Here’s an important message from Linda LaFianza, Evanston Twp. GOP Committeeman:
This Sunday at noon, Tony Peraica will hold a press conference outside of Cook County Commissioner’s Larry Suffredin’s office at 820 Davis Street, Evanston. The purpose is to publicize and garner support for the motion Peraica wants to introduce at the next Cook County Commissioner’s meeting on July 23rd to repeal the sales tax increase that went into effect July 1.
You will recall that it was Suffredin’s change of vote that allowed the measure to pass. Peraica is seeking business owners to speak out on the impact of the sales tax increase that raised this county’s rate to 10.25%, the highest rate in the nation.
Please contact Linda LaFianza if you can attend, and if you are willing to speak. (847-971-8796)
ConservativeBrand was polled over the Independence Day weekend by Congressman Mark Kirk’s campaign. The pollster asked about support for Kirk’s special issues such as protecting kids from on-line predators and protecting North Shore beaches from pollution (a.k.a. the “suburban agenda”). This was followed by a question about whether it isn’t a good thing that the 10th District has a congressman who is “independent,” as opposed to one who follows a strict political party line. For the record, this blog is insulted that one of the most highly educated citizen pools in the country is expected to listen to a United States congressman talk about local issues that are on the fringe of real politics at best. ConservativeBrand also tends to value loyalty to the Republican agenda in its representatives, if only for reasons of safety. Republican pols who make deals across the aisle usually end up as compromisers, appeasers or sell-outs. And this will be more important than ever when new Supreme Court nominees come up for discussion.
Earlier this summer, ConservativeBrand also was polled by students from Northwestern’s Kellog School of Business; the conference call poll wanted to find out why people blog. Good question - one that might best be answered by the Kirk poll issues above. More specifically, most citizens don’t live just with “taxation without representation” (read Chicago, Cook County, the state of Illinois), but more broadly with representation without leadership. Blogs are the vehicle for communicating all the opinions and arguments that get overlooked or deleted from agendas because, on the bottom line, they might hinder some represetative’s re-election bid.
“Recently, I sent Limbaugh an e-mail message, his preferred means of long-distance communication, asking what his own presidential agenda would look like. His answer reflects his actual concerns. A Limbaugh administration would seek to:
1. Open the continental shelf to drilling. Ditto the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
2. Establish a 17 percent flat tax.
3. Privatize Social Security.
4. Give parents school vouchers to break the monopoly of public education.
5. Revoke Jimmy Carter’s passport while he is out of the country.
6. Abandon all government policies based on the hoax of man-made global warming.
No. 5 was a joke. I think.”
Check out the entire article at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06Limbaugh-t.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin.
