Constitutional Convention for Illinois

Tribune columnist Eric Zorn has a column today bemoaning the "shenanigans" of the legislators on efforts to place a recall provision on the ballot this November.

Is this the same Eric Zorn who wrote a couple months ago that we've got absolutely no chance of winning the vote on holding a new constitutional convention on November 4?

Springfield just keeps providing us with more and more examples of exactly why the citizens of Illinois have to take matters into our own hands and exercise our right to change the way they do business.

With a new constitutional convention we can get recall and several other things put into the state constitution that will take power away from the Springfield establishment and put it back in the hands of the people, which is supposedly the idea behind democracy in the first place.

It will be interesting to see what happens if and when this recall provision, which is the darling of the Tribune, fails to get on the ballot. Will the Tribune, including Zorn, come out in favor of the constitutional convention, or will they wring their hands and bemoan the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the system.

There is something we can do to change the system. It is an opportunity that comes along only once every twenty years. We can vote "yes" on November 4 to have a new constitutional convention in Illinois and send a message to Springfield that the "shenanigans" or whatever you want to call them are not acceptable.