Kifowit the right choice to replace Mike Madigan
I was so excited to learn state Rep. Stephanie Kifowit decided to challenge Mike Madigan for the position of Speaker of the House in Springfield.
As an active Democrat in Illinois, my primary concern in Springfield is not maintaining a chokehold on power to strong-arm deals, but principle-driven leadership to effect positive change for all citizens.
Mr. Madigan no longer has the support of the majority of the House Representatives. More importantly, his moral authority is gone. The current ethics investigation is the final straw, and it impedes his ability to lead our state forward.
Although my district is not represented by Kifowit, she represents a neighboring district and, thus, I have had the privilege of seeing her work in action on several occasions. The first time I saw her speak was at a student-run summit to prevent gun violence in public schools.
Since, I have been struck by her dedication to students and the importance of their viewpoints, her unmatched patriotism, her advocacy for her constituents and veterans, her willingness to work across the aisle to enact needed change and, above all, her untarnished ethics which guide her actions and decisions. She is a proud Illinois citizen and a proud mother, whose own son is now serving our country.
I urge my fellow citizens to do your own research, then contact your state representative, whether Democrat or Republican, and ask them to support Rep. Stephanie Kifowit for Speaker of the House when they return to Springfield in January.
Elizabeth Carroll, Naperville
Madigan needs to leave before he destroys Illinois
As Carl Sagan once said, “If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.”
To Mike Madigan I say, it is time to give up your power and help the next generation with your wisdom, or you will surely destroy Illinois.
Ken Suchomel, Naperville
Columnists words read more like GOP ‘propaganda’
The Friday, Dec. 18, Opinion page is a snapshot of the danger we face as a nation: the fire hose of lies and disinformation and the war on truth.
Propaganda printed as opinion must be called to task. Columnist Cal Thomas ignores the scientists who worked tirelessly to deliver vaccines for COVID-19 (a ravage fueled by denials and lies). He instead praises the cult leader, no stranger to taking unearned credit. No doubt, the personality of the man is disordered, but to suggest Mike Pence, who famously nodded his way through 20,000-plus lies, is a leader without the baggage is ridiculous.
The column by Victor Davis Hanson, an appointee to the president’s 1776 Commission (the project to deny systemic racism), is an even more prolific propagandist, seeding his piece with the words “hard-left, socialist, radical, left-wing.” His screed reads like a Freudian projection case study about the current cult leader: cognitive decline, tax fraud, “ethical clouds.”
He lies about what he calls the “ill-conceived” Mueller report, ignoring multiple counts of obstruction of justice. The impeachment of a president for quid pro quo to steal an election who then pushes “stop the steal” propaganda is a new height of irony. To suggest Biden pray that the GOP doesn’t do to him what the Democrats rightfully performed as their duty, is a revenge fantasy, a threat and support for the losing candidate’s self-proclaimed victimhood.
We cannot unite until we regain a shared reality. Everyone has a right to an opinion. Let’s call these “opinions” what they really are: propaganda.
Karen V. Peck, Naperville
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