IVI-IPO Announces Candidate Endorsements
for the February 5, 2008 Primary Election
The only Presidential Primary Endorsement announced by Independent Voters of Illinois, Independent Precinct Organization, was in the Green Party Primary, for Cynthia McKinney.
For the 2008 Primary, they endorsed in the Democrat Primary, five Congressional candidates, six Senate candidates, seven state House candidates as well as thirty-one local and judicial races. For the Republican Primary, they made endorsements in one Congressional race, one state House race, and five local contests. But they declined to endorse in any Presidential Primary including in the one contested by an Illinois native son, except for the Green Party, where they gave the nod to Cynthia McKinney of Georgia,
Since 1944, the IVI–IPO has been dedicated to good government activism and an idealistic vision of open, honest government in Illinois through pragmatic means that confront cynicism and corruption with equal force. The organization's primary tools are voter's registration, voter information and candidate endorsement. IVI-IPO also lobbies on behalf of governmental reforms designed to open the system and better inform the public on the political process. The IVI–IPO is a not-for-profit, multi-partisan, independent political organization. Their endorsements reach hundreds of thousands of voters throughout the greater Chicagoland area. Their work on campaign finance and ethics reform in the past and in the present has gotten high marks from all quarters. Sixty-four years old, and they say, "our commitment to good government is as strong now as it has ever been." The IVI-IPO's mission "is to achieve social justice through good government by increasing voter participation and knowledge, by providing a framework for candidate evaluation, and by electing responsive government officials."
