"James T. Meeks" is a former Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, who represented the 15th district from 2003 to 2013. He is also an active Baptist Minister (Christianity)/minister in Chicago and chaired the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus. He briefly campaigned for Mayor of Chicago in the Chicago mayoral election, 2011/2011 election before dropping out of the race. He has now become a leading figure in the campaign to prevent same-sex marriage in Illinois.

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And he went around the police and the police didn't like it and the police stopped him. End of story.

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We applaud him because his statement was swift, it was responsible, and it was contrite, ... We accepted the contrition and the spirit behind it and our board, in our session, unanimously accepted this statement as well as accepted Rev. Jackson's apology.

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As a consumer, I have the right to information that's available to me.

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Many of those cars will eventually be sold to another individual.

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[The sergeant] did not tell me two times ... He started with profanity and his weapon drawn from the moment I got out of the car.

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We have not paid and we are not paying monthly payments to Karin Stanford. The allegation is $10,000. We do not pay her any monthly compensation, ... Number two, we are not buying her, nor have we paid for a house for Karin Stanford, and third of all, the $35,000 she received was severance pay.

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Three days before the election, when George [W.] Bush's driving record was mysteriously leaked, George Bush simply said, 'Something is awfully suspicious,' ... And we think that it is something awfully suspicious about the timing of this 2-year-old story that it would find its way to the public attention three days before the march in Florida.

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Especially the two seniors, one with 3 credits away, one with four credits away, we were hoping they would be able to go back to school in January.

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We're just out in the country, and it takes longer to get to us, ... But then, it's also easy to forget about us out here.

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