SR0539 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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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 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 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

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to William McNary as a symbol of our respect and esteem.