Greens for MWRD

Nadine has started a blog. Check it out.

We Green Party candidates have many important policy points to bring to the public. We need funding to get our message out. We need to do advertising on radio, billboards, CTA buses and trains, front lawns, and wherever else we can.

You can donate online or you can mail us your checks. See the donation page.

Petitions for the three of us have been filed with the Cook County Clerk. We submitted 215 sheets. Eighteen different supporters collected one or more sheets of signatures for us. Thanks to all.

This means we had well over twice the required number of signatures. We were not challenged. This means we are on the February 2, 2010, primary ballot. Be sure to ask for the Green Party ballot when you go to vote. Note that the Green Party ballot is colored brown. 

Our three candidates will be

Nadine Bopp

Diana Horton

Jack Ailey

The Green Party is one of three ballot-qualified parties in Illinois.
In 2010, the Green Party will have the opportunity to run candidates
for every partisan race in the state, including U.S. Senator, Governor
and Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, State
Treasurer, and State Comptroller; all 19 U.S. House seats; 20 Illinois
Senate seats; all 118 Illinois House seats; and hundreds of
county-level office, including County Clerk, County Treasurer, and
County Sheriff in most counties, and about half of all County Board
seats across the state.

The Daily Herald has posted a story on all nine candidates for the MWRD. It is brief, but it gives fair coverage to the three of us. Here is the link http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=247006&src=1

Nadine has now been endorsed by both major Chicago newspapers! Congratulations! Here is the Tribune statement.

Congratulations to Nadine for her endorsement by the Chicago Sun-Times.

Here is the comment from the Sun-Times concerning Nadine. "Our third endorsement goes to Nadine Bopp of the Green Party. She is a long-time environmentalist who teaches at DePaul University, Columbia College and the School of the Art Institute. Bopp was an environmental planner for the Cook County Forest Preserve District for four years."

by Jack Ailey

Recent conversations with two of the Democratic Party candidates for the MWRD have confirmed that they don't agree that the MWRD needs to institute treatment for bacteria at the three sewage treatment plants which currently don't do this.