[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Champaign City Council Votes 6-3 Against Section 8

[Ricky Baldwin]

The bastards!

--- Karen Medina <kmedina at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Brian Dolinar wrote:
> >   After the so-called "study session," the Mayor took
> >   a poll on the Section 8 repeal. The city council
> >   voted 6-3 to repeal.
> 
> >   There will be a final vote next week, October 16 at
> >   7 p.m.
> 
> So, if you live in Champaign, communicate with Mayor Schweighart and with your City Council
> member soon! Especially if they are:
> * Ken Pirok, ward 5, west of Mattis and South of Bradley (roughly)
> * Tom Bruno, Council Member–At Large
> * Vic McIntosh, ward 3, West of Prospect and North of Bradley (roughly)
> * Deb Feinen, Council Member–At Large
> * Karen Foster, Council Member–At Large
> * and of course the Mayor who is supposed to represent all of Champaign.
> 
> Contact information, including addresses and phone numbers, is here:
> http://www.ci.champaign.il.us/government/page.php?pn=contact_us_mayorcouncil
> 
> Do show support Gina Jackson, Marci Dodds, and Michael La Due.
> 
> In a slight correction to Brian Dolinar's statements, Ken Pirok only rents out 1 or possibly 2
> units. Yes he is a landlord, but there are other people on the city council that are more
> intimately connected to landlords handling more units than Ken Pirok does.
> 
> And I agree with Brian that the majority of people on the Champaign City Council are really
> opposite to everything I believe in, and as someone who grew up in Champaign, I am terribly
> ashamed. 
> 
> -karen medina
> --------------------------------------------------------- 
> >   After the so-called "study session," the Mayor took
> >   a poll on the Section 8 repeal. The city council
> >   voted 6-3 to repeal. Ken Pirok, Tom Bruno, Vic
> >   McIntosh, Deb Feinen, Karen Foster, and Mayor
> >   Schweighart all voted on the side of landlords and
> >   against the poor. The majority vote was led by Ken
> >   Pirok, himself a landlord, who spoke like a member
> >   of the working class:
> >
> >   Gina Jackson, Marci Dodds, and Michael La Due voted
> >   for the Section 8 protections.
> >
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