Someone's afraid of tort reform

A vote of confidence: Stewart has the law on his side in Southern Illinois. He's also unlikely to be in favor of tort reform:

[Bruce Stewart's] campaign sure seems to be heavily wed to the litigation machine of Madison and St. Clair. In fact, the largest source of campaign financial support for Stewart (as reported to the State Board of Elections) is the Metro East -- 46.4% of his support.

And does this surprise you: 74.5% of Stewart's support comes from attorneys, mostly personal injury lawyers...

Stewart is.... conveniently forgetting that while [Stephen] McGlynn may not have trial court experience, he DOES have Appellate Court experience and, of course, that's what this election is all about.

If Bruce Stewart really is cut from a different bolt of cloth than the personal injury lawyers who dominate Madison and St. Clair courts and politics, he should renounce them. He should refuse to take money from them and he should return what he has received -- not just the money he's returned to Tom Lakin and his law firm but to all the Metro East trial lawyers..