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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Obama 2016 Calling - Illinois House Dems Make Marriage Null and Void!


 "Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.” - You know Who!!!!!!! from Matthew 4: 1- 9-10

Obama's 2016 Campaign ( watch for 3rd term!) demands Illinois House of Reps vote for the nullification of Marriage in Illinois - 


Chicago Sun Times White House Reporter Sweet Tweets this info: 
Obama's "Organizing for Action" pushing Illinois House to legalize gay marriage
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WASHINGTON--President Barack Obama's Organizing for Action--the outgrowth of his re-election campaign--is jumping in the fight to legalize gay marriage in Illinois, on Tuesday sending an e-mail to Obama's Illinois activists and supporters asking them to lobby Illinois House members to vote yes on the marriage bill, already passed by the Illinois Senate.
Obama already has urged the Illinois General Assembly to legalize gay marriage. Gov. Pat Quinn wants to sign a bill making Illinois the tenth state with gay marriage.
Last month, an Illinois House Committee advanced the bill to the full House floor, but so far the measure lacks the votes to pass the chamber, Sun-Times Springfield Bureau Chief Dave McKinney reports.This is the first attempt by OFA to get involved in an Illinois issue. The OFA, to have offices in Chicago and Washington was created to support the Obama agenda--and local issues that activists might want to work on.
Below, the text of the e-mail from Organizing for Action.....If you care about marriage equality, here's something really important you can do right now.As early as this week, the Illinois State House could vote on a bill -- already passed by the state Senate -- that will give all couples the legal right to marry. If it passes, Governor Quinn says he'll sign it into law. That's huge for all of us in the OFA family who care about this issue.Right now, reports say the bill is short of the votes it needs to pass, so these calls matter.
Take two minutes and look up your state representative right now -- then give them a call to let them know that you want them to vote YES on the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act.
It's really easy: Just use that website to look up your address, click "confirm your address," then scroll down to find your state representative's information.
Like President Obama said last year, he believes that marriage equality is a question of fairness -- of treating others the way you want to be treated.
Right now, his home state is just one step away from becoming the 10th state in the nation to approve same-sex marriage -- and making sure that gay and lesbian families in Illinois are treated equally in the eyes of the law.
We've heard from OFA supporters here in Illinois that this issue matters to you, and that's why we're teaming up with Illinois Unites for Marriage -- a joint project of ACLU Illinois, Equality Illinois, and Lambda Legal -- to add our voices to this fight.
This House vote is the final hurdle to making sure this historic legislation becomes the law of the land. Right now, a number of state representatives are still undecided, and we know this vote's going to be close.
Take a few minutes to look up your state representative today and urge them to vote YES in allowing all loving couples to share in the freedom to marry:
http://my.barackobama.com/Illinois-Marriage-Equality

To which I reply. 

To Il Rep. Fran Hurley,
If you really care about the people you represent, do not make the choice that Senator Bill Cunningham made to help promote the nullification of marriage in Illinois.  He voted YES !!!! for the Greg Harris\/ Heather Steans Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act. 

Fran you are at bat. Let's see which side of the plate you hit from on this important legislation.

Here's the pitch. Our district is comprised of people who married in same manner as they did after eviction from the Garden of Eden - Adam and Eve.  Not only that, Pope Francis is not a fan of same sex marriage and I suppose that Greg Harris, Fred Eychaner, Terry Cosgrove and Smell Mogul Henry Van Amerigen, as well as Heather's Dad want this legislation jammed through before Pope Francis has people jumping over to this side of history again.

Read a few of your e-mails from me and the neighbors and Catholic Coalition of Illinois.
Vote your conscience Fran.

We'll do the same.

Organizing My Garage - Hickey Cooperative Coalition Institute and Faith-based Plumbing



Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Real Power Has No Public Face , Nor Wants One. Chicago Magazine Notwithstanding - These Eight Determine the State


Judge Richard Posner is easily my pick as the most powerful person . . .anywhere around here. Numero Uno! El Jefe!

"Power is a measurement of an entity's ability to control its environment, including the behavior of other entities."

"Power is not alluring to pure minds."
Thomas Jefferson

"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"If any place breeds power, it’s Chicago. “Clout” and the city have gone together since the early 1900s, when our Irish Catholic forefathers clapped a stranglehold on the levers of authority that they have been loath to relinquish in modern times." -Chicago Magazine

Christ have mercy! Who wrote this? Ald. Dick Simpson? Well, he says the same thing in his latest prouncement on Corruption . . .Bad.
Chicago Magazine listed series of people believed be the most powerful in Chicago and the Illinois hinterlands. It is a vanity piece.

Only one face of the 100 persons in the article is what I would call powerful and that is # 67 Federal Judge Richard Posner. He should be # 1. - the most powerful single individual in the Federal Northern District. Judge Posner is the force in business, moral and legal policy. Everyone else is a piker.

Judge Posner scares the breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner out of every Black Robe, and I don't mean Jesuit, within a tankful of Premium of Lake Michigan.

Judge Posner overturns any other judge's ruling ( the sentencing of Eddie Vrdolyak e.g.) with a call to the editorial boards of our great metropolitan newspapers.

Absent as well are the Progressive Political Machine* that have so thoroughly dismantled the Democratic Political Machine that most people think snitching nickels is corruption. Policy, Law and of Course Wealth is power.

Along with Judge Richard Posner at # 1,


These folks should be in the magazine's top ten and are my Huge Hickey Eight.

2. Terry Cosgrove - The President of Personal PAC commands the political muscle and money of Planned Parenthood, LGBTQ Activists and owns Governor Quinn.



3. Dr. Quentin Young - Progressive leader of Hyde Park and Health Policy foundation architect of Obama Care



4. Arthur Loevy - Leftist Labor and the architect of Police Abuse Lawsuit Policy - Loevey made the marriage of left-wing public labor and politics a reality


5. G. Flint Taylor- Peoples Law Office - From Fred Hampton to tommorrow's Burge Headline this lawsuit lootery lawyer has helped bankrupt Cook County and Chicago, but has undermined any and all public faith in law enforcement and law itself.




6. Abner Mikva - The Progressive King of Policy and Progressive Government - if Mikva gives no imprimatur it does not happen - Abner Mikva is Michael Shakman's Chinaman - Now THAT is clout. No one in Cook County can ever say, " I'll call my guy!" " My Guy, or any Guy" is now an exhibit at the Field Museum.



7. Dawn Clark Netsch -from the ERA to Personal PAC every piece of legislation that has been an unfunded mandate on education, health and labor begins and ends with DCN>



8. Tie Fred Eychaner
and John Rogers -
Money Talks and now owns the TelaPrompter - Ariel Capital Management and Fred Eychnaer created Congressman Mike Quigley, CTA's Forrest Claypool, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and President Obama, as well as powerful GLBTQ political operatives - Debs Mell & Shore and Greg Harris, yet only Rogers' Ex gets the props in Chicago Magazine? Desiree , for real?

Whether it is the fees we pay, how safe we are from thugs, what our kids learn and not learn in public schools, our ability to petition for redress of grievances from government, who gets elected and our very freedom to worship is determined, not by Irish Catholic whitemen, or Swedes.

The Democratic Party exists in name only. Illinois, Cook County and Chicago are corrupt, or really wonderful places to live, because of eight powerful people

"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another." John Dewey

They have the power.



Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/john_dewey.html#ixzz1mSMSjv1I
*Throughout the twentieth century, middle-class progressives embraced visions of democracy rooted in their relatively privileged life experiences. Progressive educators developed pedagogies designed to nurture the individual voice within egalitarian classrooms, assuming that collective action in the public realm could be modeled on the relatively safe small-group interactions they were familiar with in their families, schools, and associations. Partly as a result, they remained blind to (and often denigrated) the democratic aspects of working-class organizations, such as unions and community action groups, which found strength in solidarity. In this article Aaron Schutz argues that progressives must integrate into their models the often brutal lessons about power learned by those with less privilege. Until they do so, their approaches to democratic education will continue to have limited capacity to support social transformation and empowerment in the world as it is.
from POWER AND TRUST IN THE PUBLIC REALM: JOHN DEWEY, SAUL ALINSKY, AND THE LIMITS OF PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION
Aaron Schutz*

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

My November General Election Choices - May 26, 2010



Here's how I am voting in November.


Bold - Strong Vote
Italics - Half Fast
No Tone -No Vote

SAMPLE BALLOT WITH SELECTED CANDIDATES
Illinois General Election - November 2, 2010
Your Polling Location:
Chgo Friends Meeting Ch-mtng Rm: 10749 S Artesian Av, Chicago, Il

U.S. Senator
Mark Kirk, Republican Party
Alexander (Alexi) Giannoulias, Democratic Party
LeAlan M. Jones, Green Party
(Vote for 1)
U.S. Representative, 3rd Congressional District
Daniel William Lipinski, Democratic Party
Laurel Lambert Schmidt, Green Party
Michael A. Bendas, Republican Party
(Vote for 1)
Governor / Lt. Governor
Bill Brady, Republican Party
Michael White, Independent Party
Pat Quinn, Democratic Party
Rich Whitney, Green Party
Scott Lee Cohen, Independent Party
(Vote for 1)
Attorney General
Lisa Madigan, Democratic Party
Steve Kim, Republican Party
David F. Black, Green Party
(Vote for 1)
Secretary of State
Jesse White, Democratic Party
Robert Enriquez, Republican Party
Adrian Frost, Green Party
(Vote for 1)
State Comptroller
Judy Baar Topinka, Republican Party
David E. Miller, Democratic Party
R. Erika Schafer, Green Party
(Vote for 1)
State Treasurer
Dan Rutherford, Republican Party
Robin Kelly, Democratic Party
Scott K. Summers, Green Party
(Vote for 1)
State Representative, 35th Representative District
Barbara Ruth Bellar, Republican Party
Kevin Carey Joyce, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
County Clerk, Cook County
Angel Garcia, Republican Party
David D. Orr, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
County Treasurer, Cook County
Carol A. Morse, Republican Party
Maria Pappas, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
County Assessor, Cook County
Joseph Berrios, Democratic Party
Robert C. Grota, Green Party
Sharon Strobeck-Eckersall, Republican Party
(Vote for 1)
Sheriff, Cook County
Frederick Collins, Republican Party
Marshall P. Lewis, Green Party
Thomas J. Dart, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
President, Cook County Board
Roger A. Keats, Republican Party
Thomas Tresser, Green Party
Toni Preckwinkle, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
Cook County Commissioner, District 11
Carl Segvich, Republican Party
John P. Daley, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
Commissioner, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
Barbara McGowan, Democratic Party
Diana Horton, Green Party
Jimmy Lee Tillman, II, Republican Party
John (Jack) Ailey, Green Party
Mariyana T. Spyropoulos, Democratic Party
Nadine Bopp, Green Party
Paul Chialdikas, Republican Party
Todd Connor, Democratic Party
(Vote for 3)
Judge, Appellate Court, Appellate District 1, Vacancy of the Hon. Jill K. McNulty
James R. Epstein, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
Judge, Appellate Court, Appellate District 1, Vacancy of the Hon. Denise M. O'Malley
Aurelia Marie Pucinski, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
Judge, Appellate Court, Appellate District 1, Vacancy of the Hon. Leslie E. South
Mary Katherine Rochford, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
Judge, Circuit Court, Cook County Circuit, Vacancy of the Hon. Richard B. Berland
William H. Hooks, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
Judge, Circuit Court, Cook County Circuit, Vacancy of the Hon. Philip L. Bronstein
Terry MacCarthy, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
Judge, Circuit Court, Cook County Circuit, Vacancy of the Hon. Francis J. Dolan
Susan Kennedy Sullivan, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
Judge, Circuit Court, Cook County Circuit, Vacancy of the Hon. Marsha D. Hayes
Raymond W. Mitchell, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
Judge, Circuit Court, Cook County Circuit, Vacancy of the Hon. Daniel J. Kelley
John Patrick Callahan, Jr., Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
Judge, Circuit Court, Cook County Circuit, Vacancy of the Hon. James P. O'Malley
Thomas V. Lyons, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
Judge, Circuit Court, Cook County Circuit, Vacancy of the Hon. Ronald C. Riley
Sandra G. Ramos, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
Judge, Circuit Court, Cook County Circuit, Vacancy of the Hon. Carol Pearce McCarthy
Daniel J. Gallagher, Democratic Party
Maureen Masterson Pulia, Republican Party
(Vote for 1)
Judge, Cook County Circuit Court, 3rd Subcircuit, Vacancy of the Hon. Thomas F. Carmody, Jr.
Allen F. Murphy, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
Judge, Cook County Circuit Court, 3rd Subcircuit, Vacancy of the Hon. Daniel P. Darcy
Edward Harmening, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)
Judge, Cook County Circuit Court, 3rd Subcircuit, Additional Judgeship A
Daniel Malone, Democratic Party
(Vote for 1)

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