mikew Posted July 22, 2019 at 12:56 PM Author Share Posted July 22, 2019 at 12:56 PM Did anyone attend the meeting on Saturday in Mt Vernon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papa Posted July 22, 2019 at 04:21 PM Share Posted July 22, 2019 at 04:21 PM I had planned on going but got caught up in something else so didn't make it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honeybee42 Posted July 23, 2019 at 11:43 PM Share Posted July 23, 2019 at 11:43 PM Did anyone attend the meeting on Saturday in Mt Vernon?Yes, I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howards Posted July 24, 2019 at 02:03 AM Share Posted July 24, 2019 at 02:03 AM Pipe dream...wont happen.2 sens. from fhitland and I can bet there will be one fhithead Dem from downstate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2A4Cook Posted July 25, 2019 at 10:35 PM Share Posted July 25, 2019 at 10:35 PM Unfortunately, as the nutty lefties flee their Crook Couny socialist paradise, they bring their stupidity with them into the collar counties. Will is already becoming heavily Democratic, and DuPage can't be far behind. You can't teach common sense to the average Illinois Dumborat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yurimodin Posted July 29, 2019 at 07:44 PM Share Posted July 29, 2019 at 07:44 PM as much as I would love this to happen I know its going to grind to a halt once we get to the point of how we are going to split up the debt between each side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted July 30, 2019 at 12:23 PM Author Share Posted July 30, 2019 at 12:23 PM Unfortunately, as the nutty lefties flee their Crook Couny socialist paradise, they bring their stupidity with them into the collar counties. Will is already becoming heavily Democratic, and DuPage can't be far behind. You can't teach common sense to the average Illinois Dumborat.Apparently they breed prodigiously, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilphil Posted July 30, 2019 at 02:27 PM Share Posted July 30, 2019 at 02:27 PM They have already pretty much ruined Lake County. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango7 Posted July 31, 2019 at 01:00 AM Share Posted July 31, 2019 at 01:00 AM They have already pretty much ruined Lake County. Only a few months after the News-Scum headlines boasted about the "dramatic change" we have a County official so scared by a piece of cloth he has to fake threats to close down a civil war reenactment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted August 1, 2019 at 09:33 PM Author Share Posted August 1, 2019 at 09:33 PM It looks like one of the founders is FROM lake county. And the Mt. Vernon meeting was packed to overflowing. 60 seats, 200 showed up. https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-illinois-state-secession-movement-0801-20190801-iesnu74ogvfjxfk35sn72lq7ya-story.html excerpt: The sun is nearly unbearable on the asphalt parking lot of the Fairfield Inn out by the highway as a stream of people makes its way inside the lobby; spry retirees in couples; middle-aged people carefully shepherding white-haired parents in their 80s; a few younger folks.Inside, state Rep. Brad Halbrook, one of the event’s organizers, is on damage control, ricocheting between groups of men in wide suspenders and ladies in T-shirts and slacks. He shakes hands, apologizing, explaining to the crowd spilling through the lobby that they will have to wait for a second session of the meeting they have come to attend — the meeting room is already standing room only. The July 20 event, planned for about 60 people and advertised on Facebook, seems to have drawn around 200.Ron and Carolyn Carnell, a couple from Hartford, Ill., didn’t take any chances — they brought their own folding nylon chairs and snagged a spot inside the meeting room. Ron made Carolyn forego lunch at the Cracker Barrel so that they could arrive early. “I knew in my heart of hearts this thing was going to be packed,” he says. A former mayor of his small town, he knows a lot of people, and in his circles, the topic of today’s meeting comes up a lot, he says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NRApistol Posted August 1, 2019 at 09:55 PM Share Posted August 1, 2019 at 09:55 PM It looks like one of the founders is FROM lake county. And the Mt. Vernon meeting was packed to overflowing. 60 seats, 200 showed up. https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-illinois-state-secession-movement-0801-20190801-iesnu74ogvfjxfk35sn72lq7ya-story.html excerpt: The sun is nearly unbearable on the asphalt parking lot of the Fairfield Inn out by the highway as a stream of people makes its way inside the lobby; spry retirees in couples; middle-aged people carefully shepherding white-haired parents in their 80s; a few younger folks. Inside, state Rep. Brad Halbrook, one of the event’s organizers, is on damage control, ricocheting between groups of men in wide suspenders and ladies in T-shirts and slacks. He shakes hands, apologizing, explaining to the crowd spilling through the lobby that they will have to wait for a second session of the meeting they have come to attend — the meeting room is already standing room only. The July 20 event, planned for about 60 people and advertised on Facebook, seems to have drawn around 200. Ron and Carolyn Carnell, a couple from Hartford, Ill., didn’t take any chances — they brought their own folding nylon chairs and snagged a spot inside the meeting room. Ron made Carolyn forego lunch at the Cracker Barrel so that they could arrive early. “I knew in my heart of hearts this thing was going to be packed,” he says. A former mayor of his small town, he knows a lot of people, and in his circles, the topic of today’s meeting comes up a lot, he says. another excerpt: "since state representation is determined by population, not geography, rural voters aren’t getting the representative government the U.S. Constitution entitles them to. Chicago, because of political dominance driven by population, is walking all over them." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinnyb82 Posted August 1, 2019 at 11:25 PM Share Posted August 1, 2019 at 11:25 PM Acres don't vote, people do. Localities with more people should have more voting power than rural areas. It's been a long time since you've needed to own land to vote in the US. We should probably try to keep it that way.Agreed that we don't strip or deny otherwise law-abiding (eligible to vote) citizens their right to vote because they don't own any real estate and pay property taxes (aka discriminate based on economic status). To those who say "Don't infringe on my right to keep and bear arms" and harping about wanting equal protection under the law and all of that, then saying "Let's strip the right to vote from anyone who doesn't own real estate," take a long, hard look at that. Seriously. Not only is that the opposite of freedom, restricting the right to vote solely to landowners will only ensure a permanent ruling class. The true problems are ignorance and apathy. I have no solutions to those problems. Sent from my VS987 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honeybee42 Posted August 2, 2019 at 01:40 AM Share Posted August 2, 2019 at 01:40 AM Acres don't vote, people do. Localities with more people should have more voting power than rural areas. It's been a long time since you've needed to own land to vote in the US. We should probably try to keep it that way.It's a reference to the way things were before Reynolds v Sims stopped states from having "little federal" structure--one legislative branch being based on population and the other branch based on counties (in which case Cook would be only 1 of 102), not a reference to making property ownership a voting requirement. The current system (in which both houses are based on population) just cements a tyranny of the majority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flynn Posted August 2, 2019 at 02:38 AM Share Posted August 2, 2019 at 02:38 AM They have already pretty much ruined Lake County.Only a few months after the News-Scum headlines boasted about the "dramatic change" we have a County official so scared by a piece of cloth he has to fake threats to close down a civil war reenactment. That is only the begining, they are more interested in attempting to ban monkeys riding dogs at the county fair and banning all outdoor burning even in unicorporated rural areas, while they salvate over the fact that their buddies downstate have been given them the ability to add their own county gas tax so they can have more money to waste... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted August 2, 2019 at 03:55 PM Author Share Posted August 2, 2019 at 03:55 PM Outdoor burning is carbon-neutral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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