[Peace-discuss] Constitutional Convention

[Karen Medina]

Neil, you were on a far right radio show? J. Bambanic is also for the Illinois 
Constitutional Convention, which scares the heck out of me. So I understand 
Neil's comments about Bruno Behrend.

The current Illinois constitution can be amended. So maybe that might suffice 
for the moment. 

Pro for the con con: impeachment of the governor by the people might be 
added to a new constitution.

Con for the con con: the powers of the townships might be taken away in a new 
constitution. 

Has anyone else been completely appalled by the League of Women Voters 
advertisement against the constitutional convention? I heard their advert on the 
radio. WIXY 100.3 was playing the advert yesterday.

-karen medina

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:24:16 -0500
>From: Neil Parthun <lennybrucefan at gmail.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] local issues  
>To: "Barbara kessel" <barkes at gmail.com>
>Cc: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>, "C. G. Estabrook" 
<galliher at uiuc.edu>
>
>   Bruno Behrend, a far right radio show host whose
>   show I was on a few years ago, is for the Con Con.
>    So, I'm against it.
>   And while sales taxes are regressive, it is also
>   fundamentally unfair to put most of a school's
>   funding on property taxes.  Poorer districts have
>   significant difficulty in getting funding for their
>   buildings due to such economic setups.  Illinois is
>   a state that has some of the most fundamental
>   disparities in school funding between districts. 
>   Its not the act of seeing with our own eyes alone;
>   its correctly comprehending what we see,
>                       
>        Neil
>    We absolutely have to refuse to attribute any kind
>   of permanency to that which is simply because it is.
>   [angela v. davis, 1944-]
>   Finish each day and be done with it. You have done
>   what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have
>   crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow
>   is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with
>   too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old
>   nonsense.
>   [ralph waldo emerson, 1803-1882]
>________________
>_______________________________________________
>Peace-discuss mailing list
>Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/listinfo/peace-discuss