We’re # 1, we’re # 1!!! Unsurprising.
Thank goodness Cook County townships are defunct in the city or I’d have another wonderful layer of local government.
Lots of small towns is Kansas eh?
Yep, big government and layers of bureaucracy is just plain awesome and works great for our Republic, as long as its not done at the federal level. We definitely need townships in the city of Chicago so we can have more local government standing up for Illinois soverignity. I'm sure whichever fatcat was named Supervisor of Hyde Park Township would do a great job. And why stop at repealing the 17th? Politicians appointing other politicians is such a GREAT idea for having a body of wise statesmen, we should have the state Senate 100% appointed by politicians too, and let city alderman and village trustees appoint whoever they want to serve for life. Then we'd never have maverick people like Chris Lauzen elected to the Illinois Senate by those rascally voters. Why stop at 50 alderman? Chicago should have at least 100 of 'em, so those fine upstanding patriots can stand up to the feds and fight for states rights. And hey, we need to get those alderman appointed by other politicians as well (maybe we can create a new "Alderman vetting board" of paid advisers to Rahm to make recommendations for him) -- you just can't trust the voters, they might actually vote a criminal out of office now and then...
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