RETIRED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO Since 1926 VOL. LXIV OCTOBER 2008 NO. 4 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF RTAC I’m sure you are looking forward to enjoying Our current Constitution protects us from hav- the last warm days of autumn before the rigors of ing our pension lowered. AND it will be lowered if winter set in. However, there is a very CON-CON is approved. dark cloud on the horizon of every re- tired public school teacher in Chicago WE MUST WORK TO DEFEAT THE and Illinois—along with all other public CON-CON QUESTION IN NOVEMBER! employees receiving a pension in this Starting NOW, RTAC is actively working state. to defeat CON-CON and making sure NO MISCHIEF takes place in Springfield to That danger-filled cloud is nick- remove the constitutional protection we named “Con-Con.” This dark cloud’s have against taxing our pensions! real name is the Constitutional Conven- Ethel Philpott tion Question that WILL BE ON YOUR BALLOT in Beginning today, start talking to your neigh- November 2008! bors, relatives, friends, former colleagues and any- one else you can think of to tell them of this situa- Back in 1970, Illinois replaced its 100-year-old tion. Remind them to JUST SAY NO to CON-CON Constitution with a new document. In that new 1970 in November. version, a clause was inserted that mandated ask- ing Illinois citizens the question of having the Con- PROTECT YOUR PENSION! stitution revisited every 20 years. In 1990, Illinois VOTE NO ON CON-CON! citizens said: NO! Now, 20 years later, we have this question again and RTAC says, VOTE NO! Remember, as Lobbyist Dick Lockhart has In Illinois, ALL public pensions—including said: “No Man”s Life, Liberty or Pension is safe ours—are State Income Tax Free! Efforts are be- while the Legislature is in session!” ing made to change this valued benefit! RTAC wants to keep it the way it is! Got Questions? Write to RTAC – NO CON- CON/RTAC, 20 East Jackson Blvd.,Suite 1500, After years of working hard under the difficult Chicago,IL60604 oremail at:
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