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Leading newspapers across the state are urging a no vote on the constitutional convention question on November 4th. They recognize a constitutional convention would be expensive and not solve the state’s problems, only serving to put a strong document at-risk and turn power over to the very people who’ve created the state’s problems.

Dysfunctional state needs leadership, not a convention - Rockford Register-Star, October 26

“The Illinois Constitution is a good machine that has been driven off the road by incompetent politicians.”

Leaders need changing, not the constitution - Southern Illinoisan, October 26

“The troubles with our state government have less to do with the constitution, created in 1970 and often cited as a model for other states, than with the faulty leadership of our state.”

Politics, not constitution, state’s problem, vote no - Moline Dispatch – Rock Island Argus, October 26

“We fear that those who will win the power to clean up the system are the ones who made the mess in the first place: politicians, political leaders and special interests.”

Don’t vote for a new constitutional convention - Chicago Sun-Times, October 9

Vote “no” on constitutional convention - Daily Herald, October 20

Vote no on con-con question - Pioneer Press, September 27