We’re marching on Saturday! Come out to cheer on Green Party candidates, including Tom Tresser, Rich Whitney (Governor) and LeAlan Jones (U.S. Senate) as they march in the St. Patrick’’s Day Parade on Saturday, March 13 at 12pm on Columbus Drive by the Art Institute.
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Why Are Green Party Candidates Better? from Tom Tresser on Vimeo. If you agree with our assessment of Illinois politics, then JOIN US! Sign up for the Illinois Green Party email newsletter. Join the Illinois Green Party! The February Primary is over. The three-way race for Cook County Board President will be between Roger Keats (Republican), Toni Preckwinkle (Democrat) and Tom Tresser (Green). View election results here. Stay tuned.. I launched my campaign officially Saturday at a full house at Jak’s Tap. We had music, song, rap (thanks to Lenny Zieben, Victoria Sometani and Corinna and Charles of Unearthed) and speeches. We launched “Arts 4 Tresser” and signed people up for house parties, community organizing, media work and more! Download a copy of my [...] Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:38 — 3.3MB) pp_flashembed( Podcast: Play in new window We’re going to have a launch party and rally on Saturday, January 30, at 11:30am at [...] From Dr. Linda Shelton’s profile of Tom in the Chicago Examiner: Tom Tresser, a long-time arts activist, prolific community development practitioner and consultant, organizer and educator, is an announced candidate for President for the Cook County Board of Commissioners. He is emerging as the dark horse candidate because, although a tenacious and talented activist and educator, [...] It keeps getting hotter and hotter until you're cooked! The Cook County Political Buzz Examiner, Kelli Kobor, wonders when Chicagoans will get mad enough to fire Da Machine. There is no way to put this delicately, so I won’t even try. Chicago, you are like the proverbial frog in the pan of water that is slowly [...] From the Skyline Press’s year-end review of top news stories: An Olympic-sized loss The story of the year was the city’s failed bid for the 2016 Olympics. With nearly $75 million spent on the three-year bid campaign alone, shock and disbelief were the moods du jour when Chicago was dismissed in the first round of the International [...] Mike Volpe, the intrepid online political commentator for The Provacateur, interviewed me the other day about the connections between corruption in the city of Chicago and the county of Cook. He writes: “I first met up with Tom Tresser when I went to my first Olympics town hall event in the summer. Tresser lead the citizen activist [...] Watch this brief (under 4 minute) video of Tom’s remarks at a recent event for Green Party candidate Matt Reichel (5th CD). Download text of the remarks. 
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