Reform? It's past time, fellow voters

Yesterday's Daily Herald 'Opinion' asks if "... we have the will to make a change?" in reference to the efforts by some to curb political corruption in Illinois. I believe that the overriding obstruction in achieving meaningful reform is that this state is currently lead by people who have lost the ability to recognize right from wrong.

We've heard "I haven't done anything wrong." from Rod Blagojevich several times leading up to his impeachment, from Roland Burris regarding his hiding of his fundraising connection to the former governor, and from State Sen. Terry Link regarding his refusal to investigate the signatures of dead people on his re-election petitions. It seems that many multiple term elected officials tend to see and feel comfortable operating in gray areas that the rest of us view clearly as corrupt or unethical. Do we really want these people writing bills to help weaken the system that they've learned to work so well in order to stay in office? Illinois citizens are, and should be, clamoring for change; but recent elections indicate that voters are either staying home on election days or somehow becoming weak in the voting booth, leaving us with many of the same machine politicians who have been part of the problem all along.

We need informed voters to take action and term limits for all elected offices.

Keith Gray

Mettawa