Let's keep Chicago politics in Chicago

Chicago politics have effectively degraded Illinois and the national economic scenes. Let's see, the Obama Health Care bill (2,900 pages) and the Illinois state budget (2,300 pages) both had to be passed so that we could see what was in it. The only problem: no one seems to know what is in either of these massive works. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with Chicago politics.

This year, unlike many others, we have the opportunity to limit Chicago politics to Cook County where it belongs. The sooner we lose “The city in the suburbs" mentality (we are more than 40 miles from Chicago) the better off we will be politically and economically. Mayor Schock, please stop stumping for your friends and stick to the local issues.

Chicago is a sanctuary city, defying federal law, and yet has the audacity to demand racial profiling for all traffic stops within the state; another unfunded mandate with the threat of no MFT funds for noncompliant municipalities. It appears that laws apply only to the non-Chicago state of Illinois.

Durbin and his underling at the time do not represent their non-Chicago constituents in the U.S. Senate. The same holds true for Madigan and his compatriots. Chicago, you can have Durbin to represent you, but the rest of us want a senator who will represent our non-Chicago politics. And Springfield is due for an overhaul as well. This is the year to see a welcome shift of political power.

I want my elected representatives to know what is in a bill before voting on it, and the only way to do that is to limit Chicago politics. Here's for a clean slate in the most corrupt state in the Union. We should get back to who we really are the “Land of Lincoln"; and for clarity sake: Lincoln was a Republican.

Tricia L. Dieringer

Elgin