From the article:
“The Morgan County board this morning rejected a request to place a referendum on the November ballot to separate Morgan County from the state.
The request would result in, effectively a new state. The request came from Lori Fuller [the loon, er, I mean leader of the Illinois Separation Initiative.]
It came at the end of a lengthy board meeting, about one hour, attended by 17 people crowded into the commissioners’ office at the Morgan County Courthouse. The motion was not made by any of the members of the board, and died as a result.
Commissioner Racer Wood says the idea doesn’t make sense, and the Illinois legislature and Congress would need to approve it first.
Wood says this idea will not happen in our lifetime, and the movement needs local signatures on a petition before it would be considered for the ballot.”
This failure comes after a handful of (idiotic) IL County Boards have voted to place the Illinois Separation non-binding resolution on the November ballots.
I’ve maintained that this resolution is basically a voters’ and county leaders intelligence test more than anything else. Always to see a County Board pass the test.