Elect Scheurer and ditch Bean
The incumbent is at it again in the state's 8th Congressional District: Voting with the Republicans; supporting the Bush regime; voting for warrantless wiretapping; weakening our Constitution, our right to live in a free and open democracy; turning our "Democratic values" into a cliche; lining her campaign pockets from the coffers of special interests in Washington while ignoring the interests of the working people in the district she is supposed to be serving.
And then there is Randi Scheurer, one of the best progressive candidates in the country, ready to unseat one of the worst pro-war Bush Democrats, Melissa Bean of "CAFTA 15" fame.
Bean's margin of victory dropped from 54 percent in 2004 to 50 percent in 2006, and will only continue to sink. People don't like her politics. The Democratic Party base will not support her. All she has left is TV money, corporate and partisan donors, and the party machine. Is that really what we want?
So why continue supporting this bad incumbent when we have Randi Scheurer, who is a true progressive with real Democratic values?
If we have any hope of getting out of the black hole we are allowing ourselves to be sucked into, we must unite around Scheurer or be consumed by the heartless political machine keeping us hostage to their greedy, destructive agenda of war without end, inhumane health care (sick people pay higher premiums -- so don't get sick or have a preexisting condition), and out-sourcing of jobs for the benefit of corporate executives, boards of directors and elected officials like Bean (in the pocket of the largest corporate lobbyist in Washington -- the U.S. Chamber of Commerce).
It comes as no surprise that she has reached an all time low as the only Democrat to vote against the $607 billion Labor-HHS appropriations bill -- legislation important to the House leadership as an example of the Democrats' traditional commitment to the poor, sick and elderly.
We need to unseat Bean now before she does any more harm!
Jean Paskalides
Island Lake