The next gathering of legislative eagles was a solemn-high affair, an organized interrogation of legislators by parents at Oak Park’s Percy Julian middle school on Oct. 9, 2013.

The Oak Park schools superintendent cheerily greeted the assembled “citizenry” who had come for the “festivities,” which had been many months in the planning.

He welcomed the legislators — two senators and two representatives — who had come to be questioned by three schools-connected women, probably each a mother of a student.

He further noted “gridlock in Washington” as a problem, ignoring the recently concluded Springfield version, in which legislators were locked in combat about state pension reform. Indeed, they had only recently received their two months’ late pay checks, with interest, after a judge had ruled the governor out of order in cutting them off to get them to stop disagreeing with each other.

Additionally, the citizenry had not materialized as expected…