Local Legislator Joins Colleagues in Launching New Website for Reform
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS – Giving local residents another tool to become activists for reform in state government, State Rep. Sidney Mathias (R-Buffalo Grove) is urging taxpayers to visit the newly created www.reinventillinois.com website to submit ideas on how lawmakers should cut the state budget and suggest reforms needed to re-focus state priorities on fiscal discipline and economic growth.
The site is the latest effort by Rep. Mathias to incorporate public opinion and cultivate a broad range of feedback to help address the growing state budget crisis and fuel the need for budget and ethics reform.
“With unemployment at a 25-year high and Illinois facing a historic deficit, we need to reach out and embrace the public’s demand for reform in our budget process and ethics in state government,” Rep. Mathias said. “It is time that government starts listening to the public and Reinventillinois.com will be a vital tool to help foster that dialogue.”
“Families are cutting back to make ends meet in today’s economy and state government should do the same,” Mathias added. “Government must begin to live within its means and encourage those we represent to help us reform our broken budget process and bring real change to Springfield. This new website will help us accomplish that goal together.”
To join the discussion on how to reform state government, please visit www.reinventillinois.com and register for a free login to begin submitting your ideas.
Rep. Mathias serves the 53rd District which includes portions of Buffalo Grove, Arlington Heights, Wheeling, Prospect Heights, and Mount Prospect.
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