete, said the question was inappropriate and told Axley she was not obliged to answer. Hendon then replied, "Madame President, don't deny me my opportunity, here. I mean, she looks like she's only 16 or 17, I might be able to trick her, or something." "All the more reason you shouldn't be asking," Halvorson said. It has long been tradition for members of the General Assembly to "haze" newcomers when they present their first piece of legislation, peppering them with innocuous or highly technical questions. Other senators grilled Axley about the number of miles of township-maintained roads in the state and whether she'd traveled them all. Axley, 46, who was appointed to fill the position of retiring Sen. Dave Sullivan, said "the girls tipped me off" that hazing comes with the territory and said she wasn't surprised or offended. "It was all in fun. Every freshman is hazed in that matter," Axley said. Asked whether men undergo the same treatment, Axley said, "I don't know. I'll keep my eye open next spring." Hendon, who also asked Axley whether her hair is naturally blonde, denied his comments were "over the line" or sexually suggestive. "It was funny, I was trying to be funny. If anybody took offense, it was only you. She certainly didn't," Hendon, 52, a senator since 1993 and co-chairman of the Executive Appointments Committee, said when contacted later. "You jab, that's what you do to rookies." When asked about his comment that Axley looks like a teenager and he might "trick" her, Hendon said, "She looks young. What's bad about that? What's over the line about saying she looks young? That's a compliment, actually." Halvorson said she interrupted Hendon several times because she thought he had gone too far. "He means nothing by it. That's his way," Halvorson said. "He likes to be funny; unfortunately, we might have to give him a little training." "Everybody got caught up in the moment," Halvorson said. "And everybody knows that Sen. Axley is a beautiful, young woman, and sometimes men don't think about what it (a comment) looks like."
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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)
Just another instance of a darkie trying for another trophy white woman. Nothing to see here folks. Move along.
“If a nation or an individual values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too.” W. Somerset Maugham
I had no clue who he was.. Talk about inappropriate?!
Not like that you jerk.
”We have room but for one flag... We have room but for one language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty, and that is the loyality to the American people.” - Theodore Roosevelt
I knew exactly who he was. Hendon was a Chicago alderman for a number of years also. This is typical of the goings on in the Windy City.
“If a nation or an individual values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too.” W. Somerset Maugham
Everyone I know in real life, or even here, would have at least been fired for something like that. I got punched in the shoulder by a mall security guy for something eerily dissimilar.
Thanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business. Thanks for a nation of finks. Yes, thanks for all the memories-- all right let's see your arms!- William S Burroughs
absolutely!!... Do tell about your experience.. sounds like a story worth telling ;P
Ah..okay.. thanks!
Not like that you jerk. sounds like he'd be great at a university hazing..
It was nothing, really, a guy goofing around trips over a 3 x 16' strip of carpet and instinctually grabbed at me on the way down. I thought he was trying to kill me (came from behind, I had no idea what was going on) so I started screaming and ran to a better lit part of the mall. If I remember right I was drinking Southern Comfort that day.
Thanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business. Thanks for a nation of finks. Yes, thanks for all the memories-- all right let's see your arms!- William S Burroughs
ROFL!!!.. hahahaha!!.. well that mustve been traumatic..nearly scarred for life I bet.. What were you chasing the SC with?
Drinking fountains. Oasis were the best!
Thanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business. Thanks for a nation of finks. Yes, thanks for all the memories-- all right let's see your arms!- William S Burroughs
You know what would be cool.. if water fountains would dispense Southern Comfort ..now that would be a real Oasis..
Now I can't stop thinking about Paris and Nichole in their Sonic Milkshake costumes rolling around the floor of the mini-mart. God people were angry... :)
Thanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business. Thanks for a nation of finks. Yes, thanks for all the memories-- all right let's see your arms!- William S Burroughs
Thats what dreams are made of Sonic nights... Anything like Boogie Nights??
Illinois Sen. Rickey Hendon
#2. To: BTP Holdings (#1)
#3. To: Zipporah (#0)
"You jab, that's what you do to rookies."
#4. To: Zipporah (#2)
I had no clue who he was.. Talk about inappropriate?!
#5. To: Zipporah (#2)
I had no clue who he was.. Talk about inappropriate?!
#6. To: Dakmar (#5)
Everyone I know in real life, or even here, would have at least been fired for something like that. I got punched in the shoulder by a mall security guy for something eerily dissimilar.
#7. To: BTP Holdings (#4)
I knew exactly who he was. Hendon was a Chicago alderman for a number of years also. This is typical of the goings on in the Windy City.
#8. To: robin (#3)
"You jab, that's what you do to rookies."
#9. To: Zipporah, Mind Virus, lodwick (#6)
#10. To: Dakmar (#9)
It was nothing, really, a guy goofing around trips over a 3 x 16' strip of carpet and instinctually grabbed at me on the way down. I thought he was trying to kill me (came from behind, I had no idea what was going on) so I started screaming and ran to a better lit part of the mall. If I remember right I was drinking Southern Comfort that day.
#11. To: Zipporah (#10)
What were you chasing the SC with?
#12. To: Dakmar (#11)
Drinking fountains. Oasis were the best!
#13. To: Zipporah (#12)
#14. To: Dakmar (#13)
Now I can't stop thinking about Paris and Nichole in their Sonic Milkshake costumes rolling around the floor of the mini-mart. God people were angry... :)
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