Polls are open from 6 a.m. – 7 p.m. today!
Written by John Biver
Back on March 1st the Illinois Family Action held a staff meeting and before getting to the business of the day, executive director Dave Smith asked me if I heard that Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan’s choice for Mayor of Aurora had lost the previous day.
That’s when I remembered that February 28, 2017 was Consolidated Primary Election day.
I forgot to vote!… Continue Reading
Tags: 2017 Election, Cody Holt, Consolidated Election, Enoch Essendrop, Jean Forrest, Joe Walsh, Katherine David, local elections, Ralph Bonatz, Renata Sliva, school board races
Illinois Politics | David E. Smith | April 4, 2017 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Today is Election Day — Get Out and Vote!
Written by John Biver
The self-government called for in the first sentence of the U.S. Constitution (“we the people”) doesn’t take a breather now that the November election is over. We have lived through an interminably long presidential cycle which included debates and primaries that only introduced the less-than-stellar general election. Any thoughts having to do with political campaigning after all of that are, well, also less-than-stellar.
What comes to mind, however, is the alternative — what if we didn’t have the power to run or help other good men and women run for offices?… Continue Reading