Operation Turn DuPage Blue Announces
Help us oppose Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 to IL House Bill 1752
State Senator Dan Cronin (a Republican from District 21) has proposed an amendment to House Bill 1752 which seeks to amend the Election Code by making the minimum nomination petition signature requirement for county offices in DuPage County 1.5% (now, 0.5%) of the number of voters in a certain category.
OTDB thinks it is egregious that such a state law would single out DuPage County, seemingly for the purposes of making it three times more difficult for Democratic, and especially grassroots, candidates to run for office.
What makes Sen. Cronin's sponsorship of this amendment even more irksome is that he has recently written letters to the editor stating that, "It has become imminently clear that one-party rule in the General Assembly does not benefit the people we were elected to represent" (Elmhurst Press, 6/14/07) and that Illinois' budget stalemate was "the result of one-party control of our system of governance, which eliminates the need for cooperation and good-faith negotiations" (Daily Herald, 8/7/07).
Below is a list of Representatives. Please chose three or four to contact on Wednesday or Thursday of this week. The vote is on Friday. Let them hear us down in Springfield (and it will certainly echo around DuPage).
List of Representatives
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