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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Nov 29, 2008 07:44pm |
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| Category | Editorial |
| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Tribune |
| News Date | Monday, October 6, 2008 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | How are you doing? Content with the Illinois culture of political sleaze? Happy to have so many FBI agents probing corruption that they'll next be renting whole floors under the Statehouse dome? Pleased that Illinois has, by far, more tax-eating units of government than any other state? Thrilled that the Illinois Senate refused to give you a route to recalling a certifiably inept governor?
Yes, elections are for throwing bums out. And there is another, painstaking way to try to amend the constitution. We've heard these and other reasons for voting against a convention.
But the insiders of both major parties have such a grip on the way legislative districts are drawn that they control most election outcomes. So they can spike proposed amendments that challenge their sovereignty. As the obliteration of the recall movement proved, no proposal to rock their cozy status quo gets out of the legislature so that mere citizens can vote it up or down.
We won't promise that those very same self-serving insiders—you know all their names—won't try to elect their buddies as delegates and manhandle a convention and bend the constitution ever closer to their selfish needs. Don't vote yes to call a new con-con because you think it will meet your needs, eliminate your complaints and stick it to the arrogant powers that be. You have no guarantee of an outcome you'll like.
Vote yes because if this referendum proposal fails, you do have a guarantee: The sweet-smiling panderers who run this mismanaged state will give you 20 more years of what you have now. |
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