74 Voting For Judges, Chicago Appleseed’s Elizabeth Monkus; College Dems of IL Pres Billy Stripeik

Summary: LISTEN, SUBSCRIBE, AND RATE Every week, Indivisible Chicago Podcast host Tom Moss talks to politicians, newsmakers, academics and activists about resisting the Trump agenda. The ICP is also a great way to keep up with what’s happening in Indivisible Chicago. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or listen online at IndivisibleChicago.com/podcast. Take a minute to rate us on iTunes. It helps us get the word out about the ICP. https://apple.co/2oR4UlH INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES AND ACTIONS FOR MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2018 Opening: With the media under attack, fake news running rampant, and the risk of newspapers becoming irrelevant, what is the value of newspaper endorsements today? The CJR article Tom refers to is here: http://bit.ly/2CI1pXM Segment 1: If there’s one thing the Kavanaugh spectacle taught us, it’s that there are good judges and there are not-so-good judges. In Illinois, voters are charged with keeping a check on judges, but how know which are the rotten apples? On this week’s episode, Elizabeth Monkus from the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice helps sort things out. Elizabeth mentioned six judges that received at least one “unqualified” rating at voteforjudges.org: Maura S. Boyle Matthew Coghlan Kathy Flanagan Lionel Jean-Baptiste Andrea Schleifer James Varga Research at Vote for Judges -- www.voteforjudges.org. The full report of judicial endorsements — including helpful narrative rationales — is from the Chicago Council of Lawyers. http://bit.ly/2CdimIC Segment 2: Billy Stripeik, President of the Chicago Democrats of Illinois comes on to talk about getting out the vote on campus.