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Here’s Why Cities, Counties and States Are Going Broke…

Find out more about what the war has cost the taxpayers of Illinois, Cook County and Chicago. You might want to be seated when you see how many billions Illinois taxpayers have spent on war over the past [...]

Illinois Is Bankrupt – Had Enough?

Hire Rich Whitney, Green Party candidate for Governor, to fix this mess!

From the Northbrook based Institute for Truth on Accounting. From their press release:

The Institute’s reports the state has only $20 billion of assets to cover $140.6 billion in bills —- a $120.6 billion shortfall.  Each Illinois taxpayer’s share is $29,200. This precarious financial position [...]

Had Enough? Vote for Rich Whitney

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Watch Tom on ABC News Chicago’s “NewsViews”

Like what you hear? I’m looking for 100 donors at $100.00. Small change for big change!

Donate online via DonationPages. You can mail a check made out to “Friends of Tom Tresser” to 333 W. North Avenue #154, Chicago [...]

Green Party Marches @ Billiken Day Parade

Tom, LeAlan , Rich and the Green Team marched on Saturday, August 14 in the  2010 Bud Billiken Day Parade. It was hot as the dickens but we all had a great time and met thousands and thousands of parade-goers who cheered and encouraged our call for REAL change in 2010!

Photos by Adam Snow – [...]

The Cost of War for Cook County

What could Cook County have done with the $25 billion county taxpayers spent on the wars in the Mideast since 2001?

But it’s bad all over America. The front page of the August 7 New York Times ran a story headlined “Budget Ax Falls, and Schools and Streetlights  Go Dark.”

End the wars now. Elect Green Party candidates [...]

Activist Titan Says “I’m With Whitney”

Doug Dobmeyer is a titan of social change activism in Chicago. Here’s just a sampling of his accomplishments: Executive Director, The Public Welfare Coalition, Chicago, 1986-1994;Lobbyist on low-income and campaign finance issues in Springfield, 1986-1996, President of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, Chicago, 1985-1987;Member of the Mayor’s Task Force on the Homeless, Chicago, 1983-1989;Project Director for several reports on poverty issues; and Past member of three statewide councils on poverty and homeless issues (1989-1994).

I had the good fortune to work with Doug in the early 1990′s when he led a state-wide coalition against Mayor Daley’s push to get land-based gambling in Chicago. We won that fight.

Read his column “I’m With Whitney” from the Beachwood Reporter.

I’m With Whitney

By Doug Dobmeyer

I am sick of Illinois politics as we know it today! Blind abeyance to massive debt and unbalanced budgets are now the norm. This well entrenched corrupt political system has only expanded in the 39 years since my coming to Chicago in 1971.

So, I’m going to do something to work for change. I’ve decided a third party is a viable option. I’m volunteering with the Green Party doing media for the Rich Whitney candidacy for governor. Whitley is a civil rights lawyer from Carbondale is the Green Party’s candidate for governor.

In the latest poll he was at nine percent of the vote. In 2006 he received 10 percent of the statewide vote.

As you know I have been a Democrat all my life. I have voted for a few Republicans along the way. The two usual party candidates for governor are dismal at best. One, Bill Brady, the Republican was born with the word NO on the tip of his tongue. Pat Quinn the Democratic incumbent and a friend for 25 years has become a disappointment since he took over from the disgraced former Governor Rod Blagojevich. Unfortunately Pat has moved away from previous positions that had formed our friendship. He’s just another Springfield politician now.

So, I intend to do what I can for Whitney to make him more of a viable candidate that could result in his being Illinois’ next governor.
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Tom on Fox News Sunday

Watch Tom on Fox News Sunday, August 1, 8:30am. Listen to veteran political reporter Mike Flannery’s assessment of the corruption in [...]

Ready for a Third Party? Bet Your Tush!

Here’s what Southtown Star columnist Kristen McQueary had to say…

As Illinois voters, we sit anxiously, curiously, awaiting a verdict in Rod Blagojevich’s corruption trial. George Ryan counts the days toward his release from federal prison.

They were our picks: A young politician with wavy hair who promised to end Illinois’ sleazy political culture; a gravelly-voiced old-timer with [...]

Poverty Up In Illinois – Had Enough?

The 2010 “Kids Count” report is out and, once again, Illinois post dismal numbers. Here’s one trend that’s particularly galling. While our Democratic and Republican political leaders fiddled and plunged our state into a bottomless fiscal melt-down, hundreds of thousands of children and adults moved into poverty. Right now, the state of Illinois owes nonprofit service [...]