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New Lake County Coroner Teaching Kids to Protect Their Lives by Jane Goldenberg Lake County Coroner for Six Months, Dr In This Issue: Keller ..........................1 The Draft ................4-5 Kerry Says “Thanks” Kerry............................1 Bolton ........................5 Kerry/Kirk Votes? ....2 Connect the Dots......6 To Illinois Enron Movie Night ..2 Moraine Twnshp......8 by Diane Simpson-Bundy Air America ..............3 Letters ........................8 “I’ve been a terrible godfather,” “Uncle Johnny” told Hollister For information or to volunteer call: Bundy after I announced proudly how my husband – his 847.266.VOTE (8683) godson – and many other Illinois residents made frequent Or write to: pilgrimages across state borders to help “deliver” Wisconsin Lauren Beth Gash, Chair, Tenth Dems PO Box 523, Deerfield, IL 60015 and other battleground states in the 2004 presidential Visit the website: www.tenthdems.org election. Newsletter: [email protected] Then Sen. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) rubbed Hollister’s Editor John Hmurovic head, grabbed his former Yale roommate’s son by the Editorial Staff Sheldon Drobny, Lauren shoulders, and sandwiched me between them. He was sharing John and Teresa Heinz Kerry Beth Gash, Ellen Gill, Jane Goldenberg, a moment to reflect personally, as he tries to do when he gets Ross Nickow, James Rosen, George the chance, on not being able to reach out and thank everyone enough for all they tried to do to thwart Rosenblit, Diane Simpson-Bundy, Ben the dramatic shift to the right that this country has taken. Struhl, Neesa Sweet, Ron Weiner Will he or won’t he run in 2008? That was the question on the minds of the movers and the shakers Design Carol Jones th among the Illinois and Chicago-area elite during the dinner party hosted by the senator on May 3 at the The opinions expressed are those Casino Club in Chicago. of the writers, and10 not necessarily But this was neither a night for a fundraiser nor a night to rally political support. endorsed by Tenth Dems Continued on page 7 Tenth Newswww.tenthdems.org JUNE 2005 Illinois Tenth Congressional District Democrats Newsletter Volume 2, Edition 6 New Lake County Coroner Teaching Kids to Protect Their Lives by Jane Goldenberg Lake County Coroner for six months, Dr. Richard Keller is emphasizing public education to teach kids to protect their health and avoid for as long as possible an encounter with the coroner’s office, one of the busiest in the state after Cook County. “We’re doing programs to convince people that some of the things they’re doing can lead to their deaths. I’ve been doing pre-prom events, where we get the (juniors and seniors) out and talk to them and demonstrate the dangers of driving drunk… We’ll have done eight or nine of them,” Keller said, who has also done many career days at schools. “I use those as a soapbox to get into the evils of drugs and alcohol… all the way down to first graders,” he said. “I’ve done a program on violence and violence prevention (among kids and gangs) at a high school, the first time a coroner’s done that…. I did a program on sexual assault. It Dr. Richard Keller was recently visible in the was a trial run with La Casa, a sexual assault advocacy group.” national media due to the tragic murders of two young girls. Keller is also working to consolidate all drug-testing for the county in his office. “We’re the only office that has a toxicology lab in-house, other than Cook. We’ve been upgrading and updating that and have improved our capabilities in that regard over the past month or so,” he said, estimating they’ve been able to save about a third of their laboratory budget doing toxicology testing in-house rather than sending it to an outside lab. “We test for poisons, drugs, both prescription and recreational. We also test for carbon monoxide in fire victims,” he said. Continued on page 8 The Hon. Bill Crowley Tenth Congressional District Democratic State Central Committeemen The Hon. Lauren Beth Gash If You Voted for Enron Movie Kerry, How Could Sparks You Vote for Kirk? Discussion by John Hmurovic by Ellen Gill Some people believe Congressman Mark Kirk is a moderate Enron CEO Jeff Skilling ducked Republican, not at all a part of the right-wing conservative group that questions from Fortune reporter, Bethany McLean. Enron traders controls the White House and Congress. There must be a lot of those ENRON: The Smartest Guys smirked at their handiwork in the people in the 10th District, because while 53 percent of us voted for in the Room, now playing at California energy crisis, yelling “burn Democrat John Kerry in 2004, 64 percent voted for Republican Kirk. Renaissance Theatre, baby burn” at television news reports Highland Park To those of you who voted for Kirk and Kerry, do you really know what of California wildfires. Enron supporter, Kirk stands for? If you do, how can you believe in what John Kerry Arnold Schwarzenegger, manipulated stood for and still vote for Mark Kirk? the situation to become governor of California. These were scenes Kirk recently voted with the Republican majority to end the estate tax. from the documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, the Many agreed that the tax needed to be reformed, and Democrats feature presentation at offered a compromise. The Democratic proposal would have exempted Tenth Dems movie night in 99.7 percent of Americans from paying the tax. That wasn’t good Highland Park on May 1st. enough for Kirk. He wanted the wealthiest 0.3 percent to pass on their After the viewing, Tenth wealth tax-free to their children. Dems members and supporters moved to a To protect the inheritances of the Paris Hiltons, who did nothing to earn restaurant across the their wealth except be born into it, Kirk added $290 billion to the budget street for a discussion. deficit by going along with other Republicans to end the estate tax. That was a few days after Kirk and the Republicans voted to cut off Tenth Dems food stamp payments to 300,000 poor families, Medicaid funding to Administrative Committee seven million poor elderly people in nursing homes, and day care funds Lauren Beth Gash displays some of the member, Ross Nickow, led for 300,000 poor children, because there wasn’t enough money to pay newest buttons available from Tenth Dems the discussion, pointing for it. Most of these people did To purchase buttons contact us at out that while most view nothing to deserve their poverty, [email protected]. the Enron story as one of except be born into it. Kirk voted numbers manipulation, against them, and for the Paris writer/director Alex Gibney made the documentary a human story. Hiltons. Is that how you would Gibney believes that Enron executives did not set out to create a have voted? fraudulent scheme, but lost their way amid greed, arrogance and fear. Many in our viewing group commented on the obscene greed Kirk’s vote on the estate tax was of Enron executives and traders, and the insidious relationships not a strange break from his between Enron executives, the energy industry, Schwarzenegger, usual pattern. Look at his vote on Cheney and Bush, and expressed shock in how Enron executives the Republican plan to make it were able to get away with the harm they caused to California and harder for the poor to file for the rest of the country for so long. bankruptcy. Credit card giant MBNA spends $5 million a year on lobbying Congress, not to mention Remarkable to the audience was the willingness of others, such as what it contributes to individual candidates. And it was just one of Enron’s accountants, lawyers, and business partners to go along many credit card, banking, and other corporate interests that lobbied Continued on page 3 for passage of this bill. Filing for bankruptcy allows people to get a fresh start. Most people who fall into bankruptcy are not gamblers who lost everything in a wild night in a casino. They are single mothers in low-paying jobs, ordinary Americans who suddenly became ill and lost everything to medical bills. The bankruptcy bill makes it difficult for them to get a fresh start. Mark Kirk voted against these people, and in favor of the credit card companies. Is that how you wanted Kirk to vote? Congressman Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts) said that “for most of the 20th century…(Americans) looked out for each other. We provided food for the hungry, shelter for the homeless, assistance to the unemployed, and health care to the sick. But the Republican leadership wants to turn that system upside down. They believe the wealthy should be exempt from paying taxes and the poor should fend for themselves.” This is the kind of government Mark Kirk votes for. Is it what you Ross Nickow leads the discussion at Michael’s in Highland Park, after believe in? the movie. 2 Air America The Air America Radio Day by Neesa Sweet Radio Returns to Sometime around November of last year, in the days leading up to the election, I realized I never left my computer. That's because Air America, the liberal talk radio network, streamed through my computer speakers instead of over the Chicago airwaves--and there was information there that I just wasn't getting anywhere by Sheldon Drobny else. I eventually put XM in the car, but I'm thrilled that Air America, or most of it, is back on the air in Chicago on WCPT AM 850. So here are a few thoughts from Anyone who read my an Air America addict on the various shows: book, Road To Air Morning Sedition, Sunrise-8AM : Marc Maron is a comic, writer, America, or saw the HBO cultural critic and late-night TV presence, whose one man show, "The special, Left of the Dial, knows the Jerusalem Syndrome," ran off-Broadway and became a book.
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