Call to action 8/6 for quick take

[momto4]

wvhsparent said:

momto4 said:

And the fact that she seemed to be going along with their wishes.

Can't completely fault her for trying to do what her constituents wanted......I question her methods of going about it though.

Do ya think she could have believed for one moment that this is what the majority of her constituents wanted, rather than a small and wealthy subset?

Does anyone have a link that shows the IL house and senate districts? I'm not sure what the boundaries of Linda Holmes' district, or even my own, are and couldn't find it anywhere last time I looked.

[EagleDad]

To find your district, check with your county board of elections. I know that I am in Joe Dunn's district. But before you write her off altogether let's watch what she does. She now knows what the voters want and how she chooses to act will predict her future in my book as this is a critical and deciding issue in my book.

After all the only reason as elect these representatives is to, well represent us downstate anddurther things important to our district.

[justme]

eagledad said:

To find your district, check with your county board of elections. I know that I am in Joe Dunn's district. But before you write her off altogether let's watch what she does. She now knows what the voters want and how she chooses to act will predict her future in my book as this is a critical and deciding issue in my book.

After all the only reason as elect these representatives is to, well represent us downstate anddurther things important to our district.

If she isn't our rep. then do we even get to vote for her?

[momto4]

justme said:

eagledad said:

To find your district, check with your county board of elections. I know that I am in Joe Dunn's district. But before you write her off altogether let's watch what she does. She now knows what the voters want and how she chooses to act will predict her future in my book as this is a critical and deciding issue in my book.

After all the only reason as elect these representatives is to, well represent us downstate anddurther things important to our district.

If she isn't our rep. then do we even get to vote for her?

She is not the rep for many of us in the district, me included, but what she does definitely has an impact on us! I cannot vote for her but I can help her or her opponent with their campaign next time around.

[wvhsparent]

www.illinoisatlas.com/illinois/political/html/il_legdist_chicago.htm

Here you can check who your elected officials are:

www.elections.il.gov/DistrictLocator/SelectSearchType.aspx?NavLink=1

[EagleDad]

I'm sorry, I was being a goof - I should known better - Joe is my Rep (96th), Linda is a Senator and I think her district is down south overlapping a small protion of 204. Randy Hultgren is my senator (48th) and likely many in D204. From what understand he has been very supportive of the district.

No I don't vote directly for Linda, but in an area such as ours, I think there's a great deal of bleed through and having many friends new in her district who don't follow things very closely, but turn to me for input never hurt. Heck, I even have a good college friend who just bought and moved into Ashwood Creek coming from the city.

I really think she is trying to do the right thing. I was greatly impressed that a staffer put me right through to her on Monday. I think she really was listening to the community which she probably needs to do as if I recall she had a challenge in '06 keeping the seat against Terri Ann Wintermute who will be back in Fall '08 as well.

I should have taken the chance to get her views on the tax swap issues (property taxes "promised hypothetical" reductions for a 6% (double) income tax), that would be real interesting.

[EagleDad]

That's a good map. parent. it's too bad it doesn't have roads on it (can anyone eyeball 59 and 75 th or 95th?)

Linda's district is 42, Randy's is 48 on the map.

[wvhsparent]

eagledad said:

That's a good map. parent. it's too bad it doesn't have roads on it (can anyone eyeball 59 and 75 th or 95th?)

Linda's district is 42, Randy's is 46 on the map.

The south end of DuPage is 87th St, so just a tad north of the county line

[EagleDad]

An even better map (thanks GM!), with street level detail (I wish I could see it over to Eola/Farnsworth) . An interesting, small segment of D204 is represented by Linda (south half of White Eagle, west half of Tallgrass, both Ashwood's):

www.naperville.il.us/emplibrary/legbnd_7224x36.pdf

Whole lot of Macom Corp devolpments in that area (White Eagle, Ashwood Creek, Ashwood Park, Tamarack South, the whole 95th/59 theater area, and I've heard they have a big hunka land at 248th/Wolf's Crossing also ). Just an observation.

The bulk of 204 is Randy Hultgren.

[EagleDad]

Found my answer on tax swap, seems Linda was a bit of a tax swap fan in '06:
www.ledgersentinel.com/article.asp?a=5574

Holmes said legislative proposals such as Senate Bill 750 which propose shift the primary source of school funding from local property taxes to the state income tax “have some merit” but would first want to see how such legislation would affect families in the district.

“Will the income tax revenues really be dedicated to schools and education? Will it be a sustainable source of funding for education over the long-term?” she asked, adding, “In concept, it sounds good, but there are a lot of questions to be answered.”

From the same article Wintermute did not seem to be a tax swap supporter:

“The idea of a (funding) swap does make some sense, but at the same time where I see people fighting it is that they are afraid they will lose local control,” Wintermute said. “If we move from property taxes to income taxes, we need to have an equitable offset. We can’t just tell the Oswego School District we’re going to go from property taxes to incomes taxes and, by the way, you’re going to receive less money. No district can be harmed by this, absolutely.”

[gatormom]

eagledad said:

An even better map (thanks GM!), with street level detail (I wish I could see it over to Eola/Farnsworth) . An interesting, small segment of D204 is represented by Linda (south half of White Eagle, west half of Tallgrass, both Ashwood's):

www.naperville.il.us/emplibrary/legbnd_7224x36.pdf

Whole lot of Macom Corp devolpments in that area (White Eagle, Ashwood Creek, Ashwood Park, Tamarack South, the whole 95th/59 theater area, and I've heard they have a big hunka land at 248th/Wolf's Crossing also ). Just an observation.

The bulk of 204 is Randy Hultgren.

The area around Gombert school in Aurora is in Linda Holmes district. I think that is the extent of D204 in Aurora in her district. Without a clear map, hard to tell.

[harry]

proschool said:

My wife got another note from AT. Today Apparently the senator is behind the district now. AT is asking everyone to please stop calling the senatos office.

Me thinks her phone continues to ring from QT opposers and voters who oppose the current and FLEXIBLE boundaries.

[gatormom]

harry said:

proschool said:

My wife got another note from AT. Today Apparently the senator is behind the district now. AT is asking everyone to please stop calling the senatos office.

Me thinks her phone continues to ring from QT opposers and voters who oppose the current and FLEXIBLE boundaries.

If the boundaries were so flexible, why didn't the district take the deal? Me thinks you are wrong.

[harry]

gatormom said:

harry said:

Me thinks her phone continues to ring from QT opposers and voters who oppose the current and FLEXIBLE boundaries.

If the boundaries were so flexible, why didn't the district take the deal? Me thinks you are wrong.

Because they will wait and make one huge brushstroke of boundary changes just before the 2009/10 opening, and if they are lucky, after the 2009 ref passes...or not.

[bob]

harry said:

gatormom said:

If the boundaries were so flexible, why didn't the district take the deal? Me thinks you are wrong.

Because they will wait and make one huge brushstroke of boundary changes just before the 2009/10 opening, and if they are lucky, after the 2009 ref passes...or not.

Thanks for the laugh.