The Knox County Democrat Organization will host Bruno Behrend, founder of The Illinois Citizens Coalition/”Yes” for Illinois and a representative of the Illinois Education Association at an upcoming “town hall” event.
It will be held at the Cherry Street Cafe, 57 Cherry Street, Galesburg, IL 61401.
Come and hear how voting “No” will endanger teachers’ (and other [...]
Lawrence Bruckner, 71st District State Representative, will be hosting a Town Hall meeting on Sunday, July 27th at his Thomson House Cafe on Route 84, one mile north of Thomson. It will be held from 2-4 PM and will feature discussions about, and proposed solutions for, the Thomson prison, high taxes and gas prices, and [...]
Bruno Behrend, Co-Founder of Illinois Citizens Coalition/”Yes” for Illinois, will appear on WJPF radio on Tuesday morning July 22nd at 8:20 AM on 1340 AM and 1020 AM. You can also listen LIVE across at Illinois at the WJPF website.
Mr. Behrend will also appear on Jim Muir’s show on Wednesday July 23rd, at [...]
With nearly every connected interest agreeing to lobby for keeping Illinois a corrupt cesspool as long as they get their phone calls returned, it is good to see that the print media has a better understanding of what is wrong in Illinois.
The Champaign News-Gazette endorsed a “Yes” vote today, and we are very happy [...]
Here at "Yes" for Illinois, we don’t think there are any good arguments against a convention, and if you or your organization would like to sponsor a debate on the issue, we’d be happy to appear for the "Yes" side.
One excellent place for debate is the blogosphere, and few do that sphere as well as [...]
A coalition of Edgewater citizen groups sponsored a forum on the Illinois Constitutional Convention vote. “Yes for Illinois” and Illinois Citizens Coalition was there to advocate strongly for a “Yes” vote.
Should Illinois hold ‘Con-Con’ in 2010?
Others saw holding a convention as being less dangerous than doing nothing.
Raila, co-author of “Taxation without Explanation: The Illinois [...]
It looks like Obama’s rhetoric is getting more empty by the day, as his high-powered strategists take $2-3 million from entrenched interests to fight against Illinois citizens’ chance to fix their state.
Many of the issues that make the other speakers believe that the constitution should be reviewed include the disparity in property taxes, the inequality in education for Illinois children and even the option to recall or impeach elected officials - a topic recently in the news when the senate did not pass a bill that would allow such a measure to become law.
If not now, when?
I’m talking about one of the state’s best-kept secrets. On Nov. 4, we’ll decide in a referendum whether to hold a state Constitutional Convention. The Con Con, as it’s informally known, is on the ballot every 20 years, thanks to the foresight of the people who drafted our state constitution in [...]
The Illinois Citizens’ Coalition is an Illinois Political Action Committee formed by Illinois citizens concerned about the downward spiral in Illinois’ political and financial condition. While the general goal of the Coalition is to inform and organize Illinois citizens to take more of an interest in their state, the immediate goal of the Coalition is to;
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