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Libertarian-Leaning Think Tank Branches Out To Candidate Recruitment

The libertarian-leaning Illinois Policy Institute will be trying its hand at candidate recruitment this summer and fall, sending out at minimum tens of thousands of postcards to households the organization identifies as “high propensity voters” who also align with the think tank on issues of “economic freedom,” seeking out those who may be interested in running for office. Illinois Policy’s outreach drive a pilot for a possible more robust candidate training program in the future is being launched in tandem with a new paper from three staff researchers at the organization. The paper argues that because Illinois’ legislative and congressional district maps are drawn with a low degree of competitiveness, incumbents go uncontested because a House or Senate district is all but guaranteed to a Republican or Democrat, leading to lower voter turnout.

Southern Illinois University researchers: Downstate split from Chicago would spell economic disaster

LES O DELL The Southern For downstate Illinois residents who want to breakaway from Chicago the suburbs and form their own state, two Southern Illinois University Carbondale researchers have an emphatic caution: Don t do it. In a whitepaper released earlier this year by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, a think tank at the university, political scientists John Foster and John Jackson said analysis of Illinois state revenue and budgeting over recent years shows downstate Illinoisans would be worse off without Chicago than they are with their northeastern neighbors. “Our basic premise is that people really ought to understand where their tax money is raised and where it’s being spent,” Jackson, who serves as a visiting professor with the Institute, said. “I have been at SIU over five decades and there has always been a basic misunderstanding about this. You always hear that we in Southern Illinois don’t get our fair share and that somehow

Citing Uncompetitive Legislative Maps, Libertarian-Leaning Think Tank Branches Out To Candidate Recruitment

Citing Uncompetitive Legislative Maps, Libertarian-Leaning Think Tank Branches Out To Candidate Recruitment
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