OMG, They're like cockroaches... Pukes challenge local elections

[never cry wolf]

I could hardly believe my eyes when I was reading the Tribune Metro section at lunch today. The repukes are making nit picking challenges to suburban Chicago library boards!

Check it out:

Laura Guderley figured her baptism into electoral politics would be gentle. After all, she just wanted to become a trustee of the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, a post that usually spawns less controversy than an issue of Ranger Rick.

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People running in five Chicago-area library districts this year have seen their candidacies challenged, sometimes on the fussiest technicalities: using paper clips instead of staples to bind papers or filing documents too early.

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No district has seen more challenges this year than the Cook Memorial Public Library in Libertyville. Raymond True, who has been active in Republican politics, objected to the petitions of five candidates.

He said he noticed numerous problems after spending days combing the papers of the 11 people chasing five seats. He challenged them, he said, because "if somebody wants to run for office, they should spend the time and do it properly."

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Freaking LIBRARY BOARDS! Usually in this area the major parties aren't even represented in these races. Some of the technicalities they used to challenge candidates included files paperwork using paper clips instead of staples, not numbering the names on a nominating petition, filing a routine form too early.

Typical puke tactics but I had never seen them on this local of a scale. They want it all, goddamn it.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

[FreedomAngel82]

1. That is crazy!!!!

They want to control it all. :\ Greedy aren't they? :grr: Didn't their parents ever teach them how to share and be fair?

[Nimrod]

2. Magic words: Republican Assembly

Beware these people! THESE are the Christian reconstructionists everyone talks about but nobody seems to see very often.

It's no surprise they would want control of the libraries because that is a big step in controlling the dispensing of information.

[MadHound]

3. Really this is not suprising

The Pukes want control of every informational and educational center that they can get. They've been quite successful nationwide with packing the schoolboards, now they're going to go after the library boards. Thus they can ban books as they please, and implement the Patriot Act to the fullest extent possible.

This is all about indoctrinating our young people, and ratting out the rest of us. Control what gets put in peoples' minds, and you control the person. This is the same tactic used by the MSM, and now they are going after the intelligent, book reading segment of the population that is remaining.

Pretty soon they will figure out a way to go after the booksellers also.

[never cry wolf]

5. I was kinda under the impression they just didn't like the taxes...

and I am sure they don't, but you have a point. I doubt that my puke neighbors are consciuosly trying to control the flow of information, but who knows. Word could have been passed down from above and they are just doing as they are told...

I dunno, in any case it saddends me greatly...

[geniph]

4. There's a damn good reason for that

Librarians, on the whole, tend to have a fairly liberal/libertarian bent and believe in the free sharing of knowledge and information. that mindset is anathema to the authoritarian worldview that a lot of extreme rightwingers believe in. If they can take over library boards, then they can control the dissemination of public information. One of the first battles they usually fight is trying to censor information, whether by banning books or installing mandatory Internet filters for all library patrons.

Until we learn to fight them in the local battles, we won't win the national ones. The statewide and national political figures come from the ranks of the local politicians. School and library boards are a traditional place to start in politics - it's where you get name recognition to proceed to city council, state representative, etc. It's a very long-term strategy, and one we should be emulating. We should be fighting for every election to dogcatcher, sanitation board, everything.

[never cry wolf]

6. I agree with you

It's just that I have never seen the major party partisanship on such a localized level in my area before.

Sure, there are political battles but it's usually between the "Citizens First" party vs. the "Township United" party or some such moniker...

I agree with you that we do need to fight for every race, locally and nationally, or we WILL be buried.

[okieinpain]

7. so this moore lady got kicked out because she filed EARLY?

[never cry wolf]

8. It wasn't even her filing

At first she was challenged for using paper clips instead of staples, but that challenge was denied.

In Illinois, all public office holders have to file a Statement of Economic Interest every year. Even appointed seats such as plan commissioner, like me. It's a boiler plate 2 page 5 question form asking you if you have any conflicts of interest. I write down "no" 5 times and mail it back.

Apparently, after the paper clip challenge failed, they discovered she sent in her economic interest statement for 2005 in December of 2004 which got her booted off the ballot.

Thoroughly disgusting, she had been on the board since 1971... there is a photo of her in the print version that is just heartbreaking... She has probably spent half her life, or more, on the board, that is a large part of her life and how she sees herself, I am sure. She looks absolutely devastated...

fuckers, assholes, grrrrrrrrrrrr

[Walt Starr]

9. They think that controlling the libraries will control minds

They are forgetting about the internets.

[EC]

10. Was just reading it,

you know darn well, it's the budget, they want to fill the libraries with Creationist literature and non-science, or just push the money into the party coffers, since the Republican party is all but dead in Illinois...

[Moderator]

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[never cry wolf]

12. How about 16 sentences in lieu of 4 para's?

Sorry, Mr. Mod... I knew I was pushin the envelope, but when there are one sentence para's in a long article... ??????

Special dispensation???

s'il vous plait??

merci

edit if you must, but i suspect this will drop like a rock anyway...

thx for helping DU!

[raysr]

13. That's how they've

gotten where they are now, baby steps!

[ComerPerro]

14. They want it all

and if you control the library boards, you control what people read.