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Published on Monday, November 3, 2008
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Cost for Con-Con too much for what will come out of it


By LETTER WRITER
Last updated on 00/00/0000 at 12:00 a.m.

Supporters tell us that we need a Con-Con to change the way things are done in the State of Illinois for the betterment of its citizens. Well, supporters better think again. The estimated cost to campaign for election as a Con-Con delegate is $225,000. (That’s the estimated cost per delegate.) Average folks don’t have that kind of money normally and certainly not during difficult financial times. But special interest groups do. You can bet they’ll be happy to pay for the election of delegates to represent their interests. As a result, the Con-Con would be dominated by special interest groups amending the State of Illinois’s Constitution to suit their own agendas. Wouldn’t that be a big improvement? Vote No on the Con-Con question.

Sharon Pflaumer,
NIU alumna

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