{"id":793,"date":"2010-02-05T14:59:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T20:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=793"},"modified":"2010-03-04T16:03:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T22:03:20","slug":"local-honors-former-president-marth-marie-fitzsimmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/05\/local-honors-former-president-marth-marie-fitzsimmons\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Honors Former President, Martha Marie Fitzsimmons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Brothers and Sisters:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As some of you may know, our sister, Martha Fitzsimmons left the office after her battle with lung cancer took a turn for the worse.\u00a0 The Executive Board, voted to honor Martha and her service to our clients and this union by making a donation in her honor to a cause she has felt strongly about for many years.\u00a0 What follows is a letter that we sent along\u00a0with a\u00a0donation to the Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<em>Martha is also our Member of the Month.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div>February 5, 2010<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Illinois Coalition To Abolish The <span id=\"lw_1265400890_2\">Death Penalty<\/span><\/div>\n<div>332 S. Michigan Ave<\/div>\n<div>St. 500<\/div>\n<div>Chicago, Il 60604<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Re: Martha M. Fitzsimmons<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Donation<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Enclosed is a check for $ 1,033.15, from the attorneys employed as <span id=\"lw_1265400890_3\">Cook County<\/span> <span id=\"lw_1265400890_4\" style=\"CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed\">Public Defenders<\/span> as members of AFSCME Union 3315, to honor our good friend and leader, Martha M. Fitzsimmons.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We are keeping Martha and her family in our close thoughts and prayers during her illness. And we reflect on the many years of service she dedicated to the cause of upholding the Constitutional protections for indigent citizens charged with crimes. She has worked tirelessly for nearly 25 years in Cook County courtrooms since joining the Office of the <span id=\"lw_1265400890_5\">Public Defender<\/span> in April, 1986.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But it was Martha\u2019s work outside of courtrooms to abolish the Death Penalty, and in support of our Union and organized labor, where she happily applied her strength, insight, determination and humor.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Martha could always be counted on to provide good advice and a shove in the right direction.\u00a0 Please accept the contribution from our members in her name. \u00a0And put the money to good use to continue the necessary work to abolish the death penalty in <span id=\"lw_1265400890_6\">Illinois<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Respectfully,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Public Defenders of Cook County<\/div>\n<div>The Executive Board<\/div>\n<div>AFSCME 3315<\/div>\n<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-825\" href=\"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/05\/local-honors-former-president-marth-marie-fitzsimmons\/icadp-martha-3\/\">Click here to see the letter from the ICADP.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brothers and Sisters: As some of you may know, our sister, Martha Fitzsimmons left the office after her battle with lung cancer took a turn for the worse.\u00a0 The Executive Board, voted to honor Martha and her service to our clients and this union by making a donation in her honor to a cause she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}