Title: COS Illinois Welcomes Rob Martwick & Dwight Kay
Original CoS Document (slug): cos-illinois-welcomes-rob-martwick-dwight-kay
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Created: 2016-02-19 13:33:00
Updated: 2019-01-04 05:36:36
Published: 2016-02-18 19:00:00
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The Convention of States Project Illinois Team proudly welcomes Representatives Rob Martwick (D-Chicago) & Dwight Kay (R-Edwardsville) to the growing list of bipartisan sponsors of HJR115.
From one end of the state to the other, Illinois voters of both parties are waking up to the fact that their neighbors are not the enemy: fraud, waste, and cronyism are. And there's no bigger perpetrator of these than the federal government.
~Vickie Deppe, Illinois Legislative Liaison
The Founders foresaw this situation and provided a remedy in Article V of the Constitution. It empowers state legislatures across the nation to join forces to impose reforms on Washington, D.C., that we can't expect Congress to undertake any time soon. And because neither party controls enough state legislatures to hijack the process, only the most common-sense, broadly supported measures will make it across the finish line to ratification.
Please phone your Representative and ask that they sign on to HJR61 as a co-sponsor. You can access talking points here. If you don't know who your legislators are, you can find out here. (A new window will open at OpenStates.org.)
And if you haven't yet signed our on-line petition, you can do that here. Please be sure to provide your complete street address so we can route your petition to the correct legislators. You can use the buttons below to SHARE with your friends.
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