Dan Sugrue Joins Fair Map Amendment Partners

March 1st, 2010

Dan Sugrue Joins Fair Map Amendment Partners Lauds Opportunity for Citizens to Curb Corruption

Dan Sugrue, candidate for the 59th State Rep District, is urging citizens to join him in collecting signatures for the Fair Map Amendment. A link to petitions may be downloaded at Dan’s website, www.electdansugrue.com.

What is the Fair Map Amendment

The Fair Map Amendment is a solution allowing citizens to elect candidates instead of legislators selecting citizens. Today, Illinois is one of the only states in the nation allowing legislators to draw districts behind closed doors. Regardless of party affiliation, districts are drawn to protect incumbents and makes it nearly impossible to vote incumbents out of office.

The Fair Map Amendment provides a change to the state constitution before the mapping process begins next year. It requires each legislative leader to appoint two people to the commission. Individuals selected may not include lobbyists, state employees, politicians or family members.

The group of eight appointed individuals must agree on a ninth member, and follow strict criteria including elimination of partisan advantage – public input and transparency are included as well.

Who is supporting the Fair Map Amendment?

Fair Map Partners include the League of Women Voters, Better Government Association, former members of the Illinois Reform Commission – Patrick Collins, Brad McMillan, Sheila Simon, David Hoffman & Duane Noland, Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, Common Cause – Illinois, Illinois Chamber of Commerce, Americans for Prosperity, Illinois Alliance for Growth, Illinois Farm Bureau, Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization and United Power for Action and Justice.

How can you help?

Download details on the Fair Map Amendment from Dan’s website and circulate the petition in your neighborhood. Host a neighborhood gathering or suggest the Fair Map Presentation for fellow members of Civic, Community or Religious Organizations. Dan offers to deliver a presentation and provide petitions with appropriate signature requirements. Go door to door and circulate the signatures on your own – visit the Fair Map Amendment web site for the petition and circulation instructions.

Join Sugrue along with other Fair Map Partners to ensure future legislative maps represent people not politicians.

Dan’s plan for Springfield includes sponsoring legislation to encourage job creation, revise government pension programs, cut spending and increase transparency in government.

The 59th State Representative district includes the communities of Wheeling, Buffalo Grove, Vernon Hills, North Chicago, Waukegan, Northbrook, Lincolnshire, Bannockburn, Riverwoods, Lake Forest, Knollwood, Mettawa, Green Oaks, Gurnee and Park City.

If you would like to join Team Sugrue contact Dan at (847) 769-2844 or e-mail dan@electdansugrue.com.

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You make a difference when you vote

February 1st, 2010

Dan SugrueI’ve been endorsed by both the Chicago Tribune and the Daily Herald. I’ve also been endorsed by every Republican township organization in the district.

My opponent, Cindy Hebda, has been tossed off the ballot by a Circuit Court and an Appellate Court, but the Illinois Supreme Court has allowed her to stay on the ballot for now until they decide whether to hear her appeal.

The primary election is Tuesday, February 2. Polls will be open 6am to 7pm. You make a difference when you vote. Here are a few useful links:

Illinois State Board of Elections

Lake County Voter Information

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The homestretch

February 1st, 2010

January 26, 2010

It’s been a great week for our campaign!

I’ve been endorsed by both the Chicago Tribune and the Daily Herald. Everywhere I go, people are eager for reform, for ethics reform, pension reform, and redistricting reform. They are tired of the reckless spending of our money in Springfield, and want to bring jobs and fiscal sanity back to Illinois.

One more week until Primary Election Day! Let’s keep up the hard work; knocking on doors, calling our friends, and putting up yard signs. Victory is in sight! Let’s finish this week strong, and meet Tuesday night at 7:00 pm at The Forge Club, 634 S. Milwaukee Avenue,  in Vernon Hills to watch the returns together.

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Dan Sugrue Announces Candidacy for State Representative, 59th District

September 11th, 2009

Libertyville, Illinois, August 15, 2009 — Republican Dan Sugrue announced today that he will run for state representative in the 59th District in 2010 against incumbent Kathy Ryg.

Declaring that “eight years of one party rule is enough,” Sugrue stressed that voters in his mostly Lake County district need a legislator in Springfield that represents their interests rather than “the Chicago machine.”  He criticized Kathy Ryg for voting in favor of a 50 percent increase in the state income tax just last May, a few months after voting to raise her own pay, “At a time when people are hurting, they don’t need  the State of Illinois taking more money out of their pockets because it can’t control its own spending.”  Sugrue said that he would work to bring jobs back to Illinois by giving incentives for businesses to come to Illinois.

Last year, in his first run for public office, Sugrue challenged Ryg and despite the fact that he entered the race only 7 months before the election against a career politician in a Democratic year, Sugrue did better than any other Republican challenger in the area. Sugrue is an attorney in Green Oaks, is married and has three children.

“For everyone in the 59th district, who’s tired of the corruption in Springfield, tired of the tax and spend policies of Chicago Machine Democrats, and tired of seeing jobs leaving the State of Illinois, come join my campaign” said Sugrue. “We can change the direction of government in Springfield, but only if we send new people down there who aren’t tied to the failed policies of the past.”

The 59th District includes all or parts of Waukegan, Park City, Gurnee, Green Oaks, Mettawa, Lake Bluff, North Chicago, Lake Forest, Lincolnshire, Riverwoods, Buffalo Grove, Vernon Hills and Wheeling. Here’s a map

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What Illinois needs

June 22nd, 2009

Since last year’s election and former Governor Rod Blagojevich’s arrest and indictment, Illinois Democrats have promised us that they would start getting serious about ethics reform in state government. Yet, with the end of the spring legislative session now in sight, nothing has been done to clean up state politics. Sadly, we may have been asking too much to expect the same people who supported and endorsed Rod Blagojevich to now reform the same corrupt system that they participated in for over six years.

With Illinois in the middle of a recession and facing a 12 billion dollar budget deficit, the only solution that Illinois Democrats want to offer is to raise our income taxes while they raise their own salaries.

If we really want to get serious about reforming Illinois politics and bringing jobs back to Illinois, we need to get rid of Blagojevich Democrats like Kathy Ryg, and replace them with legislators who believe in smaller, honest government and pro-growth policies that will bring businesses and jobs back to Illinois.

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