Today is the deadline for questions to be added to the 2021 Oak Park village ballot and one of our anti-defund trustees just slipped a resolution to add “Should Oak Park defund its police department” to the ballot.
If that question hits the ballot it will almost certainly fail _dramatically_, so the pro-defund trustees basically have to vote against it. It’s probably too late for them to introduce a competing resolution with friendlier wording, too.
I don’t like the trustee that did this but I have to concede this was well played: defund supporters are going to end up voting against a measure to put the question to the voters in plain language, thus effectively conceding the unpopularity of the slogan.
My real point here being: you probably have a local election coming up in 2021 where your vote will be much more meaningful than it was in November, and with potentially bigger policy impact, and you should pay attention to local politics.
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