Two weeks ago – on one of the proudest days of my life – I received the endorsement of Illinois’s firefighters. During the course of speaking with all the representatives in attendance, many of them thanked me. They thanked me for simply saying that I’d work to protect their funding. It should be the other way around – we should be thanking them every single day for what they actually do. The firefighters shouldn’t have to thank their representatives or candidates for protecting them. But that’s exactly the kind of climate that has dominated Washington recently – not even funding for our fire departments is above the partisan brinksmanship.
I’m running for Congress for two simple reasons: because we can do better, and we deserve better.
We can do better than this Tea Party do-nothing Congress. Two years ago we were promised jobs and return to fiscal discipline, but all we’ve gotten is debates on Planned Parenthood and the first credit downgrade in our nation’s history. At a time when we should be preserving Medicare and Social Security for our seniors, Republicans in Congress are voting to slash these programs and force seniors to pay more for their health care, all while offering more and more tax breaks to the wealthy and the oil corporations. I’ve spent more than 25 years working with small businesses, and I’ve never seen economic conditions less conducive to helping them and more conducive to lining special interests’ pockets. We can do better for them and for all of us – especially our kids.
We deserve better than the debt we’re leaving and the environment we’re impairing. During the Bush presidency, Washington dug a four trillion-dollar hole with two wars, an unfunded prescription drug program, and the largest tax cut ever for the top earners. Subsequently, the current Congress has been rolling back women’s access to health care, weakening the EPA, and impeding the steady march of LGBT equality. This is not the world that I want to create for my two boys and their generation. In my office, when I see our 87 summer interns – college and high school kids – working hard every single day, I know that I owe back to them the same effort and dedication that they’ve shown my campaign. We owe them far better than they’ve seen in the 112th Congress.
This is why I’m running to represent the 10th district: because we can do better, and we will do better.
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Brad Schneider
Candidate for United States Congress - 10th District
It frankly doesn't show a lot of confidence about that plan when you in one sentence tell women that their access to heathcare will be cut, yet that healthcare plan just passed supposedly will solve that problem, we were told. Perhaps you have $14 trillion dollars sitting around to pay for our debt and the cost of all these programs you mention, Mr. Schneider. The American taxpayer does not. And unless you want your children to face complete economic collapse, I'd suggest you and those in office start taking paying that debt off a heck of a lot more seriously. Nowhere in your statement do you offer a single idea about how to do that. Instead, you are clearly stating your anger that there isn't MORE funding for these things. Spend, spend spend. I have to pay my bills on time, unlike the government, sir.
Which party hasn't passed a budget in over a 1,000 days? Which party raised taxes on the middle class over a half a trillion dollars? Which president has taken over three quarters of a trillion out of Medicare? I could go on, but you sir want to blame others for the failing of the president and your party Enjoy the truth....
Better yet, put the larger numbers in perspective: 1 Million seconds = 12 days 1 Billion seconds = 32 years 1 Trillion seconds = 31,688 years 14 Trillion seconds = 443,632 years
I have known you for a number of years (I am glad that I don't have to use my real name because you have no idea what I really believe) and you have always seemed to be a solid nice guy with a great family. When I saw the headline of this article I thought I would read a good, detailed and well thought out piece about what is wrong in this country and what you will do to fix the problems. Instead of a well reasoned statement all I read was a cut and paste job that probably came from some national office memo. I am very disappointed that you did not address any issues facing this country but instead you were just some partisan hack that brought nothing to the table. I many ways this piece "why I'm running" is no different than the usual letter to the editor or kool-aid drinker that typically posts here. It is sad that you blew the opportunity to tell potential voters about the issues and your solutions and instead provided an inpersonal, generic piece that just blames the other guy and pretends that your side were passive bystanders during the past 50 years. Sorry Brad, this year the usual tactics (ie. the other guy is for dirty air, dirty water, wants to starve poor people, wants to throw grandma out in the street, wants to give tax breaks to the wealthy, hates the middle class and wants to round up gays) won't work.
How sad that the Democrats felt they had to bend the rules and the will of the people by re-districting everything in their favor because they couldn't win fair and square. I can't speak of what Dold did or did not do because I am not privy to the allegations, true or untrue. But I know for fact that when an entire political party re-districts everything to their liking or favor because they lost last time, it is a slap in the face to those who voted to begin with. It also tells me how little those politicians in downstate Illinois who did the re-districting value people's votes and opinions. We are massively in debt, and instead of solving that problem, what did Quinn, Madigan and his pals do? They were busy worrying about how they could rig things so they'd win more political seats by re-districting.
You are a bastion of impeccable logic. That is truly George W. Shrub level logic.
It doesn't change the fact that all I see in this candidate's statement is himself patting himself on the back, blaming others and offering zero ideas in terms of solutions to our debt problems. And you have no idea exactly how many votes Seals would have gotten in a new map because the lines drawn have completely different boundaries than the old ones did...and there is no way you could possibly know since some of the old and new districts overlap....unless of course you are psychic and know exactly how people in every specific neighborhood voted. So your statement is a complete assumption based on nothing factual whatsoever. There's absolutely, positively, no possible way you can know how one part of a district voted compared to another part of that same district....let alone garner a specific number like 52.7 percent from it. Furthermore, the re-districting is an effort to gain more overall seats total regardless of whether it changes this specific race or not.
No reference about who the e-mail is to or from....for all we know you are some crazy person making all this up....your alleged e-mail only makes you seem more suspcious.....who write like that in the message above? It makes no sense!
Sure, as long as they worked over 40 hours and they are paid hourly. I'm skeptical on the latter in your situation.
The Grover Norquist signers, including Bob Dold, held the Congress hostage and stalled legislation even threatening the shut down of the government. Mr Schneider is correct, this caused a US downgrade - never heard of before. Congress is responsible for the budget.. The last time I looked the Republicans are in charge of the House. While Democrats are in charge of the Senate, Republicans again by using the filibuster stoped any legislation to fix our budget. Enjoy the truth......
The insurance company issue can easily be fixed with Single payer. I don't want a 6- 8 thousand dollars Medicare vouchers which no company will take if you have pre-existing conditions. I'll take Obama Care any day!
They were busy worrying about how to keep control of Lake County offices to continue the injustices going on and pay to play tactics.
Your partisan rhetoric does nothing to ensure us that you are any different from the far leftists on your side of the aise. I was told you were independent and different, but it appears that isn't so.
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