Message from Jeanne Ives, includes “The month of May is when Madigan and company like to pass $38 billion dollar plus budgets in two hours. Taxpayers need to be on guard.  … In the Wall Street Journal of September 18, 2018, guest columnist Don Willet remarked, ‘Citizenship is not a spectator sport.’  Thomas Jefferson wrote from Paris in 1789, ‘Wherever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government.’ …”