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Springfield is stuck — really stuck — in the muck of power and partisan politics. On Election Day, voters fed up with the squabbling and the abysmal lack of leadership will be looking for a fix.
Awaiting them on the ballot is, at first blush, a tempting option: a vote on whether to hold a convention to revise the state’s Constitution.
A constitutional convention, proponents say, would let ordinary folks take matters into their own hands and fix the structural weaknesses of state governance that have led to gridlock. Equally attractive, they say, it would give grassroot reformers a chance to circumvent the gridlocked political process and solve major policy problems that have festered for decades. If nothing else, a “yes” vote would send a message of disgust to our dysfunctional Legislature — and who doesn’t want that?
It’s tempting, all right. But don’t do it.
Click here to continue reading the Chicago Sun Times editorial opposing a constitutional convention.
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Monday, Oct 13, 08 @ 10:45 am
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