<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><p style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; "><span style="font: 18.0px Arial">Greets,</span></p><p style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; "><span style="font: 18.0px Arial">The new Public i includes a great piece by Mike Weissman, hopefully one can use it in variety of ways to raise the subject.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px;
font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; "><span style="font: 18.0px Arial">Media Transparency announce cut left on cutting room floor, so I intend to use the ucimc website to work on this, a little later</span></p><p style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; "><span style="font: 18.0px Arial">Couple of parags from and it's attached</span></p><p style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; "><span style="font: 18.0px Arial">For those who want to visit views on "WEFT history" and ongoing slander .. </span></p><p style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; "><span style="font: 18.0px Arial"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151055263002989&set=a.10150624583677989.388051.92629477988&type=1&theater">http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151055263002989&set=a.10150624583677989.388051.92629477988&type=1&theater</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">CGE doesn't allow posts to his page apparently, so this is a comment on a foto</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">again if you don't FB and you're still interested, reply</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><br></p></span></p><p style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times,
serif; font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; "><span style="font: 18.0px Arial"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Two Great Referenda</b></span><span style="font: 10.0px Lucida Grande"><br>
</span>by Michael Weissman and move to amend advocates</p>
<p style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; ">There’s way too much money in politics. The airwaves are getting crammed with low-information attack ads. Ordinary people hardly ever have political conversations with anyone with very different views anymore. </p>
<p style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; ">Just about everybody agrees with those points, but many figure there’s nothing you can do about them. This November in Champaign and Urbana, we do get to do something. There should be two referenda on the ballot, one in both towns and the other in Urbana (maybe Champaign too, stay tuned) one aimed at curbing the role of big money and the other at enhancing the voice of ordinary citizens. These referenda got on the ballot by votes at township meetings. We hope this short article will help introduce the referenda and get some discussion going. There are bound to be questions and arguments, so we expect to follow up with a more detailed article as those develop.</p>
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