Paul Green Trashes Con-Con

Now a Roosevelt University Professor of Policy Studies, Dr. Paul Green is well known to governmental officials.

Many have heard him speak at conventions.

Having served as a township supervisor, he brings an understanding of the political arena that few academics have.

Thursday night, Green spoke to the McHenry County Economic Development Corporation’s annual dinner. One of his former students is now the EDC President Chris Manheim

You can read what the Northwest Herald reporter Lix Wolgemuth wrote, but missing from that coverage was an almost diatribe brought on by a woman asking his opinion of holding another constitutional convention.

He said it would be “held over my dead body,” that it would be “a disaster.”

He waxed eloquently about the quality of the delegates to the 1970 constitutional convention, the first held in 100 years.

We “never had brighter people discussing anything,” he said.

“It was legitimate.”

I wonder what political entities are illegitimate.

Referring to a new constitutional convention, he observed,

It would be a lobbyist’s dream.

It would be a taxpayer’s nightmare.

The quality of people would not be the same.

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Locally, 1970 con-con delegates were Jeff Ladd of Crystal Lake, Jeanette Mullin of Barrington, Stan Johnson of DeKalb and Maxine Wymore, from northern McHenry County, I believe.

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