Too bad there's little in your head.

Illinois Democrats are here to save all us incompetents from ourselves. Now if only someone could save us from these liberal assholes with their nanny-state view of society. Cullerton openly announces that he's willing to achieve the desired level of control by incrementally squeezing out our liberties.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. • Will Illinois join the growing number of states to ban cellphone usage while driving?

Nine states already ban handheld cellphone usage by all drivers, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association. Missouri isn't among them, and doesn't seem to be headed in that direction. But Illinois Senate President John Cullerton thinks Illinois may join them—eventually.

"There's not the political will for it right now . . . (but) I think it's something that might be inevitable," Cullerton, a Chicago Democrat, told reporters in a Springfield news conference this morning. "These are the kinds of things you take incrementally. It could be something down the line."

The "political will" issue is a good point. For all its touted political moderation, Illinois has a libertarian streak when it comes to rules of the road.
After a jogger was killed a few years ago by a teen driver who was poking at her cellphone, for example, legislators reacted to the public outcry by banning texting while driving—but just texting, not the other umpteen things you can do with a cellphone that are also distracting (and which look the same to a cop while the driver is doing it, thus rendering the no-text law virtually unenforceable). The state's most recent contribution to road safety is a new law that—seriously—allows motorcyclists to run red lights if they fail to switch green within a "reasonable" time.

But Cullerton noted that even in Illinois, once-controversial ideas like seat belt requirements and child restraints have been fully accepted by the driving public. Cullerton himself last year sponsored the state's new rear-seltbelt law.
Also, Illinois does ban cellphone usage in construction and school zones, and by novice drivers. (Missouri's only restriction is on texting by minors.)
Cullerton indicated he personally would favor a cellphone ban, and would extend it to hands-free phones as well—something no state currently does for all drivers. Cullerton cited evidence that it's just as distracting as a hand-held phone. "It's not what's in your hand, it's what's in your head," he said.
The General Assembly is scheduled to convene its spring session Jan. 31.

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