Illinois Rep. Mike Bost flips his lid over pension legislation
The polite version: Illinois Rep. Mike Bost is not happy about the legislative process surrounding current pension legislation, and he's not shy about expressing his mind.
The less-polite version: this dude just had a meltdown.
Check out this video of Bost, a Murphysboro Republican, on the floor of the Illinois House of Representatives as members were discussing a pension bill that had cleared committee Tuesday morning.
Warning: salty language and paper tossing ahead.
I particularly enjoy the reactions of the legislators sitting near him, especially the guy to his right who has that look on his face of someone sitting at a dinner table where a couple is having a very ugly argument and wishing that a hole would open in the universe and just swallow him whole.
The pension bill Bost is raging against (actually he's raging against the rules for debate on the bill) passed a House committee Tuesday and may be heard by the whole chamber today before going back to the Senate for a vote. Stay tuned, and if you're on the floor of the General Assembly, wear a helmet.