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[Mark Mountain]

raiven, on Jul 11 2007, 03:14 PM, said:

ok i made some calls to my county board trying ti find out where the rersoultion is at when it will be voted on i called rick pollack and bob higgens,12 ward john beck havent heardany thing on this they weren,t available at this time i left my name and numbers and waiting now on the calls for winnabago county as soon as i hear from ill post this first thing.

Oswego Township in Kendall county passed the gun resolution last night Tom Yackley a township trustee took business into his own hands. We need to learn from Tom, In counties that look like they will be hard to pass present the resolution to the Township's and force the county to pass resolution, or forget about the county if all the townships pass a resolution opposing gun legislation thats even better (GRASSROOTS)Kendall county is considered a suburb of Chicago!This is great and I thank Tom for taking the bull by the horns in a land that is not friendly to gun owners(freedom is great)WE THE PEOPLE

[RichardM]

I live in Cook but would like my town to pass a resolution.....how can that be done?

[Ashdump]

xrugger9, on Jul 11 2007, 05:35 PM, said:

I live in Cook but would like my town to pass a resolution.....how can that be done?

  

I would suggest finding out who is on the city council and then approaching them about the issue. You may want to find a LEO, city worker, firefighter or such of whom you think might be sympathetic to our cause and probe them a little bit on who or what they think would be the best way to get the ball rolling.

[Blaster]

From Mark Mountain:

Oswego Township in Kendall county passed the gun resolution last night Tom Yackley a township trustee took business into his own hands. We need to learn from Tom, In counties that look like they will be hard to pass present the resolution to the Township's and force the county to pass resolution, or forget about the county if all the townships pass a resolution opposing gun legislation thats even better (GRASSROOTS)Kendall county is considered a suburb of Chicago!This is great and I thank Tom for taking the bull by the horns in a land that is not friendly to gun owners(freedom is great)WE THE PEOPLE

[john1911]

Molly B., on Jul 11 2007, 01:36 PM, said:

Pope County passed the resolution unanimously on July 10th!

Pope County goes GREEEEEEN!!!!

Molly B.

[Ol'Coach]

I love this job!
See latest update below!

[Molly B.]

Monroe Co. should be yellow - they will vote on the resolution Monday July 16th

[Mac]

xrugger9, on Jul 11 2007, 05:35 PM, said:

I live in Cook but would like my town to pass a resolution.....how can that be done?

You have to get with the powers that be and come up with an ordinance on gun ownership, usage, whatever. Once the municipality passes this ordinance, it takes presidence over home-rule of the metropolitan area. Daley is just the mayor of Chicago, His jurisdiction stops at the crook cty. line.


mac

[Mac]

xrugger9, on Jul 11 2007, 05:35 PM, said:

I live in Cook but would like my town to pass a resolution.....how can that be done?

You have to get with the powers that be and come up with an ordinance on gun ownership, usage, whatever. Once the municipality passes this ordinance, it takes presidence over home-rule of the metropolitan area. Daley is just the mayor of Chicago, His jurisdiction stops at the crook cty. line.


mac

[RichardM]

Mac, on Jul 12 2007, 09:50 AM, said:

xrugger9, on Jul 11 2007, 05:35 PM, said:

I live in Cook but would like my town to pass a resolution.....how can that be done?

You have to get with the powers that be and come up with an ordinance on gun ownership, usage, whatever. Once the municipality passes this ordinance, it takes presidence over home-rule of the metropolitan area. Daley is just the mayor of Chicago, His jurisdiction stops at the crook cty. line.


mac

could i just use the county resolutions you guys are using and put the town name in and try to pass that?

[Ol'Coach]

XR9, I believe you can, since you are not trying to change city/township code, correct?

[SmershAgent]

Cook County is going to be a special beast to tackle. I might recommend getting together with some of the other members from that area and planning a strategy.

If you just show up and hand them a document, they're going to bury it before you can say, "Holy home rule ordinance, Batman!"

I'm not trying to discourage you. I think we definitely need to make a statement up there. I'd just like to ensure all the angles are covered, and most importantly - build it up to a sufficiently high profile issue that they can't just brush it aside quietly. We need to force the board members to go on formal record of being oppossed to recognizing the civil rights of their constituents.

[RichardM]

I was thinking of going to the holocaust museum and getting there support because of the same gun laws used here and in Germany.  They would never turn away the holocaust museum or supporters.

Certain death politically in my area

[SmershAgent]

Now you're thinking!

Fourth Generation Tactics- just as C-rock advocates.

You might want to contact Jews For the Preservation of Firearms Ownership if you pursue this. They may be able to help you.

www.jpfo.org

[mack69]

xrugger wrote:

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I was thinking of going to the holocaust museum and getting there support because of the same gun laws used here and in Germany.

Don't get all fired up about the jewish community, I have found that though you'd think they would all think back to what the Germans did to their ancestors, not all of them even come close to pro gun types.
I have found that many are even anti gun. Checking in with the Jews For the Preservation of Firearms Ownership would be a good idea rather than being dissapointed by the Holocaust Museum reception.

I also like the idea of other towns, villages, cities (who are unfortunately part of cook county) getting together rather than one here or there getting buried deep before the county board.

[sticks]

Molly B., on Jul 11 2007, 12:25 PM, said:

Wayne County Board will be voting on the resolution tomorrow, Thursday July 12th at their 7 p.m. meeting.

Wayne should be painted YELLOW.

Then hopefully GREEN, after tonight's meeting.

[john1911]

This is great! I love seeing the green on the map.
Hopefully it won't be long until it's about 95% green. That will send a powerful message!

[SmershAgent]

john1911, on Jul 12 2007, 11:12 AM, said:

This is great! I love seeing the green on the map.
Hopefully it won't be long until it's about 95% green. That will send a powerful message!

Exactly. We're always hearing about how 85% of Cook County residents voted in favor of the symbolic AWB referrendum during their last election.

How about 85% of all counties in Illinois saying they want nothing to do with that.

[Ol'Coach]

Edit:  See update below.  Add Wayne (passed) and Piatt (agenda)

[SmershAgent]

Those little green archipelagos are starting to expand into nice islands.

Does anyone have any contacts in McLean County? I believe their board would be fairly amenable to a resolution, and it represents a good population bloc. It would also be another step north.

[Federal Farmer]

SmershAgent, on Jul 12 2007, 02:49 PM, said:

Those little green archipelagos are starting to expand into nice islands.

Does anyone have any contacts in McLean County? I believe their board would be fairly amenable to a resolution, and it represents a good population bloc. It would also be another step north.

I don't vote in McLean, but I live there during the week.  I'd be willing to go along with a resident for support.

[sticks]

Wayne County goes GREEN !

I'm not sure of the actual vote, couldn't make out what some of them said, but it passed; and they're going to send me a copy of the resolution, once it's signed.

However, they decided to strike the last few words of the resolution as presented. To be removed: "and consider such laws to be unconstitutional and beyond lawful Legislative Authority!"

Mike . . . thanks for the help !

[Ol'Coach]

Way to go, Sticks!!!!

Edit: See update, next page.

[Ol'Coach]

RE: McLean Co...I don't live there either, but how 'bout we contact Darnell's?

[Federal Farmer]

Ol, on Jul 13 2007, 05:11 AM, said:

RE: McLean Co...I don't live there either, but how 'bout we contact Darnell's?

I shoot there, I can ask him next week.

[oneshot]

Ol, on Jul 13 2007, 05:11 AM, said:

RE: McLean Co...I don't live there either, but how 'bout we contact Darnell's?

Mrs. Darnell was at the GSL meeting on Tuesday where John was singing your praises and I think she's always there anyway, so she probably heard you speak.  So I'd say she's primed to be spoken to about it.

[Ol'Coach]

DW...

I contacted Sue Darnell.  She and husband Ron will be expecting you.

51

Oneshot, thanks for the reminder!

[45superman]

SmershAgent, on Jul 11 2007, 02:46 PM, said:

Wow, look at this.

Adams County just passed their own resolution, and it even made the news.

http://www.whig.com/...47306626188.php

Wow--that's great news.  Wasn't Adams considered kind of a tricky one, because of anti-gun leadership in Quincy?

[45superman]

Figured it out--the mayor of Quincy (John Spring) is one of the six Illinois mayors on Bloomberg's Anti-Freedom Nanny-Mayors Coalition.  I'll bet he doesn't like the new resolution (Quincy is the county seat of Adams County, isn't it?).

[raiven]

neither will the mayor of rockford he he,s a member to mayor morssey