Local: A communique from the Resistance
The following message was printed on a single frame of microfilm, stored inside a hollow coin and left on the counter by a “patron” at Whitey’s Tip Top Tavern. I palmed it, and left another coin in its place, lest the bartender get suspicious. Its contents:
Greetings to all!
Peoria County voters are in the final stretch of the election cycle. Both sides have made progress to spread the word to many Peoria County voters who had previously not known about this binding referendum. Regrettably, there are many neighbors who do not know about this important issue. Perhaps you will take this opportunity to share this message with your neighbors.
The last two Town Hall Meetings will be held, tomorrow, April 4 at the following locations.
09:00 AM @ ”Hanna City Fire House”, Logan-Trivoli Fire District, 212 N. Main Street, Hanna City
01:00 PM @ Illini Bluffs High School, 212 N. Saylor St., Glasford
We encourage you to contact all your family and friends in Peoria County and then have them contact their family and friends in Peoria County and so on and so on to get out the vote on Tuesday. You can be part of our free word-of-mouth or email advertising program by encouraging everyone to vote.
For information regarding building the block, you can review the museum supporters information at www.buildtheblock.org and www.friendsofbuildtheblock.org.
Citizens for Responsible Spending (CFRS) advocates for your NO vote.
Wrong plan. Wrong funding mechanism. Wrong time.
A better block can be built.
It is imperative that registered voters participate in the election process by casting a vote on this issue, whether for or against.
Additional information, telling ‘the rest of the story” is available at our website — www.nomuseumtax.org. By clicking the media link, there are recent press releases available for viewing and printing as well as a printable flyer.
Yard signs are available for pick-up. Please send your name and address to nomuseumtax@yahoo.com to arrange to pick-up a sign at the location nearest to you. First come first serve as they are going fast!
It is your community, your voice, your money and your decision..
Thank you for taking part in our democratic republic by voting on April 7.
Cordially,
Karrie E. Alms
Chairman, CFRS
Don’t let Karrie’s chatty, friendly tone fool you. This is the political fight of this generation.
This is deadly serious. We are the Underground. We are the Maquis. We are the Resistance. We are in opposition to the Powers-That-Be. We stand in opposition to the Movers and Shakers who have met in secret and decided our fate for far too long. These are people who have stretched the limits of laws desided to prevent politicians from campaigning for referendum passage. They have silenced critics from speaking at their rigged eduational forums. They have send vandals to destroy campaign signs they oppose.
THIS is our line in the sand. We are going to go into the voting booths on Tuesday and cast our votes knowing that no matter how many emails out bosses send us, they CANNOT tell us how to vote. We have disproven their lies, again and again. Caterpillar is NOT going to live. The numbers thay have given us are fabricated.
This is where we tell our politicians that the era in which they can do whatever Caterpillar tells them to do is ended. WE run our government. Not them.
This is where we say “no more.” Just because Caterpillar wants it, that does not mean we have to bend over and take it. I am sick of our so-called-leaders studying the face and body posture of whothehell ever happens to be running Cat at any given moment for direction in how they are supposed to vte. I want my leaders to represent the PEOPLE who live in Peoria.
I am sick of an unethical daily newspaper that insists on lying to readers that Caterpillar MIGHT be leaving if we don’t vote the right way — even though that was disproven.
It’s time we take our government back!
When you go to vote on April 7, you can vote any damn way you want. There is NOTHING they can do to stop you.
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Voter turnout, generously, 15%.
Please let me be wrong, but … (SIGH)
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:16 pm
i also worry that the buld-the-block folks voter-turnout machines might triumph over the voice of reason and restraint. i hope i am wrong. i hope to god i am wrong.
April 4th, 2009 at 2:30 am
Billy, you have seriously got to lay off the sci-fi’s.
April 4th, 2009 at 6:36 am
Diane: That’s the first thing the Borg will do: Ban all sci-fi.
April 4th, 2009 at 10:59 am
I find it hard to believe people can see the schools closing but still vote for a new museum! I hope they wake up and show up to vote against it. I sure will.
Jeff …
April 4th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Well Jeff perhaps you can look at it like if they are going to close all of our schools the kids are going to need to get an education somewhere…
April 5th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
WTF Bill, I thought you had drunk the museum kool-aid.