Lisle Township Democratic Organization

Our next Membership Meeting is October 12th from 6:30–8:30 p.m. (sharp) at the Naperville Municipal Building in the LUNCHROOM. The entrance is the corridor next to the door to lower-deck parking.

We will be hosting a Countywide Office Forum for the Regional Superintendent of Schools for Dupage County Rebecca Gamboa, County Treasurer Yeena Yoo, Sheriff Pete Coolidge, and President of the Forest Preserve Daniel Hebreard. Please help us address your concerns and submit questions for us to ask our guests. Here are helpful links as to what these positions oversee:

Regional Superintendent: iarss.org/role-of-regional-superintendent

County Treasurer: linkedin.com/showcase/dupage-county-treasurer-s-office/about

Forest Preserve:

• Board Leadership: Presides over meetings of the Board of Commissioners, guiding discussions and coordinating policy decisions among commissioners representing the six distinct geographic county districts. [1]
• Executive Oversight: Works directly with the agency’s chief administrative officer—the Executive Director (such as Anamari Golf Dorgan)—to ensure board priorities, resolutions, and directives are properly administered. [1, 2]
• Fiscal and Policy Stewardship: Acts as a public representative and fiscal guardian for the district, balancing conservation, education, and recreation goals while managing taxpayer resources. [1]
• Appointments and Governance: Collaborates with or seeks consent from the Board of Commissioners to make official appointments (such as leadership or commission positions) and handle administrative governance matters. [1]

Please send your questions to johneccleston1@gmail.com; our committee (John Eccleston, Diane Hewitt, and me) will work to incorporate them into the program.

Agenda is at: go.ltdo.org/oct-agenda.

Early Voting in DuPage County has begun! “Temporary” Early Voting locations are now open:

• Addison Township Office
  401 N Addison Rd, Addison, IL 60101 — Main Hall
• Bartlett Community Center
  700 S Bartlett Rd, Bartlett, IL 60103 — Program Room 5
• Downers Grove Village Hall
  850 Curtiss St, Downers Grove, IL 60515 — Cheever Chambers (Back end)
• DuPage County Fairgrounds
  2015 Manchester Rd, Wheaton, IL 60187 — Building 5
• Naperville Municipal Center
  400 S Eagle St, Naperville, IL 60540 — Meeting Rooms A & B

Hours are:

• Weekdays: 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
• Saturdays: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Additional Permanent Early Voting locations open October 19th. Complete information is at vote.ltdo.org/early.

You can now view (and download and print, if you like) all Lisle Township sample ballots at vote.ltdo.org/samples. We also have a binder with all printed sample ballots at the office. You may find yours, mark them up, and leave them to be scanned and printed for you.

Last Monday night, August 10th,, the unified Democratic township organizations of Naperville (DuPage, Lisle, Naperville, and Wheatland Townships Democratic organizations) met to hear from and endorse candidates for the 2027 races for Naperville Mayor, City Council, Park District, and School Districts 203 and 204. Elected PCs were given a weighted vote – equal to the number of votes they received in the 2026 primary election – to cast for candidates of their choice. The following races were not contested for endorsements and, therefore, the candidates present were endorsed:

Naperville Mayor: Benny White
Naperville City Council: Laurie Donahue, Kristine Gericke, Supna Jain, Marc Willensky
Naperville Park District: Carole Jones, Amy Phillips, John Risvold

District 203 vote totals (3 open seats / endorsements):

• Joe Kozminski – 2774 (ENDORSED)
• Robert Lang – 1504 (ENDORSED)
• John Doyle – 1241 (ENDORSED)
• Maura Boland – 1170
• John LaLoggia – 175

District 204 – 4 year term vote totals (3 open seats / endorsements):

• Shelby Schultz – 1521 (ENDORSED)
• Mark Rising – 1361 (ENDORSED)
• Andrew Bernard – 1341 (ENDORSED)
• Stefanie Harrison – 1067

Additionally, Bertha Jackson has been endorsed for the 204 / 2 year term position.

We encourage all PCs, Democratic elected officials, volunteers, and voters in their districts to support the endorsed candidates. They will all be collecting petition signatures for the next few weeks and the election will be in April 2027.

The SAVE Act has no chance of passage, and my top concern is interference ranging from intimidating voters to seizing ballots under the pretext of fraud; if the latter happens, the chain of custody is broken, and these voters are out of luck. I’ve been looking for specific actions citizens can take to fight this.

Indivisible has initiated a Hands Off Our Vote program, and to quote from the signup page: “By signing up you’ll get notified of key voting deadlines in your state, get updates on any threats to your voting rights and learn how to counter them, and be ready to mobilize in defense of your vote. You’ll also play an important role in rapid response moments whenever and wherever they try to pull those dirty tricks.”

Significantly, people in states most at risk listed at the bottom of this page can sign up for a more vigorous effort, the Election Defense Corps, which includes “strategic updates via email and text, training opportunities, and critical calls to action during key election protection moments in your state.”

Again, please sign up at mobilize.us/indivisible/event/966594 to receive timely information about how you can help.

P.S. You can read here about Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin’s Protect Our Polls Act. (Many of the actions covered are already illegal, but …) Excerpt:

The bill comes after Trump said he would not rule out sending the National Guard or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel to polling places in November …

Slotkin’s legislation … would require approval from Congress before the president could deploy uniformed military or federal law enforcement.

It also would ensure lawmakers have 48 hours’ notice before any forces are deployed — in addition to requiring intel, legal justification and evidence that proves state or local government cannot handle a threat on its own.