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TWO TERM LIMITS FOR ALDERMEN AND ALDERWOMEN

The people would like to enact a two term limit on our local aldermen and alderwoman. For far to many years our local politicians have gained control over seats to never let go and manipulated the system by gerrymandering, voter suppression and other methods of controlling our neighborhoods. Illinois has many examples of this and we believe enough is enough. We want Aldermen and Alderwoman to complete their two terms and move on.

Why is this important?

Decades upon decades I witnessed as our local politicians take advantage of our communities and of the will of the people. They know the statistics and averages and how to get people activated and how to keep people inactive. Politicians in office know that people who don’t vote are the same people who say things will never change and are completely discouraged from partaking in our local politics and activities. They see the same politicians election after election making the same decisions and believe deep down inside that things will never change and that their one vote could never count. Politicians take advantage of this and allow themselves to get reelected over and over while not activating any new community members to get involved in our local government. The same voters vote for them year after year, and have no interest in encouraging the youth or new community members to get involved. Those that benefit from a politician being seated for decades are the ones that will vote and are the ones that will activate more voters like them to get the result they want.

The people of Illinois are an example of these problems that come from politicians holding seats for far too long! We've had so many of our recent politicians go to jail because of their illegalities just slipping through the cracks, yet they were voted in election after election. At any given time an Illinois politician is under investigation and this is not right! Right now on this date 11/23/2020, the Mayor of Chicago, several Aldermen and woman and the decision to allow General Iron to move locations from the North side of Chicago to the South Side of Chicago is under investigation. This example is the #StopGeneralIron movement. Setting term limits will put an end to many of these problems.

When we place two term limits on our local Aldermen and women it will activate more people to get involved in our government with each election and we will have a better and more current representation of the will of the people. Imagine knowing that when elections come up people will actually be working to build a better community and working towards activating new voters instead of manipulating our local government against the will of the people and suppressing our voters. The goal is to have as many people active in our local politics every four years not just when our community is at rock bottom! Setting a two a term limit to Aldermen and women will contribute to building a bigger and better community, involved and engaged and will also detour any local loyalist who will do the most to work against the will of the people. Please sign this petition for the good of the people! Thank You!

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2022-06-06 14:22:43 -0400

50 signatures reached

2020-11-30 15:44:40 -0500

25 signatures reached

2020-11-23 21:07:48 -0500

10 signatures reached

2020-11-23 14:35:52 -0500

Today is the first day of this campaign, 11/23/2020. Please help us get to 100,000 signatures in #30days!