Is Your Legislator With the Kids … Or the Unions?
The Illinois House of Representatives is considering a key vote right now. Senate Bill 2494 would save thousands of children from Chicago’s worst schools by giving them a voucher allowing them to attend the school of their choice.
This program has been successful in other states, and it won’t cost downstate or suburban schools any money. After years of your tax dollars going to failing schools, this bill will also hold Chicago Public Schools accountable for their performance.
Is your legislator standing with the kids who need help, or with the teachers unions who oppose this bill?
We’ve attached a list of undecided legislators below.
Not sure who your legislator is? Click here.
| Representative | District | Capitol Number | District Number |
| Elizabeth Coulson | 17 | (217) 782-4194 | (847) 724-3233 |
| Michael P. McAuliffe | 20 | (217) 782-8182 | (773) 792-0749 |
| Sandra M. Pihos | 42 | (217) 782-8037 | (630) 858-8855 |
| Franco Coladipietro | 45 | (217) 782-8158 | (217) 782-8158 |
| Dennis M. Reboletti | 46 | (217) 782-4014 | (630) 530-2730 |
| Kay Hatcher | 50 | (217) 782-1486 | (630) 553-3223 |
| Sidney H. Mathias | 53 | (217) 782-1664 | (847) 222-0061 |
| Suzanne Bassi | 54 | (217) 782-8026 | (847) 776-1880 |
| JoAnn D. Osmond | 61 | (217) 782-8151 | (847) 838-6200 |
| Sandy Cole | 62 | (217) 782-7320 | (847) 543-0062 |
| Rosemary Mulligan | 65 | (217) 782-8007 | (847) 297-6533 |
| Ronald A. Wait | 69 | (217) 782-0548 | (815) 547-7771 |
| Robert W. Pritchard | 70 | (217) 782-0425 | (815) 748-3494 |
| David R. Leitch | 73 | (217) 782-8108 | (309) 690-7373 |
| Donald L. Moffitt | 74 | (217) 782-8032 | (309) 343-8000 |
| Angelo Saviano | 77 | (217) 782-3374 | (708) 453-7547 |
| Renée Kosel | 81 | (217) 782-0424 | (708) 479-4200 |
| Jim Durkin | 82 | (217) 782-0494 | (708) 352-7700 |
| Bill Mitchell | 87 | (217) 782-8163 | (217) 876-1968 |
| Dan Brady | 88 | (217) 782-1118 | (309) 662-1100 |
| Jim Sacia | 89 | (217) 782-8186 | (815) 232-0774 |
| Jerry L. Mitchell | 90 | (217) 782-0535 | (815) 625-0820 |
| Jil Tracy | 93 | (217) 782-8096 | (217) 223-0833 |
| Richard P. Myers | 94 | (217) 782-0416 | (309) 836-2707 |
| Mike Fortner | 95 | (217) 782-1653 | (630) 293-9344 |
| Raymond Poe | 99 | (217) 782-0044 | |
| Rich Brauer | 100 | (217) 782-0053 | |
| Ron Stephens | 102 | (217) 782-6401 | (618) 651-0405 |
| William B. Black | 104 | (217) 782-4811 | (217) 431-1986 |
| Keith P. Sommer | 106 | (217) 782-0221 | (309) 263-9242 |
| John D. Cavaletto | 107 | (217) 782-0066 | (618) 548-9080 |
| David Reis | 108 | (217) 782-2087 | (618) 392-0108 |
| Roger L. Eddy | 109 | (217) 558-1040 | (618) 563-4128 |
| Chapin Rose | 110 | (217) 558-1006 | (217) 348-7673 |
ONLINE PETITION: Senator Cullerton Should Resign as Senate President
Stop the Tax Hikes: Text NO to 77007:
Tomorrow is Tax Day 2010, and while many are gathering in Tea Party protests around Illinois, we provide you with a simple way to say “No, Way! to Pat Quinn’s proposed 33% income tax increase:
When it comes to Pat Quinn’s tax hike, Republicans don’t just need to be the party of “No.”
We need to be the party of, “Hell, no!”
After mortgaging our state’s future through eight years of pension schemes, Big Labor giveaways, waste, fraud and abuse — it’s simply wrong that the Democrats in Springfield want to punish us in a bad economy with higher taxes.
By texting “NO” to 77007, you will receive an immediate link on your phone allowing you to immediately call Pat Quinn’s office.
We’ve already sent him thousands of emails in the past few months — now it’s time to hit the phones.
While many are focused on the damaging taxes being proposed at the federal level — we can’t let Pat Quinn off the hook here in Illinois.
This week, as we mark Tax Day 2010 — let Pat Quinn we’re not going to accept his tax hikes without a fight.
Please text “NO” to 77007 today.
Help Us Retire Blago’s Former ‘Apprentice’
Contribute to the Pat Quinn Retirement Fund
Well, Rod Blagojevich was fired again. This time, it wasn’t the Illinois General Assembly who gave him his pink slip — it was Donald Trump on “Celebrity Apprentice.” Meanwhile, Blago’s former apprentice, Pat Quinn, is proving that he deserves to be fired, too.
Do you think Illinois should “trump” Blago’s apprentice Pat Quinn and send him into retirement?
Vote in our online poll and then contribute $10 to the Pat Quinn Retirement Fund.
Your support today will help us give Pat Quinn his walking papers in November. We are the only Republican organization in Illinois building a statewide online grassroots network to retire Pat Quinn and stop his massive tax hike. But we can’t do it without your help.
By helping us today, you will help us defeat Quinn’s tax hike and make sure he is defeated on Election Day.
Does Pat Quinn Deserve to be Fired?
Please vote in our quick poll below and then click here to contribute $10 to the Pat Quinn Retirement Fund.
Tell Pat Quinn: ‘No Way, No How, No Tax Hikes!’
It’s clear that Governor Quinn doesn’t get it.
Illinois’ unemployment rate is at 12%.
Major Illinois employers, such as Caterpillar and John Deere, stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars due to the ObamaCare boondoggle.
And yet Pat Quinn wants to further hurt Illinois employers and workers with a massive 33% income tax hike.
Click here to email Governor Quinn to tell him “No Way, No How, No Tax Hikes!”
Caterpillar is already fighting to recover from the economic downturn in which they had to lay off thousands of Illinois workers. Last week, they announced that ObamaCare threatens this recovery — costing them $100 million in the first year of the program alone.
Another Illinois employer, John Deere, says the health care legislation will cost them upwards of $150 million.
These massive costs threaten Illinois jobs. Pat Quinn’s tax hike will only add fuel to the unemployment fire.
Even Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan seems to understand the real threat of Pat Quinn’s tax hike:
“Let’s be straightforward about this. The people of Illinois, they don’t want tax increases. They’re hurting. The American economy is in bad shape. People are out of work. They don’t want to hear about tax increases.”
Why is Pat Quinn continuing to push for a massive tax increase that is both unpopular with the people of Illinois and the state legislature?
Click here to email Pat Quinn today. Tell him, “No Way, No How, No Tax Hikes!”
Tell Lisa Madigan to Challenge Obamacare
Democrats in Congress celebrated their victory for government-run health care Sunday night — but we can still fight this monstrosity at the state level.
Attorneys General in at least twelve states are planning to challenge the constitutionality of Obamacare. Not surprisingly, Lisa Madigan is not one of those courageous leaders.
Don’t Illinoisans deserve better from her?
The health care boondoggle is an assault against the U.S. and Illinois constitutions. Democrat supporters of the bill are wrongly using the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution to justify the bill’s individual health care mandate — which is nothing more than a penalty for simply being alive.
As Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli told Reuters last night:
“If a person decides not to buy health insurance, that person by definition is not engaging in commerce … If you are not engaging in commerce, how can the federal government regulate you?”
As the highest legal official in the state of Illinois — Lisa Madigan has a duty to challenge this legislation to protect the Constitution.
Click here to email her today to urge her to challenge Obamacare in the courts.
Never before has the federal government required Americans to purchase any good or service as a condition of U.S. residency. Lisa Madigan must join in these legal actions to represent the interests of Illinois citizens.
Email Lisa Madigan today. Tell her to challenge the health care bill to protect the Constitution and our individual liberties.
Giannoulias: “We need an income tax increase.”
Watch the below video in which Illinois State Treasuer (and U.S. Senate candidate) Alexi Giannoulias voices his support for an income tax increase:
Quick Poll: Gov. Quinn’s Budget Proposal
Tell Dick Durbin He Needs Some Dance Lessons
“Democrats are going to have to go it alone.”
That’s the assessment on health care reform provided by our very own Sen. Dick Durbin to ABC News on Monday.
They say it takes two to tango, but Durbin and the Democrats apparently prefer to dance by themselves.
They are threatening to use a little known procedural trick called reconciliation (a.k.a., “The Nuclear Option) to force through a health care bill that the American people don’t want — and can’t afford.
It may be easier — at least for people with two left feet — to dance without a partner, but there’s something profoundly sad about the spectacle, if not downright disturbing.
Democrats may say that they have no choice, that the Republicans don’t want to dance with them — but the fact is that there’s a give and take to dancing and Democrats aren’t willing to give.
They want everything their way. But that’s not how dancing works … or legislation, either.
Unlike some of his colleagues in the Senate, and all members of the House, Durbin doesn’t come up for reelection this year. In fact, he doesn’t run again until 2014 — by which time, he no doubt hopes, his role in the health care reform debacle will be a distant memory for most of his constituents.
Let’s disabuse him of that hope. Let’s let him know that we’re paying attention and we will remember.
Email Sen. Durbin today and tell him he needs to take some dance lessons.
Tell Durbin that he needs to drop the extreme partisanship and work with the Republicans to draft a real reform bill … one that actually lowers costs, improves health care access and doesn’t bankrupt our country.
Tell him we want a bipartisan solution, or none at all.
