The Peoria Chapters of the NAACP, the ACLU, the Peoria Christian Leadership Council and the Peoria Area League of Women Voters are partnering in a campaign to prevent voter suppression in Peoria. The self-described non-partisan effort is called “Let Me Vote!” and will kick off with a press conference at 5:30 p.m. Monday, September 24, at the Gateway building downtown. According to a press release, Peoria City Election Commission executive director Tom Bride and Peoria County Clerk Steve Sonnemaker are scheduled to speak on “the history of voter suppression in Peoria [and]…ways to prevent it in the forthcoming election.”
A candidate forum is scheduled immediately following the press conference. “All candidates in contested races for US Congress, Illinois State Senate and House, Peoria County offices and County Board have been invited to attend this event,” the press release stated. “The audience will be able to ask questions of these candidates.”
Admission is free, and refreshments will be served. Both events are open to the public.
Tom Bride is a practicing Democrat yet has a job title of election commissioner which is just a little squirmy. If he doesn’t want to come off as a partisan hack, he’ll also do a talk on “the history of election FRAUD in Peoria” which would be at least a semester course. Ask him and I’ll bet he agrees.
Voter supression = declare for a republican or democratic ballot.
Voter suppression has been so prevalent in Peoria….LOL!
Sounds like a cynical effort to create a bogeyman to blame when ‘Crats lose big in November.
Chicago will get out the vote for Obama. It will start with the nearest cemetery. No suppression in Illinois.
Gee since 1980 there have been 10 whole documented cases of voter fraud in the whole US. This is a big issue, NOT. What this is, is a way for the Republicans to keep the disenfranchised from voting. Yep, keep the poor out of the voting booths. Vonster is half right, this will be the bogeyman to blame when the Republicans lose in November.
Emtronics, you know dead people vote regularly in Chicago, among other places, while others vote “early and often.” It’s not just a joke, its reality in this state.
Aw geez, EM… [facepalm]
Really You guys still think Capone is running Chicago?
The whole story about dead people voting in Chicago is nothing more than an urban legend. It has been investigated many times and found their is no truth to the story.
Emtronics is absolutely right. The actual cases of voter fraud is something made up by the republican party to try to scare people and disenfranchise voters. They know they’re going to lose big this year if everyone is allowed to vote, so they want to suppress voters.
I think the people that voted for all these right wing governors, etc in the past 4 years will realize what mistakes they made and the pendulum will return more to the middle, where voters rights will not be suppressed.
No, Rahm is. Same thing – just more refined.
I didn’t want to break anyone’s bubble but Ben is indeed correct. I think the last time a cemetery voted in Chicago was just after the great Chicago Fire when the authorities found 4 people voted that were in the cemetery. From then on, the legend grew and grew. You see, for the simple minded, it’s easy to fool the people. Like birth certificate (I’d like to see Ryan’s birth certificate only because I want to make sure he is over 18) or the President is a Muslim of a Socialist or whatever.
Like whatever happened to: “Bush kept us safe!!!” cry? Yes, after the biggest attack on the US since Pearl Harbor Bush finally got around to keeping us safe. 4 years later Obama has kept us safe. You see? It depends how the GOP wizards want to twist it and they are very afraid that the poor and disenfranchised will vote and not for them. So, let’s say we have picture IDs and pee in a bottle and whatever else we can to cheat. The good ol GOP. The crap never stops coming.
Down in Murphysboro, Ill., the Democrats tried to keep three Republicans off the ballot because they secured their nominating petitions with paper clips instead of staples (Story from KFVS-TV). Fortunately, a judge with some common sense put a stop to those shenanigans. Perhaps this bi-partisan group in Peoria can also start a “Let Me Run!” campaign to prevent candidate suppression statewide.
It says in my packet for city council that the documents must be secured in an orderly fashion in on corner. Implying a staple I would guess.
I really wish you’d tone down the extreme left wing politics, Emtronics. I really want to see you get elected. No sense in pissing people off.
I think the people that voted for all these right wing governors, etc in the past 4 years will realize what mistakes they made and the pendulum will return more to the middle, where voters rights will not be suppressed.
Not hardly. States that elected Republican Governors in 2010 are faring far better than their Democratic counterparts.
http://www.drudge.com/news/160704/another-democrat-pleads-guilty-election
Election fraud in Arkansas … oh say it isn’t so! It can happen … does happen … and any person / party should not be participating in election fraud.
Ben, so how do you explain more people voting in Chicago precints than are registered?
Wow EM…drinking that Democratic Cool-aid huh, and lots of it. I share in the Chicagoland dirty politics daily. No identity card = voter fraud and multiple votes. What are you lefties scared of, Legitimacy, Truth, Honesty, an educated voter? Wow. The truth shall set you free. Chicago/Ill. politics=Washington politics. Crap as usual and many Repubs are riding along right with you. Talk about slavery too. The Dems have been real good at feeding the poor (black and white), uninformed, uneducated (at least make it through grade school)lots of that DemCool-Aid. Wake up folks, our nation and our lovely state is imploding. Time for a big Tea Party with a Peoria lead!
PP sez: ” What are you lefties scared of, Legitimacy, Truth, Honesty, an educated voter? ”
Democrats have never been afraid of this. It IS the GOP who started all this. What are they afraid of?
As for the poor being fed by the Dems as you say, well, doesn’t the GOP like voters, dumb, uninformed, and stupid? That is why they don’t help up the lesser of society and instead label them as a burden.
Em drank the whole gallon.
Maybe we could use an imprinted id that cannot be removed
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snhJgZr3KyQ
no need for picture id
How about a tattoo on our foreheads with a bar code of our SS#. That way, when we all got to vote, we remove our grey worker hats and they scan the bar code.
Emtronics,
here’s what you’ve created with your entitlement generation…
today’s paper.
PEORIA — In the fifth such incident in recent months, a Circle K convenience store was looted by about 40 teenagers between late Saturday and early Sunday morning, according to a police report.
A store security camera showed the group coming onto the store property at 2312 N. Knoxville Ave. about 11:30 p.m. and taking chips, candy and soda together amounting to $112.52. A total of 73 separate items were taken.
A Peoria Police Department report made on the incident at 8 a.m. Sunday indicated similar incidents have happened four other times.
No arrests were made.
Checking: How did I create that? So everyone that gets any entitlement does this stuff? Do old people on SS do this? That is an entitlement. How about those who get a Hoverround with little or no cost to them? That is an entitlement. To say welfare is the cause of the incident on Knoxville is painting with a very wide brush and if true, why didn’t these kids simply use their LINK cards? Free is free right? So, let’s go with your idea and stop all entitlements, this crap will end right? What a narrow and focused Fox News type of mind you have.
This kind of action is from unsupervised, un-properly raised kids, with a parent or parents who are as ignorant as their children, most likely in a gang where they do this as a part of their gang membership. Kids out at 11:30pm. Why don’t you blame the parents of these kids?
Actually though, in some respects you are right about entitlements creating this. The entitlements this city gives to private developers and loans to private business and fail TIFs has caused the city to lay off police and the proper tools police need to break this kind of behavior. But, hey! We got a book so…..
private loans to businesses didn’t cause police layoffs, that thinking eliminates the personal choice and responsiblity involved in making those decisions. They chose to fund Matthews, They chose to cut cops, they chose to ignore crime, they chose to bring in someone to talk to people instead of taking action.
See how well that has gone:
PEORIA — Police responded to three armed robberies in less than two hours Monday night in different parts of the city and took one suspect into custody.
The first call came in to police at 8:07 p.m. A man was robbed in the 800 block of North Cooper Street, and police had a suspect in custody within about half an hour.
While police were investigating that armed robbery, a second incident was reported at 8:18 p.m. in the 2300 block of North Knoxville Avenue. A woman was robbed near a gas station.
Later, a Pizza Hut delivery driver from the Campustown location reported he had been robbed while making a delivery to the 900 block of Sheridan Road.
Police responded to three armed robberies in less than two hours Monday night in different parts of the city and took one suspect into custody.
The first call came in to police at 8:07 p.m. A man was robbed in the 800 block of North Cooper Street, and police had a suspect in custody within about half an hour.
While police were investigating that armed robbery, a second incident was reported at 8:18 p.m. in the 2300 block of North Knoxville Avenue. A woman was robbed near a gas station.
Later, a Pizza Hut delivery driver from the Campustown location reported he had been robbed while making a delivery to the 900 block of Sheridan Road.
Pjstar online: today.
Parents choose to ignore their children’s behavior. They chose not raise their children properly and some continue to chose to fund the parents that do this.
Checking sez: “private loans to businesses didn’t cause police layoffs,”
The hell they didn’t. Look at Midtown Plaza. The battery company. The 30k to a hotdog stand. While the hotdog stand is till out we lost money on all the other investments this city has made. Thus taking money out of the general fund and causing a deficit. What’s this city do? They reduce police and hand out $35 mil to another developer. I won’t go into the details on the Tech Center and how we made Diane whatever her last name is (Cullingtham??) a multi millionaire on a parking deck her husband built. I don’t understand your post. The mere fact that a city this size has 3 armed robberies inside of an hour is amazing. I do know this. The police are over taxed and spend damn near every minute of their time running from call to call. No patrols, no interaction with neighborhoods.
I am completely aware of the bad financial decisions, but your wording was that spin that the city council puts on it. Namely, we don’t have the funds for staff. It appears it is based on a budget shortfall. Weak minded individuals fall for that line of BS. IT was the choice and the priorities. You’re missing the entire point of personal responsibility and the choices made that lead to problems, without that recongnition, officials easily distance themselves from the choices they made. They chose to give Matthews millions and robbed the retirement fund to boot. If you are going to run for council, you must understand that concept. You must listen and understand what you are being told, before going on a rampage. We have several in seats now that don’t listen and have their own agenda. How are you going to be any different, if you fail to demonstrate that skill. Additionally, listen most closely to those that don’t agree with you. There is some measure of truth that can be gleaned to add to developing ideas and refinement of projects and decisions before they are made. Again, if you fail to demonstrate these skills, how are you better than what we have. This is NOT an attack, but clearly a challange to grow if you are truly going to represent a diverse population. Not all the first district is the south end. Decisions must be made about Downtown, Averyville, etc. Opposing sides need to heard and the best parts of each side should be utilized to give the taxpayers the best option.
This counsil has failed the public miserably. We are not safe and our money has been wasted on campaign donors projects, businesses for which they work, their own business contracts, etc.
If you want to offer a better option, you must personally be prepared to BE that better option.
You are correct on many points. Money wasted on the hotel and retirement funds held hostage. I am a city services first person. I do understand that money doesn’t grow on trees and the police and fire unions have to be in on the process. If we, the people are expected to pay premium prices for fire and police, then we should expect premium results. I’ll admit I don’t understand the whole process but if I get elected you can bet I’ll figure it out and be in on the processes that go on. I am very aware of the skills needed and really, who has the proper skills on the council now? Like you said, most are there for their own agendas. I have no agenda other than to represent the people, yes diverse as they are, in the first district and to be there for the businesses that operate in the 1st. That doesn’t mean I have to be their lackey.
The way I figure it is this. Right now we have two people running. Myself and Mrs Moore. I don’t know Mrs. Moore but I do know she thinks along the lines this council operates right now and if you want the same old going on, then she is your vote.. If you want to see a radical difference and more attention paid to the neighborhoods and to the safety of the people who live and work in them, then I am your vote.
I think the best form of economic development the city can provide would be to have good infrastructure and top-notch basic services – police, fire, garbage, code enforcement, good schools etc. Basics first, not wild development schemes.
Randall:
I very much support your campaign. I do not live in the first district, so cannot vote for you. I also would support CJ (cannot vote for him either).
You will likely be told, should you win election, that governmental incentives are needed to bring development, that such is the playing field these days. Hogwash! Government incentives bring development that relies upon these incentives to turn a profit. When the incentive leaves, so does the business, though the renewal of the incentive is often portrayed as necessary to “save jobs,” so that once the incentive is in place, removing it appears to the public as a vote to fire workers. Our society has increased in speed and instant gratification and the need to be doing something, anything, to spur economic development takes precedence over careful planning and nurturing. If we aren’t in crisis mode, we aren’t doing enough.
More importantly, beware the Vegas strip shell games. You appear fully aware of this. Do not say you will figure it out once elected – I believe you have it figured out already. Financial alchemists just don’t want you to realize it. You understand perfectly well that selling tomorrow’s dollar for a quarter means that tomorrow you will be broke.
Hotel money is not police money. Hogwash! We, the city, sold specific bonds for the hotel and police money comes from the general fund. Well, bonds are a financial instrument. The city obtains instant money by selling its right to future revenue. The theory being the time-value of money makes instant cash “worth more.” A dollar wednesday for a hamburger tuesday. Indeed, that money in the form of future hotel revenue is not currently in the general fund and it is correct it cannot be used to pay for more police. However, if the hotel does not generate revenue to pay bond holders, the city will be required to pay the bond holders nonetheless. From the general fund. Or more bonds. Maybe bonds with a right to real estate tax proceeds, or monorail ridership fees, I dunno. So these bonds are in essence an IOU tied to a specific revenue source. But guaranteed by the city.
Stockton, CA. Municipal Bankruptcy.
I trust CJ to correct any of my inaccuracies.
Off topic – sorry – BUT is the Bears/Packers game blacked out in Peoria? I can not believe we have to find a radio and can’t see it! Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzz
It’s on the NFL network, which hardly anyone has. Time to find a bar.
Checking for details, please let me know in what election more people voted than were registered to vote. I don’t believe that has ever happened, anywhere.
That seems like a widely absurd folk tale that someone started and you decided to believe.
Ben it is an old tale from 1857 I think when a Chicago election for a ward was rigged. There has been no voter fraud in a general national election ever well, not until the geezy laws enacted by GOP backed people all of a sudden demand an ID. People who have been legally registered to vote and have for years are all of a sudden not legal anymore. Makes one wonder who is trying to fix what.
link to voter fraud in 1960 Presidential Election
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36425-2000Nov16?language=printer
6000 plus voted with only 4800 registered (who knew it would be a deciding election)
Same link as above.
Back in 1960, Earl Mazo, now 81, was the Washington-based national political correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. After the election, he kept getting calls from reporter friends in Chicago who told him wild stories of election fraud there.
“They were in effect chastising me,” he recalls, “saying, ‘You national reporters, you’re missing the story, why don’t you come out and look?’ ”
So Mazo went out and looked. He went to Chicago, obtained lists of voters in precincts that seemed suspicious and started checking their addresses.
“There was a cemetery where the names on the tombstones were registered and voted,” he recalls. “I remember a house. It was completely gutted. There was nobody there. But there were 56 votes for Kennedy in that house.”