Principle Over Party

Unlike Illinois, who won’t allow recall, the State of Michigan does. There is currently a recall effort taking place against the Speaker of the House, Andy Dillon. This effort started after he helped push through a the first tax increase since 1983. (Hat tip: Mackinac Center for Public Policy and Publius Forum)

Citizens in his district are gathering signatures currently at libraries and township offices. Speaker Dillon is not thrilled with this effort. Employees of his office are driving hundreds of miles back to the township and are intimidating the citizens in a process known as blocking. This technique is to surround the petition gatherer and intimidate anyone who actually wants to sign the petition. Imagine citizens wanting to hold their elected officials accountable and being harassed by employees of the officials themselves. Watch the following video and see for yourself what is taking place in Michigan.

For more information, read the post over at Publius Forum.

We have equal opportunity corruption here in Illinois. Both Republicans and Democrats take part in the bribery, kickbacks, and influence peddling. Our previous governor is in jail, the current governor is under investigation and just think about how many other elected officials, their staff and their cronies who are in jail, on trial or under investigation currently. With the criminal records Illinois politicians are piling up, just imagine the thugs our elected officials would use here on us?

There is a move here in Illinois to pass a recall law, but do you really think they are going to pass a law that would allow us, the citizenry to hold them accountable for their actions? It’s not going to happen and if it does, it is going to be so restrictive, it will be just another useless law designed to make the politicians appear that they actually care about what “we the people” think.

We can fight back. Many of you probably don’t know this, but we have a chance this fall to take back our State from the politicians this fall. Every 20 years, a mandatory vote is held giving the citizens of Illinois a chance to have a Constitution Convention. The last vote was in 1988 and the last convention was in 1970. That convention allowed our State, City and Municipal governments to run rough shod over us. In essence, it allowed the State to use citizens as it servants instead of the State serving the citizens.

For more information on the Constitution Convention please visit the Illinois Citizens Coalition.