Chicago North Shore Tea Party Sat. June 20
Are you disgusted with the so called stimulus boondoggle? Do you want to send a message to Springfield “tax eaters” who are conspiring to raise the state income tax? Do you live in Cook County? Are you fed up with paying the nation’s highest sales taxes?
Then come to Skokie’s Harms Woods, at the intersection of Harms and Old Orchard Roads, on Saturday June 20 for the North Shore Tea Party.
This patriotic event will run from 11:00am-1:00pm. Bring a lawn chair, a sign, and a package of non-perishable food for the hungry.
Speakers include:
- Tony Peraica, Cook County Commissioner
- Rosanna Pulido, IL Minuteman Coordinator
- Sheila Weinberg, CEO, Institute For Truth In Accounting
- State Senator Matt Murphy (R-Palatine)
- WLS-AM Commentator Dan Proft
- John Ruberry of Marathon Pundit
Harms Woods, where readers of Marathon Pundit know is the place where I do much of my running, is just a half-mile west of Interstate 94.
Click here for more information.
Your Chicago area property taxes might be uncapped
Cal Skinner, a former state legislator, has keen eyes and he noticed something frightening in a Friday Chicago Tribune article:
One bill filed in the General Assembly in February would prevent the cap from falling below 2 percent. Another bill would allow the use of a different inflation measure in the formula—an employment cost index that tracks changes in labor costs—which could benefit school districts.
The “cap” is a tax cap. After years of school boards recklessly hiking taxes, the Illinois General Assembly instituted a Cook and collar county local property tax cap that limits tax increases to the Consumer Price Index. School boards and the like can seek higher taxes, but voters have to approve.
Last year was a different kind of year on many levels, especially economically. The 2008 CPI was an unheard of 0.1 percent. Which is why the Democratic-controlled General Assembly is considering a backhanded increase in taxes.
Not going to the inaugural? Try this Chicago GOP event
The Chicago Tribune has good news for those of you who will not be traveling to tomorrow’s Barack Obama inauguration. There are other events out there, and I want to focus one taking place in Chicago for people who aren’t in lockstep with Obama.
Well, you’re in luck, because Joe Birkett will be the featured guest at the Chicago Young Republicans’ Inaugural After Party, which runs Tuesday from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Dugan’s on Halsted (128 S. Halsted St.; 312-421-7191; $50, $20 for Young Republicans, free for Chicago Young Republicans paid members).
“This is meant not as an anti-Obama event. It’s meant as a pro-Joe Birkett event,” said Dan Curry, spokesman for the former prosecutor currently weighing a run for governor or attorney general. “It’s just a gathering, a get-together, to watch some of the inauguration festivities and launch a loyal opposition to Democratic rule in Illinois.”
Conservative candidate emerges in Ill. 5th
Shortly after winning reelection in Illinois’ 5th Congressional District, Rahm Emanuel announced he would be Barack Obama’s chief-of-staff.
There will be a special election to fill the vacancy, primaries will be held on March 3, and the general election will take place on April 7. (We need one of those for Obama’s Senate seat, but that’s another matter.)
The district is viewed as a safe seat for the Democrats, but in 1994, Republican Michael Flanagan upset scandal-plagued but powerful Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski.
Flanagan served one term. Rod Blagojevich, with the help of his father-in-law’s patronage army, bested Flanagan.
Well, Blago is certainly scandal plagued, and although not accused of wrongdoing, Emanuel has always been cozy with Blagojevich, and was in regular contact with the disgraced governor’s staff in regards to choosing Obama’s replacement.
Had enough?
There is a conservative alternative in the 5th, which is centered on Chicago’s Northwest Side. Lifetime district resident and Republican, Rosanna Pulido, has thrown her hat in the ring.
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