Post by Logan on May 14, 2016 5:38:39 GMT -6
Revised flyer after initial one was prohibited as political activity. Provided photo.
Flyers promoting a Downstate rally — while criticizing Gov. Bruce Rauner — were removed from state offices after a Rauner administration memo dubbed them “prohibited political activity.”
“Take it to the Capitol. Rauner is wrong,” the flyer read, in announcing a rally next Wednesday at the Illinois State Capitol to fight for workers rights, social service agencies and schools, among other entities affected by the budget stalemate. The group Illinois Working Together — a coalition “defending all working families from anti-worker attacks” — plans to join the state’s major unions and religious groups at the rally.
The Rauner administration memo was sent on May 6 to agency ethics officers regarding the flyer. It reminded them that while the state welcomes free speech of its employees, they must ensure that state facilities have “no appearance of impropriety or partiality.”
The memo says the state and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees had agreed that the union wouldn’t post political speech on its bulletin boards in state offices.
Read more: chicago.suntimes.com/news/flyers-promoting-rally-against-rauner-banned-state-offices/