Our campaign has thousands of yard signs throughout the 55th District. We enjoy giving them to supporters so they can show their support. Really, yard signs are more important to my supporters than they are to our campaign.
Today we received countless calls from our supporters saying their yard signs are being stolen. One such call from a voter included a video of the illegal act caught on camera.
Our campaign does not expend resources to engage in sign wars and instead will continue to talk to voters directly about key issues our opponent continues to remain silent on, like her opposition to a ban on AR-15’s and wish to defund Planned Parenthood.
If these acts are being committed with knowledge of the Smolenski campaign, it is sadly not the least bit surprising.
On top of Terra Costa Howard’s repeated lies, her team of 6+ paid “Madigoons” regularly steal yard signs. Now, this video from yesterday proves they’re stealing literature off your front door. Say NO to Terra Costa Howard and her Dirty Politics (paid for by Madigan’s Dirty Money)!
If you had any doubt that there’s been enough campaigning and it’s time to vote, the race for 6th District congressman in the western suburbs now is focusing on who swiped whose yard signs.
From a statement from incumbent Republican Peter Roskam: “Every day, local residents are calling the Roskam campaign office reporting yard signs stolen from their property or destroyed . . . To date, 350 Roskam for Congress yard signs have been reported stolen or lost. The sign theft dramatically increased since Roskam first called on (Democratic nominee Sean) Casten to stop his supporters’ shameful tricks. Casten’s response? Crickets.”
In 30 years of covering politics, this is the first time I’ve ever seen a sitting member of Congress send out a press release talking about yard signs. But back to that breathless release, which continues that an offending sign snatcher actually was caught on tape mumbling about moving the sign 20 miles away. It concludes, what else could be expected from a campaign like Casten’s that seeks not “bipartisanship and engaging constructively” but employs “hateful rhetoric.”
Responds the Casten camp, “We don’t steal signs. Period. And we don’t condone those who do, including those who have been stealing our signs—which have been disappearing as well. Peter Roskam is losing, and these kinds of wild accusations prove it.”
Chicagoans in minority neighborhoods on the West Side and South Side have the greatest exposure to toxic air pollution and other environmental health hazards in the city, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis that community groups are using to fight Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s industrial planning practices.
The findings were compiled by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group that plans to use the document to try to persuade city officials to end the common practice of steering scrap yards, distribution warehouses and other polluting businesses to neighborhoods with large concentrations of Latino and African-American residents.
Among the most dramatically affected communities, the group found, are Little Village, Pilsen and the far Southeast Side.
Activists in those communities say Emanuel’s city planners are pushing dirty industries to majority Latino and black communities, while neighborhoods like Lincoln Park on the more well-to-do North Side are shedding their industrial past for new condo buildings and high-end amenities.
* Meanwhile, you may recall this TV ad last summer from the American Chemistry Council touting US Rep. Peter Roskam…
That $209,000 TV ad buy and $185,050 in chemical industry contributions are coming back to haunt Roskam.
But the ad takes on new meaning now that the Sterigenics sterilization facility just outside Roskam’s west suburban district is under fire for emitting ethylene oxide, a highly potent, cancer-causing gas made by Dow Chemical, Union Carbide, Shell and several other members of the trade group.
Two months after the chemical industry’s pro-Roskam ad began airing, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a report revealing that communities surrounding the Sterigenics facility in Willowbrook are among just a few dozen in the country facing alarmingly high cancer risks from toxic air pollution, most notably ethylene oxide emissions. […]
Roskam’s supporters in the chemical industry have a dramatically different view.
Soon after the EPA released its report, the industry trade group quietly urged President Donald Trump’s administration to scuttle a stringent safety limit for ethylene oxide adopted in 2016 after more than a decade of debate. The agency relied heavily on the safety limit when it calculated its worrisome estimates of cancer risks in communities surrounding Sterigenics and other facilities across the nation that either manufacture or use the chemical.
Chemical companies are pushing the Trump EPA to declare that ethylene oxide is far less dangerous than the agency’s career staff and three separate panels of independent scientists determined. Industry-supported scientists have repeatedly downplayed animal research showing the chemical mutates DNA and studies of medical sterilization workers who suffered high rates of breast cancer, leukemia and lymphomas.
Today, the Rauner campaign is launching the latest “Back Bruce” testimonial video featuring Kwasi Amoah.
In the video, Kwasi reflects on why he thinks Governor Rauner is the best choice for governor. He knows that Governor Rauner is standing up for taxpayers, fighting to reduce taxes, and working to grow the Illinois economy to create a better future for the state.
Kwasi Amoah, you may recall, appears in another Rauner digital ad saying he was “offended” by what JB Pritzker said on those FBI surveillance tapes.
My name is Kwasi Amoah. I’m from Romeoville, Illinois. I am a safety professional, and I support Governor Rauner. Governor Rauner knows what Illinois needs. People who work in this state work so hard, and to be punished for working so hard, for taking money out of their pockets doesn’t make any sense. People are leaving this state in droves. I think a better future for Illinois is we’ve got to fix the deficit. We’ve got to get a better budget. We’ve got to stop spending. We can’t have social services if we don’t have revenue, if we are a broke state. Governor Rauner is the right choice for the next for years.
