Stop fussing over somebody else’s bedroom practices! Yours are bad enough, so don’t point the finger at others. I don’t know anything good about abortion, but if you want to make an issue about it, make sure, absolutely without question sure, that you have means to appropriately, and compassionately deal with the issues that bring people to make the choice to terminate pregnancies. All of them! Not everybody has the opportunities and abilities, and privileges that you do! “Just say no” is not the answer! There is a reason that our party is called “the party of no”. Stop giving it some legitimacy!

Remember this too: stop throwing stones, because YOU DO live in a glass house. Mudslinging only turns everything into a giant pig sty! It is not about winning at any cost. We cannot afford the costs you pile onto us. It is about providing us with more bang for our buck. Rather than dwell on the negatives of your opponents, provide positives to earn our votes. As much as you believe otherwise, you do not deserve our votes, you must EARN them! Stop believing your consultants and campaign managers, when they tell you that attacking your opponents’ faults will gain you votes. Your opponent will do the same, and then we the voters are left with choosing the lesser of two evils. That is not winning, it is losing!!!!! If you insist on pointing your finger in accusation, start pointing at the person in your mirror!

Offer the voters winning ideas and actions. Make them pragmatic, effective, and thoughtful, but most important make them realistic and easily implemented. “Feel good” issues are like passing gas in an elevator. You are the only one who feels good about it! Sure, everybody in the elevator smiles at first, but it doesn’t take long for the elevator to empty out at the next floor!

If you do earn our favor, and get elected to office, follow through on your campaign promises! How is all this hope and change working for us now??? Always remember that you are an employee of your constituents. Your constituents are not banks, drug manufacturers, oil corporations, mining corporations, construction contractors, etc. etc. So stop putting your hand out to corporate lobbyists. Yes, of course they have the right to lobby ( yes, there is a legitimate question to this! ), but they do not have the right to make you there puppet, so you can get re-elected. When you take their money, you will become their puppet. Of course you don’t believe this, but it always happens. ALWAYS!!! Stop being a legend in your own mind. You are not as good as you think you are. If you want to get re-elected, it is not about how much money you can earn, it is about how much confidence, trust, and respect you earn, through hard work, honesty, and accomplishments.

Most of your accomplishments are not worthy of media sound bites, and photo opportunities. Your accomplishments are your job. This is what you were sent to office to do. Stop congratulating yourself. If you do something worthy of praise, it will come to you. You do not need to go chasing after it. You will only be chasing your own tail!

Alright alright, yes, everything I just wrote is full of tired clichés, but so is everything you have ever campaigned on! Just do a good, honest, humble and fair job, and you will be amazed how far this will take you! Please, go ahead and do this, it is expected of you. Illinois has become the brunt of many political jokes, stop feeding this reality!

Thanks and best regards,

Sam Pyne

#1, All pension from last year in official civil service rank. If appointed from one rank to that of another higher than Pension is from orginal rank.

#2, All Pensions will be the higher of any two pension or more, Example, City worker, fire, Police etc., elected official, appointed to position, instead of collecting on all three pension than only the highest will be used, Military and Social Security does not count.

#3, All Pension will be from the last year, or contract at time of retirement. Change last day to set pension.

#4, Mariage, just before retirement, if one year than pension for one year, Pro rated, twenty years or more than pension for life.

#5, Hospital insurance should cost employee the same as if he/she were working.

Every other state in the union offers it’s citizens the rights given by the United States Constitution.

Why does Illinois deny this right to citizens, while allowing it for it’s “political class”?

End “Sanctuary city/ county/ state status…NOW!

How much does it cost our government, on every level, to support people that are not here legally? You want to talk budget savings, trim off the expense of people who have no claim tot he services they readily take advantage of.

Pension reform/ elimination … NOW!

Those of the “political class” whom have their future secured by government union pension(s), need to have those benefits trimmed to a manageable level.

Those new hires/ newly elected “political class” / government union types need to have the pension system eliminated completely, and go to a 401k type plan…like the common working class have.

DO SOMETHING…NOW!

I see a litany of HB numbers, proposals, and suggestions. What I don’t see is ANY sense of urgency from Springfield…at any level. The only urgency I see is Governor Quinn wanting to raise my taxes.

This site started out with a bang, but quickly fizzled out because not one suggestion, that I have seen, has been acted on with any amount of urgency. It’s like the “political class” wanted to act like they had interest in the “common mans” plight, only to ignore it. Some sort of action needs to happen, and happen now. Enough debate. Enough study. Enough commissions. Time for action. This body has been given some great ideas…make something happen.

This too I’m sure was a waste of effort, but hopefully someone on the receiving end of this will pass along the people’s frustration with the status quo. November is coming, and incumbents need be aware, the voters are just as aware on inaction as they are of bad action.