Hultgren is not what Congress needs

I dispute the Daily Herald's endorsement of U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren.

Hultgren supported the government shutdown that hurt businesses in Illinois and the U.S. economy in every measurable way. He was the only Illinois congressman who did this, cynically working for philosophical points at our expense.

Hultgren's "Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act" allows "Swaps" to be insured by the FDIC, which is the fund that insures our bank accounts, not big banks' risky credit swap deals. These types of investments led to the economic meltdown of 2008.

Hultgren's bill is literally a bailout bill. Citibank virtually wrote most of the bill. Hultgren co-sponsors one anti-abortion bill after another. He is a global warming denier and a creationist.

Yet he sits on the U.S. House's Science, Space and Technology Committee.

Is that who the Herald wants representing Congressional District 14?

The Herald's dismissal of Dennis Anderson, Hulgren's opponent, as a retired medical industry executive is misleading. Anderson spent his career managing budgets and programs for cancer research at Loyola University and the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

He managed multiple health care projects for the state of Wisconsin. He is not a career politician like Randy Hultgren. We need a health care expert in the House.

Hultgren is an ideologue who gets paid $175K a year to waste time on ceremonial votes and photo ops, while ignoring what his constituents actually want.

John Pakledinaz

Mundelein