While the Illinois General Assembly has yet to create jobs, pass a balanced budget, or find a way to fund the $80B pension liability, they did a very courageous thing during veto session by passing a civil unions bill.\u00a0 This strikes me as one of the biggest “change” votes taken by the ILGA and perhaps the biggest act of courage in my memory. It was a positive step forward for residents of Illinois as we seek to join other states who view equality as a centerpiece for social and economic justice.<\/p>\n
In the 21st century, I find it hard to believe that there are still people in Springfield and Washington who honestly feel that some in our society should be treated like second class citizens in the eyes of the government. But, some still voted \u201cnay.\u201d You can see the entire Senate vote here<\/a>. You can see the entire House vote here<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you agree that this is a good step for Illinois, please call or write members in the Fox Valley to let express appreciation or disappointment.\u00a0 Altough he has delayed signing the bill until 2011<\/a>, it is expected that Governor Quinn (312-814-2121 \/ Online Contact Form<\/a>) will sign the bill.\u00a0 It probably does not hurt to send the Governor a\u00a0note to thank him for his support of equality.\u00a0 See list of Fox Valley Representatives below.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Voted YES: Voted NO: While the Illinois General Assembly has yet to create jobs, pass a balanced budget, or find a way to fund the $80B pension liability, they did a very courageous thing during veto session by passing a civil unions bill.\u00a0 This strikes me as one of the biggest “change” votes taken by the ILGA and perhaps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[175,485,2874,2869,141,260,483,10,117,156,482,473,481,45,484,261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nState Senator Michael Noland (D) – senator@noland.org<\/a> \/ 847.214.8864
\nState Senator Linda Holmes (D) – lindaholmes@gmail.com<\/a> \/ 815.609.3711
\nState Representative Keith Farnham (D) – krfarnham@gmail.com<\/a> \/ 630.264.2334<\/p>\n
\nState Senator Chris Lauzen (R) \u2013 630.264.2334
\nState Representative Linda Chapa LaVia (D) \u2013 630.264.6855
\nState Representative Tom Cross (R) \u2013 815.254.0000
\nState Representative Kay Hatcher (R) \u2013 630.553.3223
\nState Representative Tim Schmitz (R) \u2013 630.845.9590
\nState Representative Mike Fortner (R) \u2013 630.293.9344<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"