Activist 'works tirelessly when he believes in a cause'
By Mike Monson
Sunday November 9, 2008
Robert K. O'Daniell
Champaign resident Randall Cotton checks the vote-counting activity Tuesday at the Brookens Administrative Center in Urbana. Cotton helped lead an unsuccessful bid for a property-tax increase in City of Champaign Township.
CHAMPAIGN – Randall Cotton has closely cropped hair, wears serious wire-rim glasses and dresses somewhat conservatively. He speaks precisely and succinctly, like the computer engineer he is.
Abbie Hoffman he's not.
But Cotton, a 43-year-old Champaign resident, is every bit the committed, decidedly left-wing citizen activist.
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