Why we call them Freedom-Haters - today's edition

As if Illinois didn't already have enough self-erected barriers to economic recovery:

After a heated debate, calls of racism, and shouting, the Illinois state House of Representatives voted to require all publicly held companies in the state to have at least one woman and one African-American on the company's corporate board.

State Rep. Chris Welch’s bill, which passed Friday, would require any publicly-traded company headquartered in the state to have at least one woman and at least one African-American on its corporate boards starting in 2021.

“No later than the close of the 2020 calendar year, a publicly held domestic or foreign corporation whose principal executive offices, according to the corporation's SEC 10-K form, are located in Illinois shall have a minimum of one female director and one African American director on its board of directors,” according to the text of the bill. It would allow boards to expand to meet the requirements.

It would require the Secretary of State to keep an online list of corporations that would show if a company is in compliance with the law.

The bill would also impose fines up to $300,000 for failure to comply.

Obviously, the primary layer of wrongness here is that of government telling private organizations how to conduct their affairs (something made possible by government having already gotten its foot in the door with measures like the minimum wage and the gathering momentum for paid family leave).

Then there's the plain fact that Leftists have no interest in a color-blind society or treating people as qualified or not for particular functions without regard to gender.

Most sewers of Leftism in post-America are found on the coasts. How did the Midwest wind up with such a fetid repository of all that is rotten?