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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Illinois’ Constitutional amendment. « Fred Klonsky

Illinois’ Constitutional amendment. « Fred Klonsky:


Illinois’ Constitutional amendment.


In a presidential election year most of the attention is at the top of the ballot.
Then voters will pay some attention to contested congressional elections.
Who in Illinois will know what they are voting on when they get a separate ballot for Constitutional Amendment 49?
Not many.
Speaker of the House Michael Madigan knew what he was doing when he had the House vote unanimously to put this on the ballot, joined by a three fifths of the Senate. Even so-called progressives, like north shore