Trenches of Democracy

Yesterday State Representative Bassi and State Senator Murphy introduced legislation into their respective chambers, which would ease the process of secession of townships from Cook County.

Bassi called it a “Boston Tea Party response” against Cook County taxes. Both legislators recognize the bills probably won’t go anywhere, but they want to make point of protest. Bassi continued, “This is not a joke. … If the city of Chicago is not going to pay attention to the suburbs, by golly, we should be seriously looking at secession[.]”

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(”Proposal would ease suburbs’ break from Cook County” Daily Herald)

Tags: Bassi, Lincoln County, Murphy, Palatine, Palatine secession, Reagan County, secede

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