Preckwinkle to appear at Flamm fundraiser

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle will speak in Palatine next Tuesday, February 25th. Preckwinkle will appear at a fundraiser for Matt Flamm, candidate for Palatine Township Democratic Committeeman, between 4:30 and 7:00 at Emmett’s Brewing Company, 110 N. Brockway St., Palatine. Tickets begin at $50, or $25 for volunteers who commit to at least one phone bank or other campaign activity.

Preckwinkle was elected in 2010 and is running for reelection. Since taking office, she has closed a $487 million budget gap; put the County on track to pay its bills on time for the first time in thirty years; instituted the first performance management system; begun to reduce the County’s huge jail population; and brought efficiencies to the County’s public health system. She reduced the budget by $100 million and repealed the County’s sales tax increase. Preckwinkle appointed a blue-ribbon committee which recently presented a “Next Century Conservation Plan” for the Cook County Forest Preserves.

A longtime Palatine resident, Flamm has been active in many local campaigns including all of Melissa Bean’s campaigns for Congress. Flamm served as a local organizer in President Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns. Sue Walton, who has been Palatine Township Democratic Committeeman since 2002, has endorsed Flamm as her successor.

For more information, call (847)920-8683 or go to www.mattflamm.org/donate.