Democracy in action

May 2nd, 2008 at 08:10am Don R. Gugliuzza

Give the voters the option of recalling ineffective orĀ corrupt elected officials in Illinois? What a stupid idea. Who can trust the same people who mistakenly elected those people in the first place, with the power to un-elect them? Apparently, the Illinois Senate is proud of the tradition in Illionois that sends a high percentage of Governor’s to prison. This is the same body of elected officials that allowed themselves a 10% pay increase and will, in all probablility get another pay increase of 11.7%. This is the same group that governs over a state that has a $3 billion shortfall, is slow in paying it’s bills, has a crumbling infrastructure and, in general, is mismanaged to historic proportions. Why in the world would they be afraid to let the electorate in this state be able to cull out the corrupt, self-serving and/or inept elected “representatives?”

Well, here’s a news flash for those Senators who voted against giving us the opportunity to vote on whether we want the ability to recall those that don’t deserve the public trust. We do have recall in this state. It’s called a general election. All we need to do is identify those Senators who voted against the constitutional amendment that would allow recall and vote against them in the next election. We need to bring democracy back to our state and our country. This would be a good start.

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