Presidential Debate Hosted by AFL-CIO in
Last week I had an opportunity to attend the
AFL-CIO
sponsored debate in Soldier Field in
Local Contacts for some of the Presidential
Campaigns
Some of the Democratic Presidential candidates have established contact
people
in
Union Elections – enough with the bumper
stickers
Some local union is having or had an election, and
some
thoughtless person has put up bumper stickers over signs throughout
Congressional District 14 –
Linda Chapa LaVia out
Most of Warrenville is in CD14,
represented by Dennis Hastert. It is
widely expected that he will not run for reelection in 2008, but that
is not
for certain. Aurora State Representative
Linda Chapa LaVia had established an exploratory committee to run for
congress,
but now she says that she will not. That
leaves three possible Democratic Candidates – Iraq Veteran and 2006
candidate
John Laesch, Physicist and Businessman William Foster, and attorney
Jotham
Stein.
Unity 08 – not a good thing.
I write this column from a
Democratic Point of View. Many of my
friends and some readers of this column are Republicans.
As a general rule, I would say that
Republicans care about the country and have different opinions about
how to
solve many of the issues that our country faces. But
I now fear that next year’s election is
going to be messed up by a third force, currently going by the name
Unity
08. This group believes that the
only
problem the country faces is partisan bickering. They
are going to run someone for President,
and at the moment they are attracting support even though they haven’t
identified any ideology. Rather than build
a movement from the ground up, and establish a track record in a single
state
or locality, they will put up a candidate for President.
Two things are working in their favor. The
primary season has been moved up, so
there is a lot of time for them to appeal to people after the
democratic
process winnows the field. And this is exactly the sort of thing that
the
national media loves. All they could
really offer, however, is to replace partisan bickering with
non-partisan
bickering. And someone could really do
well, in a situation like this, only if they appeal to a cult of
personality. That does our country no
good. The only choices that third
parties have offered us in recent years are Ross Perot, Ralph Nader,
Jesse
Ventura and Kinky Friedman, nothing that could solve one additional
problem.
The DuPage Democratic Club
The DuPage Democratic Club operates independently
of the
Democratic Party of DuPage County. It
was previously known as the Lombard Democratic Club.
It meets monthly on the second Thursday ten
months per year at
There is also a newspaper from the DuPage
Democratic Club
called the DuPage Democrat. It has been
published for decades, and I highly recommend that every concerned
Democrat
become a subscriber. At $10.00 a year,
it is a real bargain. Contact James Walsh,
Upcoming Events
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