Byline: BOB TITA
The state's largest business groups are out to convince voters that the devils they know-corruption and paralysis in Springfield-are preferable to the Pandora's box of taxes and regulations that a rewrite of the state constitution could bring.
The business leaders are working with some unlikely partners-unions and trial lawyers among them-to raise money for a $3-million-to-$5-million campaign to cast a constitutional convention as a bad idea.
On the Nov. 4 ballot, Illinois voters will be asked whether a constitutional convention should be convened. The constitution requires the question be posed every 20 years. Voters turned it down by a wide ...