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Rep. Dena M. Carli (D)

1st Representative District

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illinoisstaterep1@gmail.com

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Sen. William "Willie" Delgado (D)

Chicago 

2nd State Senate District

2009 District Spending Report

2009 Total Expended: $82,562.91

2009 Available Balance: $500.09

2010 District Spending Report

2010 Total Expended: $79,126.79

2010 Available Balance: $3,936.21

Provided by the Illinois Senate Operations Accounting System
 

2010 Base Salary: $64,717.08
2010 “Bonus” Pay: $9,852.12
2010 Total Salary Paid: $74,569.20
Provided by the Illinois Office of the Comptroller

2008 Salary: $75,073.96

2009 Salary: $76,366.08
2006 Mileage Funds Received: $3,389.12 

2007 Mileage Funds Received: $5,631.36

2008 Mileage Funds Received: $4,515.84
2009 Mileage Funds Received: $5,467.84
2010 Mileage Funds Received: $3,404.80
2006 Per Diem/Lodging Funds Received: $5,910.00 

2007 Per Diem/Lodging Funds Received: $9,403.00

2008 Per Diem/Lodging Funds Received: $6,192.00
2009 Per Diem/Lodging Funds Received: $8,712.00
2010 Per Diem/Lodging Funds Received: $6,380.00
Provided by the Illinois Office of the Comptroller
  

2007 – 2010 Senator Selected: Scholarship Recipients

Provided by the Illinois State Board of Education

2010 LPU Abuse: 10,500 [Campaign] Fliers
Taxpayer Production Cost: $670.80 for Labor, Materials and Paper
Taxpayer Postage/Mailing Cost: TBD

National Taxpayers United of Illinois (NTUI) Tax Survey Score [95th G.A.]: 8% ( / 100%)
Taxpayers United of America (TUA) Tax Survey Score [96th G.A.]: 9% ( / 100%)
For the Good of Illinois Record Scorecard [96th and 97th G.A.'s]: 9% ( / 100%)

Residential:

Qualifying District Address:

4325 West Shakespeare Avenue; Chicago, Illinois 60639

Property Index Number (PIN): 13-34-218-014-0000

Board of Review: Certified 2009

Assessor Estimated 2010 Market Value: $271,460.00

2009 Property Taxes [Paid in 2010]: $4,233.01

Public Office:

4150 W. Armitage; Chicago, Illinois 60639
2010/2011 District Office Lease: $1,450.00/month = $17,400.00/Year Taxpayer Cost

• Paperwork Error:  Owner of district office [building], Andres Valladares, did not sign the district lease with the Illinois General Assembly...
• Quid Pro Quo Alert:  This district address once headquartered the campaign ofCitizens for del Valle, who donated $17,470.44 to Delgado, including "in-kind" contributions, in 2002...

Commentary: Did the Illinois Dream Act (SB 2185 - 97th G.A.) create sanctuary for those volunteers that will run the Illinois DREAM Act commission fund from being prosecuted under federal law...?

Article: Last year, 23 states proposed tax plans similar to the one presented by state Sen. William Delgado, D-Chicago, but opponents flushed them down the drain...

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Lawyer takes on Illinois for denying people the right to ccw

If you have been denied your ccw and currently have ccw from other states then call this man.

J. D. Obenberger is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School (J.D., 1979), the United States Army Judge Advocate General's School (1979), and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (1986).
He was decorated for distinction as a criminal defense lawyer while a Captain of the US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps and was undefeated when he brought cases on behalf of the United States as a prosecutor. While a Captain in the Army JAG Corps, he lived in Germany for three years, and speaks fair conversational German. He has taught trial tactics to the attorneys of the United States Army Trial Defense Service. He taught Political Science for Central Texas College (1982). He often provides commentary in television and print media on issues affecting online communications and has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Wired, AVN Online, XBIZ, YNOT News, Klixxx and numerous other publications, and has been a guest on The O'Reilly Factor.

Everyone thinks cops are the only ones safe enough to have guns. NYPD shows us different

Ranked up there with Crook County Sheriff’s deputy who shot his C.P.D. wife then the ball less bastards shoots him self.  While the following story takes place in New York. Two NYPD cops shoot guns while drunk & off-duty, police sources say," a Wednesday New York Daily News headline declares. "Two drunken NYPD cops fired their guns in separate, off-duty incidents, one of which involved an officer emptying his handgun — firing 13 rounds — at a man inside a nearby car, hitting him six times..."
It's the kind of story that shocks many Americans conditioned to view "law enforcement" as the selfless protectors of society from "the bad guys." Except it's not shocking to those of us who keep an eye on such things...
That's something I've been doing for years, both on my The War on Guns blog, and over at Gun Rights Examiner, compiling stories under the heading of "The Only Ones Files." Examples of negligence, idiocy, corruption and outright evil abound. I don't even go looking for such stories, but still get more tips than I can use. And it's not just "a few bad apples" making the rest look bad. The rot is institutionalized, which becomes evident with countless examples of officers who have been allowed to get away with criminal behavior for years, and corresponding examples of colleagues who know about it but keep their mouths shut, and allow the victimization of citizens to continue.
So why do I call them the "Only Ones"? We have DEA agent Lee Paige to thank for helping birth the term.
"I'm the only one in this room professional enough that I know of to carry this Glock .40," he told a roomful of school kids in an anti-gun/drug lecture, before shooting himself in the foot in front of the horrified class while trying to holster his weapon.
The phrase was too perfect not to use, especially compounded with example after example of police officers receiving special exemptions from gun laws binding on "ordinary citizens" under the assumption that cops are somehow more trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent than the rest of us. That is demonstrably not true. But because of their employment, we see officers getting nationwide concealed carry, exemptions for possession and use of firearms forbidden to the masses, enjoying the ability to "lawfully" go armed into so-called "gun free zones" where the rest of us are forbidden, and the like.
Perhaps we should first see if police are better trained and more proficient with a firearm than, say, you.
"In reality, most police departments only train about two times a year, averaging less than 15 hours annually," a Tactics & Training article on Police One admits. And while qualification requirements vary, it's not uncommon to see them require as few as 50 shots fired, with passing grades of 70% and chances to retake the failed test, with remedial training at the discretion of the department, and with further provisions for extensions, waivers and requirement modifications.
What about armed police being safer for society than the average citizen?
"Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606)," Gun Owners of America reported, citing the work of criminologist Gary Kleck. "And readers of Newsweek learned that ‘only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The "error rate" for the police, however, was 11 percent, more than five times as high.’"
Adding to this, writer Dean Weingarten has compiled interesting evidence suggesting police are far more likely to commit homicide than concealed carry permit holders.
That seems to bear out anecdotally, whether considering "on duty" bad shoots, like the killing of unarmed BART passenger Oscar Grant and the 50-shot barrage by detectives killing unarmed prospective groom Sean Bell, or outright private murders. Just recently, without even trying to find such stories, The War on Guns documented four accounts of police officers murdering their wives, and in three of those cases turning the gun on themselves: A Cook County sheriff's department corrections officer, an Indianapolis police officer, a Mississippi deputy, and a former NYPD cop.
Speaking of police suicides, The Philadelphia Inquirer did a report some years back concluding "New York City officers kill themselves at a rate of 29 per 100,000 a year. The rate of suicide in the general population is 12 per 100,000 ... Nationally, twice as many cops - about 300 annually - commit suicide as are killed in the line of duty..."
But back to much-maligned armed citizens, subjects of a ridiculous "Concealed Carry Killers" propaganda campaign from the Violence Policy Center which to date has ignored a longstanding and repeated challenge to compare their "gun violence" rates and incidents with those of the police. And, at least in gun-hostile Chicago, since Illinois law was changed to provide for lawful concealed carry, the biggest danger gun owners face could be Superintendent Garry McCarthy's troops, especially after receiving a "shoot first" OK from the boss if they encounter anyone out of uniform with a gun. That off-duty and plain clothes officers and agents might be caught up in his eye-rolling hoplophobic frenzy seems not to have factored into the top cop's training considerations.
McCarthy's vision of a disarmed society, where the "Only Ones" are the sole keepers and bearers of arms, is shared by no shortage of Demanding Moms seen in MRCTV's "What Triggers a Protest of the NRA?"
"No," says one woman being interviewed when asked if you should have the right to defend yourself with a weapon if you're being attacked and somebody is putting your life in danger. "Only a law enforcement officer should be allowed to use weapons ... The only people who, in my opinion, should be allowed to carry weapons in public areas, are current law enforcement and off-duty law enforcement officers."
Isn't that where we came into this exercise?

150 inmates and 2 dead in Florida jail

Part of the Escambia County, Florida, jail collapsed after an apparent gas explosion, killing two inmates and injuring about 100 others.

The explosion happened late Wednesday night in the Pensacola jail's central booking area, county spokeswoman Kathleen Castro said. About 600 inmates were in the building at the time, she said.

About 100 to 150 inmates and jail workers were hurt, Castro said. Two inmates died.

A total of 155 patients were treated at five nearby hospitals, according to officials with those facilities. All of the patients suffered non-life-threatening injuries such as neck and back pain, and many were treated and released, the officials said.

The inmates who weren't injured were taken to other jails.

By early Thursday, authorities had completed two sweeps of the building. Search and rescue work was ongoing.

It appeared the roof and part of a wall collapsed, Castro said.

The building had been "heavily damaged" by flooding caused by more than a foot of rain that fell this week but was still inhabitable, she said.

It was too early to say if the explosion was related to the flooding, she said.

"I don't know, I can't speculate whether that had something to do with what we believe was an explosion this evening," she told CNN on Wednesday.

Relatives gathered at the scene to get details on their loved ones."We don't know if they're dead or alive. It's really frustrating," Eva Stewart told CNN affiliate WALA. "I can't sleep not knowing if my child's OK. I got other family members in there, too. I don't know if they're OK."

Anheuser Busch is being sued by top executive

ST. LOUIS, MO  – A former top executive at Anheuser Busch who is suing the brewery over pay discrimination found her testimony under attack by the beer giant`s lawyer Wednesday. Francine Katz said after six years as the chief spokesman for the firm and its vice president of communication and consumer affairs she was paid half the salary and bonus that her predecessor received. She also said her stock options were not as substantial as those received by John Jacob whose place she took.
Katz described their responsibilities as similar but not identical. She asked that she receive the title of Chief Communication Officer because she was carrying out that responsibility. But she testified she never received the title.

Katz`s attorney, Mary Anne Sedey objected several times when Jim Bennett representing Anheuser Busch tried to suggest Katz was lying. He repeatedly compared her recorded deposition to her testimony before the jury. Katz, who is also an attorney, told Bennett he was taking her words out of context. At one point he tried to catch her on a statement about when Jacob retired. Sedey complained he was using a court document that had been corrected and re-filed as an amended petition.

During Sedey`s questioning of her client she played multiple television stories in which Katz served as the national spokesman for Anheuser Busch on a range of controversial issues including underage drinking. Katz appeared on Sixty Minutes , NBC`s Today Show, CNN, FOX2 News and Dateline NBC. Katz testified she served as the company`s spokesperson from the early 19-90s until she left in 2008.

Sedey pointed out the spokesperson job was one Jacob never held. When she left the firm the news release issued by Anheuser Busch described her role as ‘chief communications officer,’ but it was not capitalized. Bennett jumped on that during cross examination pointing out the capitalized title was Vice President of Communications and Consumer Affairs. He also tried to show her pay was based on a comparison with top public relation executives at similar sized corporations.

Testimony showed after six years on the job she was paid $585,818 in salary and bonuses plus stock options. Her predecessor, John Jacob was paid 1.25 million dollars during his last full year on the job.

Katz will be back on the stand Thursday morning. Another female executive who served with Katz on the firm`s strategic planning committee will be called to testify.

Save the Lyons,Illinois Police Department - Rally to meet at 6 PM on May 7th, 2014 at Christie Ave & Lawndale Ave in Lyons, IL (Lyons Village Hall)