Vote for Foster, not more scare tactics

With all the mailers and TV ads, it's hard to miss there is a special election March 8 in the 14th U.S. House District.

Compare the mailers that each candidate is sending. Look at the wording. Listen carefully to the TV ads. Who is doing all the name-calling?

Jim Oberweis' mailers and TV adds use words and phrases like "extreme", "liberal" and "tax raiser." Look at the scare tactics. It is more of the same type of hype that we got from the Bush Administration during the run up to the Iraq war. Not surprising.

One of the outrageous claims being made by Oberweis is that "Bill Foster wants to raise your taxes by $3,914. He said so." Oberweis states this as fact, but I do not recall Foster making this statement.

Check out the references for the claims Oberweis is making for yourself. Do your homework. The reference is to a memo on the Web site of the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Is Oberweis implying that just because Bill Foster is a Democrat he can make the statement that "Bill Foster wants to raise your taxes. He said so"? It's not logical; it's deliberate scare tactics. Is this the "logic" we want to represent us? I don't think so.

If Oberweis and now the Republican National Committee are making these unsupported claims as a central issue of his campaign, what can we believe?

Can we believe the statement "Jim Oberweis will lower taxes on families and businesses" as printed on one of his latest mailers? Is this a campaign promise? I'd be interested to know how he expects to do this, although I hope he never gets a chance to try. This is not the type of person we should send to Congress.

Wake up 14th District. It is the responsibility of every registered voter to vote on March 8. Don't vote for unsupported hype and scare tactics.

Vote for integrity, honesty, fiscal responsibility and the analytical capacity to tackle the difficult problems that face this country. Vote for Bill Foster.

David Johnson

Geneva