Voting in the Chi: Change Can’t Happen Without You
February 1, 2010 by blackgirlgrown
Filed under politics
The State of Illinois has one of the earliest primaries of the year. On Tuesday, voters in Illinois will choose their party picks for governor, lieutenant governor, Senate and House seats. The party favorites of each will then square off in November.
The Chicago Tribune provides rich clarity on what’s at stake and encourages angry voters to walk the walk:
What moves you to demand better of Illinois? Perhaps the deaths of those nine innocents, six of them Willis children, caused by truckers who paid bribes for their Illinois licenses?
How about your lawmakers’ foolish spending and borrowing, and the massive debts that you and your grandchildren now have to retire — does that move you? How about tax policy that drives jobs elsewhere, and government insolvency so severe that employers won’t want to be here to pay off all the obligations — does that move you? How about the legislators whose votes long enabled then- Gov. Rod Blagojevich? The foisting on you of Sen. Roland Burris? The refusal of incumbent pols to let you recall them, or to let you vote on Barack Obama’s successor in the U.S. Senate?
Tuesday you have the first of two 2010 elections in which you can be moved, or can move yourself, to demand better.
Well said. If you don’t participate in our democracy, your criticisms ring hollow.
blackgirlgrown
