“Yes” For Illinois

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Galesburg’s News-Register covered last night’s debate in Galesburg.

Is it time for a constitutional convention?
Debate raises awareness of November ballot question
GALESBURG —Illinois government is broken. On that much both debaters at Thursday night’s Knox County Democrats event could agree.
But the sticking point became what is to be done to fix the problems facing the state.
“The state’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]