Northfield Opinion
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Why is Dan Seals hiding from Kirk?Oct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - This week Dan Seals officially called off his last debate with Mark Kirk. It was to be held in Waukegan on Tuesday, Oct. 28. Seals has not enlightened the voters why he ...
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Forte-Scott will fight for our childrenOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - The recent campaign for state representative in the 56th district has turned into a nasty attack of lies and deception. I have seen numerous pieces of mail criticizing A...
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Link has special interest in casinoOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - In the Sept. 30 edition of the Daily Herald the article on gambling expansion with the local candidates' positions is incomplete. You noted that Sen. Terry Link "has rep...
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Doesn't trust Duffy on CN questionOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - I live in Barrington near the EJ&E railroad tracks. Canadian National wants to buy the EJ&E tracks, and increase traffic to 20 freights a day. That's why I don't plan to...
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Seals is wrong on Social SecurityOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Dan Seals once again provided unintentional hilarity for me when he claimed that he is now some great defender of Social Security. I just began drawing Social Security b...
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Froehlich betrayed his party, his friendsOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Paul Froehlich used to be the kind of elected official that I looked up to. From my perspective, I wanted to be like Paul Froehlich. When I wanted to become more activel...
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Kirk fights wasteful spendingOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - I am writing to commend Congressman Mark Kirk for holding the line on wasteful spending and pork. Kirk is the only member of the appropriations committee, the Congressio...
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Kirk commended for education fightOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - I am writing to commend Mark Kirk for his essential work on education for the underprivileged. Impact aid is the money the federal government pays to schools that educat...
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Mailer smeared Congressman KirkOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - In the past few weeks my mailbox has been flooded by misleading fliers from a group calling itself "Patriot Majority Midwest." The first few peddled the same lie: that M...
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Beware members of the 'Turncoat' PartyOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Paul Froehlich and Fred Crespo. Many loyal Republicans worked to get them elected because we believed they had the same values and goals as we did. We gave them one of t...