***UPDATE: Chicago Tribune has also endorsed Pat Fee and blasted Stephanie Kifowit and Michael Madigan for their dishonest, sleazy campaign of misinformation.
Daily Herald has endorsed Pat Fee for State Representative of the 84th District of Illinois, which includes portions of Aurora, Naperville, Oswego, Montgomery and Boulder Hill.
Daily Herald has endorsed Pat Fee for State Representative of the 84th District of Illinois, which includes portions of Aurora, Naperville, Oswego, Montgomery and Boulder Hill.
we endorse Fee out of a belief that she, more than Kifowit, is apt to work to reduce the tightfisted grip that the hierarchy of legislative leadership holds over the process in Springfield. It’s an area that must be reformed, and we believe Fee would actively work for that reform
Despite all kinds of lies from Stephanie Kifowit to fool voters, having goons from Michael Madigan's political mafia working day and night along with hundreds of thousands of corrupt money from Madigan and his cronies, the race has become very tight, according to a poll not affiliated with either candidate.
Meanwhile, Pat Fee's campaign is calling out Kifowit for her habit of pay-to-play and ignoring ethics and transparency.
Kifowit recently voted on guaranteed pay raises for firefighters, but just days before she solicited and cashed contributions from a firefighters union for thousands in exchange for the vote.
“Straight from the Blagojevich playbook, Kifowit ignored the obvious conflict-of-interest and demonstrated disregard for basic ethics and transparency. It is time to stand up and say enough is enough to the practice of Pay-to-Play in Illinois!” said Michael Flaherty, campaign manager for Pat Fee.
“As State Representative, Pat Fee will deal with issues such as pay raises and the state’s difficult fiscal situation in a transparent manner, independent voice with bipartisan cooperation to find solutions. Families are struggling after Kifowit voted to increase taxes almost 50%, so we should be focusing on fiscal reform and responsibility instead of voting for guaranteed pay raises with pay-to-play behind-the-scenes.”
Pat Fee has been advocating the repeal of the historic 67% income tax increase and reforming worker's compensation in order to help small businesses in the community to thrive again.
“Illinois needs to get off the fiscal cliff and onto a responsible fiscal path that will let us create jobs, grow our economy and change Illinois,” said Pat Fee.
Neither Kifowit nor Madigan could be reached for this story.
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If this race is even close and not a 70-30 route of Fee over Kifowit it will prove that IL is a totally corrupt cesspool and that the voters of IL are total idiots and deserve their fate.
Stand For Children Illinois endorses Kifowit:
stand.org/illinois/action/elect-education-champions/stephanie-kifowit
Sierra Club endorses Kifowit:
illinois.sierraclub.org/vote/house.html
Labor leaders support Kifowit:
foxvalleylabornews.com/2012/06/22/labor-leaders-come-out-to-support-stephanie-kifowit/
"according to a poll not affiliated with either candidate."
So then who did this poll you're quoting? If you're going to cite a source, you should name that source. If it exists.
And quotes from a press release from Fee's campaign aren't a credible source, either.
What really worries me is the talk about "reforming" worker's compensation. That's Republican code for throwing injured workers under the bus.
Sierra Club- Mavis Bates and Charlie Zine - Two of Aurora finest losers
Labor Leaders - Enough said
Stand for Children - another state funded org. producing nothing but campaign workers and their salaries.
Where Madigan's endorsement, oh that's right according to Kifowit he's dying soon.
What really worries me is the talk about "reforming" worker's compensation. That's Republican code for throwing injured workers under the bus.
Your fonts of ignorance are code for I do not understand why IL keeps losing companies to other states and why our unemployment rate is so much higher.
But didn't the worker's comp system already get changed w/in the past year? So instead of filing w/ the commission and the commission deciding the claim, all the employer has to do is deny the claim and now the worker has to file a lawsuit thru the courts? Thereby encouraging the employer to deny all claims, even the ones they KNOW are legit, in the hope the worker will just give up.
I have no problems w/ the employer not being held responsible for false claims, BUT the rights of a worker who truly was injured on the job need to be protected. Employers will always do whatever increases their bottom line, even if it's morally and legally wrong.
Kifowit was endorsed by STAND FOR CHILDREN in the primary not the general election!!
The problem with IL is this, if you are employed in another state and are working at a location in IL and are injured or traveling in IL they will always tell you to file in IL instead of any other state the reason - IL has that much higher of payouts for workman comp claims! Seriously.
Not only does IL have low standards (repetitive motion etc) but it has the highest payouts. For instance a minimum of 500K for death. So you are french fry salter and 64, with one last year of productivity and you do something stupid on the job(say electric shock) and kill yourself and a 8.00 and hour fry cook with only on year of work left before retirement gets 500k to his heirs. many other states would actually calculate the economic impairment to your family so 8.00 x 40 x 50 = 16k verses 500k. I know the example is extreme but illustrates the point about IL.
1:09 you reveal your true colors. I'm not going to get into the payout for death, because really no formula is going to be accepted for that. But you throw out "repetitive motion" as if that's automatically a non-legit claim, when in fact it IS a legit reason for a claim. They push the worker to go faster to increase productivity, don't worry about ergonomics to reduce the strain on the specific areas of the body, because they figure if they wear the worker out and his body breaks down, they'll just dump him and find someone else to do the job -- IF they didn't have to worry about workman's comp. The thought of having to pay out to the worker encourages the employer to put in appropriate preventive programs that could greatly reduce the incidence of repetitive motion injuries. You think the employer will do that out of the goodness of his heart (if he has one)? No, it's only the thought of workman's comp that gets the employer to do the right thing.
6:49 -true colors? I am just pointing out why IL has such a bad rap with employers looking at labor issues and why so many companies are leaving and why so many no loner expand here.
I have no agenda or judgements on it, just explaining the perception and the reality.
We live in a mobile, globalized economy. IL is non-competitive with other states and the world as a whole. Labor and capital always flows to along the path of least resistance.
Just saying...
I took a quick poll in my ward, two guys claim Kifowit gave them head and a third says she not only sucked his dick but fucked him too.
On the other hand Pat Fee seems to adhere to her marriage vows.
So you might say Kifowit clearly gets to the head of the matter.
Upset because she turned you down, 5:29? Don't be upset. After all, it's probably so small she wouldn't be able to find it, anyway.
7:48 - your wife never complained.
She said she didn't want to hurt your feelings, 12:50. But she laughed the rest of the night when she got home. Said it was the first time she had to use a magnifying glass. She was starting to wonder if she'd ended up with another woman.
Yeah well your wife may have laughed to you about it, but here toes were pointing skyward and she was screaming oh god oh god as I tapped her ass. Apparently she found my diminutive stature good for something.
LOL. You must be remembering the last time YOU got tapped.
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