Bill Text: IL SR0539 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Congratulates William McNary on his retirement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-11-09 - Resolution Adopted [SR0539 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SR0539-Introduced.html

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SENATE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate wish to
congratulate William McNary on the occasion of his retirement;
and
WHEREAS, William McNary has most recently served as the
co-director for Citizen Action Illinois, the State's largest
public interest organization with an ambitious agenda that
includes the fight for workers' rights, advancing public
education funding, utility rate and insurance rate reform,
environmental safety, and protecting consumers from unfair
predatory loan practices; he previously served as the
legislative director for Citizen Action Illinois; and
WHEREAS, William McNary has also been serving as the
legislative chair of the Responsible Budget Coalition, a
coalition dedicated to making the Illinois tax structure
fairer in order to provide the revenues needed to create jobs,
educate our children, and provide for health care, human
services, and public safety; and
WHEREAS, William McNary was one of the founding members of
Health Care for America Now!, the largest national grassroots
health care coalition, which campaigned for the successful
passage of the Affordable Care Act that was signed into law by

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President Obama; and
WHEREAS, William McNary has been appointed by two Illinois
governors, the Illinois Attorney General, the Cook County
Board President, and other State constitutional officers to
serve on several state boards, task forces, and transition
teams; and
WHEREAS, William McNary served as the founding president
of USAction, one of the nation's largest coalitions of
progressive grassroots organizations; he served as a surrogate
speaker for President Barack Obama in his first run for
president, was elected as an Obama delegate, and served as
Illinois convention floor whip at the Democratic National
Convention in Denver in 2008; and
WHEREAS, William McNary served as the senior policy
advisor for Public Campaign, an organization that promoted
public financing of elections to fix a broken campaign finance
system; he was appointed by former Governor Pat Quinn to serve
on the Illinois Task Force for Campaign Finance Reform; and
WHEREAS, William McNary currently serves on the board of
the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, an organization
that promotes tax fairness; he also serves on the board of the
Environmental Law and Policy Center, which promotes

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environmental progress through economic development and jobs;
and
WHEREAS, William McNary worked with the Rainbow/Push
Coalition since 1996, where he directed voter registration and
get out the vote efforts in the Black community; therefore, be
it
RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we congratulate
William McNary on his retirement and wish him the best in all
his future endeavours; and be it further