Daily Southtown endorses Democrats in Illinois' 11th &13t.h

sueh

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Thu Oct-26-06 12:50 PM
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Daily Southtown endorses Democrats in Illinois' 11th &13t.h

Edited on Thu Oct-26-06 12:53 PM by sueh

congressional districts, John Pavich (11th) and Joe Shannon (13th). Woo-hoo! I'm in the 11th. I hope this helps send 2 more repugs Jerry ("when-will-you-come-out-of-the-closet?") Weller and Judy Biggert out of office. Go, Pavich, go Shannon!

http://www.dailysouthtown.com/news/opinion/editorials/1...

Damn it...I'm Pissed!!

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Norquist Nemesis

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Thu Oct-26-06 12:59 PM
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1. Go Shannon!!!

Link doesn't work for me...I pulled up Aurora as the community (I'm in 13th). Which town is the Southtown? Would love to read it!

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sueh

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Thu Oct-26-06 01:32 PM
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3. Sorry. Here's a link that should work...

http://www.dailysouthtown.com/news/opinion/editorials/112390,1EDT1-26.article

Southown in the 11th district covers part of eastern Will County. Other counties in the district are LaSalle, Ottawa, Bureau and Mc Clean. One of the "big cities" in Will County is Joliet, so maybe that will help give you an idea of where we're located. I'm in Crete,about 30 miles southeast of Joliet, about 10 miles from the Illinois/Indiana border.

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Thu Oct-26-06 01:44 PM
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4. Ahhhh...pitter patter goes my heart!!!

Thanks!

"In the west and southwest suburban 13th District, incumbent Republican Judy Biggert is another solid supporter of the Bush agenda. She even told our editorial board that she thinks Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is "doing a good job." Biggert, 69, of Hinsdale, has the unenviable assignment of being a Republican member of the House Ethics Committee at a time when congressional ethics are being challenged in almost every imaginable way. It may be that the House Republican leadership deserves the most blame for the Ethics committee's ineffective performance, but the individual members must share some of the blame.

The challenger is Shannon, 43, an attorney from Woodridge. He is an energetic middle-of-the-road Democrat who blames Biggert and her party for irresponsible spending that has turned a huge federal surplus into an $8.3 trillion deficit, in part by handing out "corporate welfare" to the tune of $200 billion that will be paid to pharmaceutical companies by 2010. He says he would work toward health care coverage for everyone, which he notes is guaranteed in the new Iraqi constitution and asks why that's not the case in the United States. And while the Republican Congress takes credit for tax cuts, Shannon points out that gasoline prices doubled the last five years. "That sounds to me like a tax increase," Shannon said. Meanwhile, Congress and the White House did little to encourage alternate fuel use.

We think the 13th District would benefit from electing a congressman with the perspective of the father of five young children, and we endorse Shannon.

Voters in the 11th and 13th who are inclined to think the nation would be better off with a Democratic majority in the House can help achieve that goal by electing these two young Democrats to Congress. It's not clear, for example, that a Democratic majority could force a new direction in Iraq, but it's a certainty that a continued Republican majority will exert no pressure on the White House to change."

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Thu Oct-26-06 01:32 PM
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2. Try this:

http://www.dailysouthtown.com/news/opinion/editorials/112390,1EDT1-26.article

The Daily Southtown covers the southwest side of the City, southwestern suburbs, Oak Lawn, Orland Park, Tinley Park and the southern suburbs, Harvey, Thornton, etc.

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