From the folks who brought you Illinois’ awful government: Millions to stop a constitutional convention
What describes the nature of Illinois politics better than the hiring of Democrat strategist David Axelrod’s firm by an establishment Republican to squash any possibility of a state constitutional convention?
Voting to convene a convention to revise the Illinois Constitution—which is required by that very constitution to be on the ballot this November—is hardly a subject on everyone’s (or even anyone’s) lips, but you never know when the natives might act up and demand a change in the nation’s most dysfunctional state government. No telling what it might lead to, something like, oh, government that works.
The Democratic and Republican powers that have run this state (into the ground) can’t have anything like that, so a coalition is about to hire Axelrod’s ASK Public Strategies and the public relations firm Hill & Knowlton to jointly run a $2-million to $3-million media and advertising campaign. “We haven’t signed the contract, ... Read More...
