Skokie Mayor Moves To Block Voter-Initiated Referendums From Ballot – Patch Skokie

Facing a citizen-initiated referendum campaign from a group called the Skokie Alliance for Electoral Reform, Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen placed on Monday’s village board agenda a trio of resolutions calling for three nonbinding advisory questions to appear on the November ballot. The Alliance’s proposals include: staggered elections, a mix of at-large and district-level village trustees and, in perhaps the biggest threat to the Skokie Caucus Party’s six-decade rule of the village board, nonpartisan elections.

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Cory Franklin: Ousted Prosecutor Chesa Boudin and Family Karma – John Kass News

“Mom Kathy was a high-profile member of the Weathermen, the terrorist organization that emulated the tactics of Mao Tse-Tung…Return to those thrilling days of yesteryear, the 1980s, when Kathy Boudin and Chesa’s father, David Gilbert, were getaway drivers in a Brink’s robbery in which a guard and two policemen were killed…While his parents were imprisoned, Chesa Boudin was raised in Chicago by Weathermen superstars Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers.”

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