Richard J. Daley https://illinoisfamilyaction.org Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:34:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-download-32x32.jpg Richard J. Daley https://illinoisfamilyaction.org 32 32 76203252 Old Fashioned and Modern Day Election Fraud https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/01/old-fashioned-and-modern-day-election-fraud/ Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:00:10 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=13312 Written by Jane Ryan Carrell

Let’s look at some of the early forms of election fraud.  A historian might tell us of elections two centuries ago, but we won’t go back that far. Instead, let’s consider forms of fraud practiced in Chicago in the Richard J. Daley era: the fifties, sixties and early seventies. Daley died of a heart attack Dec. 20, 1976 at the age of 74, after being elected in 1975 for his sixth 4-year term, holding office until his death.… Continue Reading

]]> 13312 Election Integrity https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/01/election-integrity/ Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:22:25 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=13123 Written by Jane Carrell

For the past twenty years, I have followed reports of election fraud, a phenomenon the mainstream media will assure you BARELY exists. It seems the major political parties have widely differing viewpoints on the very nature of voting. Should voting really be as easy as buying a Snickers bar? Or should it be a bit more like cashing a check in a grocery store? Is it appropriate to demand identification of a person seeking to cast a vote?… Continue Reading

]]> 13123 Voter Fraud: A Battlefield That Cannot Be Surrendered https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/10/voter-fraud-a-battlefield-that-cannot-be-surrendered/ Thu, 20 Oct 2016 16:03:49 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=6799 voter-fraud-does-not-exist-vote-fraud
Written by John Biver
First a bit of news from Western Journalism. In one of his typically difficult to watch and listen to comments, President Barack Obama had this to say about those warning about voter fraud:

It happens to be based on no facts. Every expert, regardless of political party, regardless of ideology, conservative or liberal, who has examined these issues in a serious way will tell you that instances of significant voter fraud are not to be found.

… Continue Reading ]]> 6799 Term Limits: While Not A Panacea, Quinn & Rauner Advance Worthy Proposals (Part 2) https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/06/term-limits-while-not-a-panacea-quinn-rauner-advance-worthy-proposals-part-2/ Thu, 30 Jun 2016 11:00:00 +0000 http://ifaction.wpengine.com/?p=6395 rauner_term_limits-2

Written by John Biver

Former Governor Pat Quinn, a fixture on the Illinois political scene for decades, has been on the statewide ballot many times, and also served as State Treasurer and Lt. Governor. Earlier this month, Reboot Illinois’ Matt Dietrich wrote this:

Before serving as governor from 2009 to 2015, Pat Quinn was known as a rabble-rousing reformer who, most famously, led a 1980 citizen initiative that cut the membership of the Illinois House by one-third.

… Continue Reading ]]> 6395 “Dysfunctional” Democrats May Keep House Supermajority https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2014/10/2645/ Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:00:05 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=2645 Madigan

Written by Russ Stewart

Michael Madigan is a political genius, a durable Democratic leader, a successful and wealthy lawyer, and a horrendously dysfunctional speaker of the Illinois House.

Mayor Richard J. Daley once babbled some nonsense that “Good government is good politics.” He should have known better, as he spent a decade in Springfield, where the operative philosophy is “good politics may be good government, but if it’s not, so what?” Grasping, clutching and holding power is endemic.… Continue Reading

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