Within the district, I spoke on legislative panels hosted by the Palatine and Hoffman Estates Chambers of Commerce in the month of September, and in the next two weeks, I will be speaking at legislative panels in Barrington and at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge.
This effort is a grassroots movement to call a constitutional convention via the state legislatures (as delineated in Article V of the Constitution) so that we can impose constitutional restraints on our runaway federal government. Even though the problems we face as a state are pressing and it is unlikely that Illinois will be one of the 38 necessary states to pass the resolution to call a convention, if this effort does pick up momentum, an Illinois delegation will necessarily be part of this convention. I wanted to learn as much as possible about the effort so that I can draw from this experience if the time comes.
Before we return to Springfield in November and things begin to pick up on the legislative front, I would like to hear from my constituents about issues of state government that are important to them. Please call my office (847-202-6584) if you would like to schedule a meeting in my office or would like to set up a time to speak on the phone.