That’s right. Peter Roskam is pretty much as bad as it gets.
You have one vote in the House of Representatives and Peter Roskam is using it to advance the interests of big banks, and insurance companies, and oil companies – rather than to help you.
Roskam has consistently voted against a fair minimum wage for workers and against equal pay for equal work – at the same time advocating unlimited compensation for corporate executives. He has repeatedly opposed efforts to expand the Children’s Health Insurance Program and uses taxpayer dollars to send out campaign materials advocating against Democratic efforts to make affordable healthcare available to all Americans. He has used his vote to prevent workers from organizing for better pay and working conditions and has opposed reasonable workplace safety regulations.
As the country has struggled to recover from the economic collapse resulting from the disastrous policies of the Bush Administration, Peter Roskam has refused to extend unemployment benefits to displaced workers and has voted against continuation of government food relief programs. Worse still, he uses his office to work for still more of the corporate deregulation that brought us to this low point to begin with.
Roskam stood silent while the Bush administration carried out torture and endless illegal detention in your name and wasted billions on pointless military adventures and payouuts to corrupt defense contractors.
And as global climate change and its devastating ecological consequences threaten our children’s future, Roskam is siding with the big polluters and the U.S. Chamber to prevent any meaningful response.
But now you have another chance to make that all change. His name is Ben Lowe and he is a generous young man, a progressive Democrat, who has put his life on hold in order to run against Roskam next fall when no one else would. Ben is an exceptionally bright and capable person, unbeholden to corporate interests, who proposes to use that one vote in Congress to do things that will help all of us. You can read about some of his ideas here.
But because Ben is an outsider, he has an exceptionally difficult task ahead of him in securing the kind of support from the national party that can help him win against a generously-funded Peter Roskam in November. To secure that support, it is absolutely critical that those of us in the district who want change do everything we can to show our support for Ben as our candidate. And that means donating whatever we can afford, however large or small an amount that may be, to Ben’s campaign. I have done so, and will continue to do so as I am able. I hope you will also send Ben something today.You can make donations online at Ben’s Campaign website:
Ben Lowe for Congress, Illinois 6th District
