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On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, run-off elections will be held in Chicago wards: 1, 6, 12,15 and 21. The IVI-IPO has endorsed candidates for the run-off elections in wards 1, 6, 15 and 21. Our Candidate Questionaire page includes the responses from the candidates endorsed by IVI-IPO for those races. Here are all IVI–IPO's Endorsements for Chicago's 2003 Municipal Election. [Read our Press Release announcing the IVI–IPO endorsements. Click here to read more about our endorsed candidates.] To find out more about a candidate or to volunteer for a campaign, follow the links below to check the candidate information page. For elections where an endorsement was not made, click on the description following the office or ward number for an explanation of why no endorsement was made for the individual race.
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The IVI–IPO has been in existence since 1944. It has been dedicated to good government activism and an idealistic vision of open, honest government in Illinois through pragmatic means that confront cynicism and corruption with equal force. The organization's primary tools are voter's registration, voter information and candidate endorsement. We also lobby on behalf of governmental reforms designed to open the system and better inform the public on the political process.The IVI–IPO is a not-for-profit, non-partisan, independent political organization. Our endorsements reach hundreds of thousands of voters throughout the greater Chicagoland area. Our work on campaign finance and ethics reform in the past and in the present has gotten high marks from all quarters and our commitment to good government is as strong now as it has ever been.
The IVI–IPO Mission Statement We believe that those who are affected by the decisions of government must be consulted by those who govern. It is the right of citizens to have access to the instruments of power; it is their duty to learn to use them effectively and wisely. We seek to elect to public office men and women who will serve with wisdom and imagination, while remaining responsive to those who gave them office. We seek to build a citizenry confident in this capacity to select its leaders and to take part in the making of public policy.The IVI–IPO seeks to achieve this program for the community at large by means of broadly based citizen involvement in the political process. We will serve to make visible a political community which is at once energetic and humane. All who have a stake in our decisions will participate in making them; all who participate will share the responsibility for implementation. By fostering responsible citizen participation in public affairs, by promoting fresh, responsive and democratic political leadership, by demonstrating in our ways of work the wisdom of popular democracy, we seek to bring about a new political order in our community.
Toward these ends, the IVI–IPO will seek:
- To inform the people of Illinois about political issues.
- To educate ourselves and others on the problems of legislation, administration and political leadership.
- To organize for and to engage in political action.
- To nominate and to elect qualified candidates to public office.
- To mobilize the IVI–IPO in support of democratic objectives through constitutional means.
- To insure the honest and impartial conduct of elections and voter registration.
- To work to increase the measure of freedom, security and justice for all.