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synapse posted:I voted in person in Dupage County. The first thing that shows up is the amendment in full screen. It feels different than the rest of the ballot. Someone voting near me did not know what it was. The poll worker said "that's JB's thing". If you skip the vote, it's counted as a No So this was my first election voting in DuPage county, quick question: Do we normally have these "cops are giant babies please vote to coddle them" amendments?
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I think they can only have 3 local resolutions on the ballot at a time. So you tend to get non-binding useless questions to keep something meaningful from finding its way onto the ballot.
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Oct 24, 2020 23:36
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I feel like a lot of this could've been avoided if they had just slashed "A tax on or measured by income shall be at a non-graduated rate" from the section, such that a small child could understand exactly what changes were and were not being made. As it is, I don't see the amendment passing.
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Oct 25, 2020 12:28
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HootTheOwl posted:So this was my first election voting in DuPage county, quick question: Do we normally have these "cops are giant babies please vote to coddle them" amendments? During the 2018 general there were also 3 propositions which were also kind of useless. Useless in a different way, presumably the current ones got on because it's a hot topic or whatever. 2018 General Election posted:Shall DuPage County oppose the General Assembly instituting a property tax increase equivalent to 1% of your home’s value to help retire state debt? The sample ballots I found online only go back to 2018 (that was my first election in IL) so I can't say about earlier years. But I seem to remember a lot of discussion about taxes that year.
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Oct 26, 2020 21:57
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How come I feel like the Fair Tax Amendment is just like Brexit. If it fails, the general assembly is probably going to pass a tax hike for the entire state. Then you'll have a whole bunch of people going, "what, they can raise my taxes? But I voted No!". It's going to be a bunch of people voting against it, and not knowing a loving thing on what they're voting against. God I wish somebody would poll the state on this thing.
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Oct 28, 2020 21:56
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Well, IHSA is going against the IDPH by allowing winter sports (including basketball). Also, I agree that the Fair Tax will probably not pass a d that will lead to a tax on everyone.
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Oct 28, 2020 22:35
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It is very weird no one has released a poll of any kind on it considering how well-funded both sides are.
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Oct 28, 2020 22:39
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You could spend money on that or you could spend money on your buddies in the advertising industry.
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Oct 28, 2020 22:48
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:You could spend money on that or you could spend money on your buddies in the advertising industry. I know we all like to be cynical here but there are plenty of greedy assholes who still pay for polls
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Oct 28, 2020 22:55
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Badger of Basra posted:It is very weird no one has released a poll of any kind on it considering how well-funded both sides are. I am absolutely certain that both sides are polling the poo poo out of it and just not releasing the results which probably means it's on a razor's edge whether it's going to pass or not.
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Oct 28, 2020 22:57
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I would assume someone has done internal polling, but just aren’t sharing. My guess is that’s it’s very close. If it was lopsided, we might have seen some ads taper off. This is just a gut feeling though.
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Oct 28, 2020 22:58
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Bird in a Blender posted:How come I feel like the Fair Tax Amendment is just like Brexit. If it fails, the general assembly is probably going to pass a tax hike for the entire state. Then you'll have a whole bunch of people going, "what, they can raise my taxes? But I voted No!". I, for one, am already planning to openly laugh at these people and dish out a lot of "told you so"s. The propaganda job the anti-side did here was truly amazing in how thoroughly it's convinced a number of people to directly vote against their interest. Nothing funnier than driving past a gargantuan house in Oak Brook recently and seeing their big sign out front saying "VOTE NO, because we can't afford another tax hike."
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Oct 28, 2020 23:02
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I also think it won't pass but anecdotally I will say ive had casual conversations with several very low information voters at work and they all said they voted yes so who knows.
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Oct 28, 2020 23:16
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Source4Leko posted:I also think it won't pass but anecdotally I will say ive had casual conversations with several very low information voters at work and they all said they voted yes so who knows. Some aspiring republicans in my family voted against. I think people are just confused.
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Oct 29, 2020 00:04
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HootTheOwl posted:Some aspiring republicans in my family voted against. I think people are just confused. Almost as if, in aggregate, we're mindless drones regurgitating whatever message the ruling class broadcasts into our eyeballs.
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Oct 29, 2020 00:09
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I've been phone banking for the Fair Tax and they had us switch to GOTV on Saturday, which feels like a good sign - the Bernie campaign didn't switch to GOTV until the last weekend. I really hope the General Assembly has the balls to immediately start taxing retirement income during the veto session if the amendment fails. Bird in a Blender posted:How come I feel like the Fair Tax Amendment is just like Brexit. If it fails, the general assembly is probably going to pass a tax hike for the entire state. Then you'll have a whole bunch of people going, "what, they can raise my taxes? But I voted No!". It's going to be a bunch of people voting against it, and not knowing a loving thing on what they're voting against.
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Oct 29, 2020 02:18
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The local Facebook groups are hopping with lists of restaurants staying open in suburban Cook and DuPage Counties.
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Oct 30, 2020 01:18
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A restaurant owner in Wheaton that agreed to close is getting harassed by owners in town that didn't close. Nothing serious, just a lot of "why would you do this?!" type stuff. It's a free country as long as you do what the chuds want you to do. 
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Oct 30, 2020 01:32
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I was wondering why I've been seeing a lot of adds to retain Judge Kilbride on youtube in the last week, and turns out a poo poo ton of money is getting spent on that retention vote. https://www.chicagotribune.com/poli...zue4-story.html Seems like they are trying to get the court to stalemate just to try and keep it even until '22. quote:Kilbride needs the approval of 60% voters to win retention to a third 10-year term. No opponent runs in a retention contest. I guess the algorithm has my number as I've only seen pro retain adds and only 1 anti fair tax add. Bugsy fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Oct 30, 2020 |
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Oct 30, 2020 02:27
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Bugsy posted:I was wondering why I've been seeing a lot of adds to retain Judge Kilbride on youtube in the last week, and turns out a poo poo ton of money is getting spent on that retention vote. Well, poo poo, now I'm wondering if voting "No" on him was bad  Earlier this month, the attack on him was something about him ruling against some anti-gerrymandering case. Ended up going with (what I thought was) the tried-and-true Goonsensus of "Vote no on all the judges, and let God sort 'em out" 
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Oct 30, 2020 03:39
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xzzy posted:A restaurant owner in Wheaton that agreed to close is getting harassed by owners in town that didn't close. Nothing serious, just a lot of "why would you do this?!" type stuff. Gimme them names so I can spend my money wisely, please?
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Oct 30, 2020 04:52
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Deathlove posted:Gimme them names so I can spend my money wisely, please? That Altiro place, which we've never eaten at but I guess we should now. Adelle's is sad too because they spent a heap of money installing a new vent and filter system but are going to close as well. I don't know of them getting harassed though.
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Oct 30, 2020 13:43
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Bugsy posted:I was wondering why I've been seeing a lot of adds to retain Judge Kilbride on youtube in the last week, and turns out a poo poo ton of money is getting spent on that retention vote. Thank you for this. I was wondering about the attack ads as well. I had never seen them for a judge prior to this year. I assumed it was something sinister and well, Republicans, so, guess I was right.
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xzzy posted:That Altiro place, which we've never eaten at but I guess we should now. Is Adelle's closing for good?? Or just closing dining-in? And yeah, good on Altiro, haven't been there yet, either. gently caress I guess *checks map of Wheaton restaurants* just about every other restaurant in this town, though? Do you have a source? (just so I can discuss with my partner)
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Deathlove posted:Is Adelle's closing for good?? Or just closing dining-in? Yeah, my wife.  She's on some Wheaton facebook group and I don't use it so am no help but that's where she got it. If I remember I'll ask her when she gets home tonight.
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Oct 30, 2020 16:12
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I just finished a project at Wheaton College, and now I have a new project starting at Cantigny Park. I really need to get my company to stop sending me to Wheaton.
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Oct 30, 2020 16:15
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hey! read a worse post down there vvv
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Oct 30, 2020 16:20
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xzzy posted:Yeah, my wife. fair! looks like Adelle's is still open, so that's nice. Bird in a Blender posted:I just finished a project at Wheaton College, and now I have a new project starting at Cantigny Park. I really need to get my company to stop sending me to Wheaton. To its credit, I thought I'd see way less Casten/Biden stuff than I have this season, but if anything says "centrist liberalism", it's Wheaton.
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Oct 30, 2020 16:21
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Going to quote this post from USPOL because it's about Illinois cops being bad.A Typical Goon posted:https://twitter.com/eaton/status/1322015709967298560?s=21
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Oct 30, 2020 17:20
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These guys have to have the tiniest dicks to think of weapons when the rest of the country is trying to deal with a deadly pandemic and mass unemployment.
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The X-man cometh posted:These guys have to have the tiniest dicks to think of weapons when the rest of the country is trying to deal with a deadly pandemic and mass unemployment. Its the Illinois state police of course they do. When all you are is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
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Oct 30, 2020 20:01
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Went past the big chud diner in my town this evening and it was utterly packed inside, with cars blocking the main road waiting to get in. Guess they want to make the most of their freedom to get sick while they can.
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Oct 31, 2020 00:15
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Yeah, the chuds on my Facebook feed are already filling it up with “ummmm, where is the proof that bars and restaurants are what is causing spread....just asking questions.” Edit: it would not surprise me if the majority of businesses in our region do not change their behavior one drat bit and there is no repercussions for that at all.
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Oct 31, 2020 04:01
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There's still going to be more than enough demand loss that they'll struggle to survive
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Oct 31, 2020 07:38
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brugroffil posted:There's still going to be more than enough demand loss that they'll struggle to survive Plus they and their employees will be guaranteed to get sick and make it harder to operate at all. So great job, restauranteurs! Way to think ahead.
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Oct 31, 2020 17:50
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Bird in a Blender posted:I just finished a project at Wheaton College, and now I have a new project starting at Cantigny Park. I really need to get my company to stop sending me to Wheaton. I had my wedding photos there and my groomsmen bough lil baby pumpkins and one of them beamed she cousin in the face with one.
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Nov 1, 2020 00:01
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It feels like half of the people from my high school are posting pictures from Halloween parties on Facebook. Get ready for cases in the Northwest Side and inner suburbs to skyrocket.
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My wife made a "socially distanced Halloween" Facebook group for our town so we drove around and hit the houses that had tables out front. The amount of kids wandering around in groups was pretty staggering though so we weren't out for long. Not a lot of mask wearing either. Oh yeah and the local school district had like 8 positive cases just this week but I'm sure that's fine. Can't wait for my kids to go back to school on Wednesday.
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Sawa group of kids together trick or treating about ten kids and their parents. No masks. They were hitting up the townhomes/apartment I lived in. Satan superspreading eve
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