When will Don Harmon realize what Trump is planning? Why will he not act? The Governor has figured it out and publicly addressed it. It is time to act decisively. Harmon sponsored a law to keep ICE and Trump’s private police force at least 1,000 feet from Illinois courthouses. That is a good start. Yet it pales to the constitutionally critical and overriding issue that I addressed in an earlier letter and that the Governor parroted. There must be protection at the ballot boxes. We do not want to see any federal troops, be it Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, National Guard or secret police anywhere near our polling places … ever. C’mon, Don. You will have the support of anyone who ever voted. Do not let us down. I suggest 1,500 feet. I suggest similar remedies enforceable by anyone, on an emergency basis, whose airspace is violated by Trump’s thugs.
Bruce Golden
Oak Park