Every year, we celebrate 10th District volunteer accomplishments with a dinner and awards ceremony. This year’s event was a big success! A standing room only crowd of more than 125 included candidates and elected officials from our area, last week in Deerfield.
Scroll down for photos from last week — then chip in $35 or more to be a part of this in 2016.
Co-Chair Bonnie Berger-Neel (pictured below) and Communications Director Eric Herman were recognized for their hard work organizing volunteers and preparing Tenth Dems communications for next year’s elections.
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Keynote Speaker David Yepsen — who The Washington Post called the “King of the Iowa Caucuses” — kept the audience engaged with stories from his three decades reporting on Iowa politics at The Des Moines Register. He is currently director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University, which you can follow on Facebook.
One message was echoed throughout the night: Tenth Dems volunteers accomplished a lot in 2015 — but there’s still more work to do.
We need to continue to register voters, recruit volunteer leaders, and keep a spotlight on Republicans Mark Kirk and Bob Dold’s double-talk.
Reserve your 2016 Tenth Dems membership so local Democrats have the resources they need in the new year.
Also: Check out more photos from the fundraiser on Facebook.
Highland Park, IL – Thanks to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) it’s no secret that the House Benghazi Committee is designed to hurt Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers in the middle of a presidential election. Of course, this isn’t the first time Republicans have wasted time and tax dollars attacking the Clintons. In fact, our very own Republican Congressman Bob Dold has a history of playing partisan politics in an attempt to take down the Clintons.
Dold’s political career was interrupted when Bill Clinton defeated Dold’s boss, Vice President Dan Quayle. Dold then worked for Bob Dole in his failed effort to retake the White House for the Republican Party.
Then Dold joined other Republicans obsessed with investigating the Clintons as part of a congressional committee so reckless that it managed to embarrass even Newt Gingrich. When the Chairman of Dold’s committee (Rep. Dan Burton) wasn’t busy shooting watermelons to desperately prove a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton murdering her friend (Vince Foster) who actually had committed suicide, he was wasting taxpayer money on heavily-edited tapes to show that she was guilty of yet a different crime. (The Washington Post, 1/31/12)
Nowadays, Bob Dold either painfully avoids mentioning his unpopular political party or talks as if all he did was flip a coin to decide which party’s ticket to run on. Given his often-overlooked career as a Republican partisan, it’s preposterous, but a neat trick. Maybe he learned it from Quayle, Dole, or Chairman Burton. Perhaps he was instructed to use it by the national Republicans he recently signed a secret contract with. (The Washington Post, 9/3/15)
In any event, Bob Dold’s deep, partisan Republican roots that led him to try to tear down the Clintons at every turn fail to reflect the values of the people of the 10th District.
Please follow this link to our Fifth Annual Special Literary Edition of the Tenth News. Read prize-winning poetry and short prose works written by high school students in Waukegan, Zion, and North Chicago. These students were honored last spring at the Tenth Dems Community Connection’s Fifth Annual Poetry and Prose Competition and Awards Ceremony. Their works were chosen from among several hundred submissions for recognition and cash prizes by our panel of judges, all of whom are published authors. You will be delighted and moved by the talent of these young people.
The American Democracy Legal Fund has filed an ethics complaint against Bob Dold and 22 other Republicans for agreeing to provide details of their legislative strategies in exchange for “special attention” and “campaign cash” from the National Republican Campaign Committee.
The formal ethics complaint spells out how the “vulnerable Republican House Members are literally selling their legislative agendas to a political committee for campaign cash,” and states the intent of the contract is to “use the official resources available to [these Members] to coordinate…their legislative strategies…with the NRCC.”
Members of Congress are prohibited from using federal resources for campaign purposes. The ethics complaint can be accessed here.
