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10th District Heating Up
Lakeland Journal - July 7, 2006
The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan Washington political publication, recently upgraded the 10th District race between Dan Seals and Mark Kirk to its Competitive House Race chart. Seals is turning up the heat on U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk R-Highland Park.
Seals, a Wilmette resident, on leave from his position as Director of Marketing at General Electric Commercial Finance to campaign full time against Kirk, blasted him for Anti-veteran voting, the day the U.S. military announced the death of the 2500th serviceman in Iraq in three years.
"Just last year, Kirk voted to cut veterans benefits by $13.5 billion over 5 years. Two years before that he voted to cut the same benefits by $30 billion over 10 years," Seals said in a statement.
Seals criticized Kirk for pledging to work toward providing Lake County veterans with state-of-the-art health care, but charges that Kirk has repeatedly cut the programs that would provide that care.
Seals said he didn't believe Kirk was representing the residents of the increasingly Democratic 10th District.
"In a district that has voted for a Democrat in every presidential race since 1996, incumbent Congressman Mark Kirk votes with his party 91.49% of the time," he said.
Seals and the Democrats of the 10th District were visited by U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Indiana, in Highland Park on June 30 to keynote a fundraiser. Bayh, who is in his second term as a U.S. Senator, has been pegged as a possible contender for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2008.
The 10th district includes all or part of Waukegan, Warren, Shields, Moraine, West Deerfield, Vernon, Libertyville, New Trier, Northfield, Wheeling, Elk Grove and Palatine Townships.
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