In it for personal gain
I didn't think Sean Casten could be any more gravely misguided, but he just proved me wrong. In a recent telephone town hall meeting, he actually defended the operation of China's wet markets. (It's also worth noting that in March he praised China for their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.)
Apparently he's more worried about criticizing another culture's practices than he is about making our health and safety his priority.
This is beyond disturbing since in recent years, wet markets around the world have been breeding grounds for deadly global outbreaks including H1N1, SARS and now, COVID-19. The devastating health (and indeed, economic) dangers these wet markets pose have been well established by the U.S. Coronavirus Task Force, the Wildlife Conservation Society and the U.S. National Library of Medicine, among others. But Sean Casten ignores all that and the media isn't calling him out on it.
What possesses Casten to take such an ignorant and reckless position? I'll tell you what - his annoyingly predictable liberal political agenda and his quest for personal gain.
Nancy Pelosi tried to include taxpayer funding of abortion in the House coronavirus relief bill. Fortunately the Senate stopped her, but based on his past support for radical abortion legislation, I have no doubt that Casten would have celebrated "sneaking" that in.
He also personally signed a letter asking for renewable energy subsidies to be added to the COVID-19 Bill. He is invested in a renewable energy company and would have personally profited financially had it been added.
While Casten was trying to wrangle political and financial gains for himself, millions of suffering Americans sat waiting for true crisis relief.
In a nutshell, Sean Casten's No. 1 priority is himself. In a recent Facebook town hall, he said, "We're going to get through this by being civil, respectful and patient toward one another." Ha. He is on the social media bandwagon that promotes not only attacking Trump supporters by calling them killers and traitors, he wants to ban the president's COVID-19 daily addresses to the nation because he doesn't like him politically.
Sean Casten is the epitome of vitriolic hypocrisy and arrogance. Vote this inept and self-serving opportunist out of office in the 6th District.
Mary Plunkett
Wheaton