FUN FACTS FOR ROSKAM'S NEW CONSTITUENTS
Congressman Peter Roskam (IL-6th), sent an email blast to me and my fellow 6th District constituents lamenting the problem he faces in is third re-election bid this November. The Democratic remap of Illinois legislative districts caused a geographic alteration of Roskam's 6th District which has swapped out 530,000, roughly 75% of Roskam's 707,000 constituents, with an equal number from other districts. Roskam's plea was for us remaining 25% to reach out to these new Roskam constituents to inform them of his "common sense conservative solutions in Congress".
Always willing to serve my district, here is vital information about my Congressman every new constituent should know.
1. Congressman Roskam has never met a senseless and bankrupting military venture he didn't embrace. Since joining Congress over five years ago, the Congressman has voted to squander roughly a trillion dollars on our wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya; our near wars in Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, Iran, Syria; and any other place the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex can make a buck. I provide this information because you won't find it on Roskam's website, www.roskam.house.gov, nor will Roskam produce a membership card in the aforementioned Complex. That violates their rules. But if you support senseless war and can profit from it, you can trust Roskam to deliver.
2. Congressman Roskam apparently believes that everyone in his district has adequate health care since he is zealous in trying to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act. If your not so covered you can always go the the Emergency Room. With the Congresscare Roskam enjoys, he is completely insulated from the prospect of financial catastrophe the forty million uninsured face every single day from a looming major medical problem.
3. Do you like 19th century energy policies? If so, Roskam may be your guy. He has embraced Sarah Palin's "Drill, Baby, Drill" slogan with his reliance on the XL Pipeline project as the cure-all to high gas prices. No one has yet to call the Congressman a champion of green energy solutions. He still hasn't come to terms with the 20th century energy problems much less embrace the 21st century crisis we're facing.
4. If you are one of those, like Congressman Roskam, who skipped the 3rd birthday party of President Obama's Economic Stimulus Bill because you deny it created or saved about three million jobs, then you and he are in good company. We may not be under 8% unemployment yet, but without it we would have experienced about 12% unemployment before the President's 23 straight months of private sector job growth, creating 3.5 million jobs began to kick in. Hint: you won't find anything about those encouraging economic numbers on Roskam's web site either.
5. Work for a Catholic hospital or university that takes government subsidies and you need contraception in your health care coverage? If it's up to Congressman Roskam, forget about it. He has stretched the definition of religious freedom like an infinite rubber band so women in desperate need will go without.
There is more, but in the interest of brevity, these five tidbits of life under Roskam governance will suffice for now. However, the Congressman can call on me anytime for additional support in creating an informed electorate of new constituents. I'm here to help.
Always willing to serve my district, here is vital information about my Congressman every new constituent should know.
1. Congressman Roskam has never met a senseless and bankrupting military venture he didn't embrace. Since joining Congress over five years ago, the Congressman has voted to squander roughly a trillion dollars on our wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya; our near wars in Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, Iran, Syria; and any other place the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex can make a buck. I provide this information because you won't find it on Roskam's website, www.roskam.house.gov, nor will Roskam produce a membership card in the aforementioned Complex. That violates their rules. But if you support senseless war and can profit from it, you can trust Roskam to deliver.
2. Congressman Roskam apparently believes that everyone in his district has adequate health care since he is zealous in trying to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act. If your not so covered you can always go the the Emergency Room. With the Congresscare Roskam enjoys, he is completely insulated from the prospect of financial catastrophe the forty million uninsured face every single day from a looming major medical problem.
3. Do you like 19th century energy policies? If so, Roskam may be your guy. He has embraced Sarah Palin's "Drill, Baby, Drill" slogan with his reliance on the XL Pipeline project as the cure-all to high gas prices. No one has yet to call the Congressman a champion of green energy solutions. He still hasn't come to terms with the 20th century energy problems much less embrace the 21st century crisis we're facing.
4. If you are one of those, like Congressman Roskam, who skipped the 3rd birthday party of President Obama's Economic Stimulus Bill because you deny it created or saved about three million jobs, then you and he are in good company. We may not be under 8% unemployment yet, but without it we would have experienced about 12% unemployment before the President's 23 straight months of private sector job growth, creating 3.5 million jobs began to kick in. Hint: you won't find anything about those encouraging economic numbers on Roskam's web site either.
5. Work for a Catholic hospital or university that takes government subsidies and you need contraception in your health care coverage? If it's up to Congressman Roskam, forget about it. He has stretched the definition of religious freedom like an infinite rubber band so women in desperate need will go without.
There is more, but in the interest of brevity, these five tidbits of life under Roskam governance will suffice for now. However, the Congressman can call on me anytime for additional support in creating an informed electorate of new constituents. I'm here to help.
posted by Walt Zlotow at 7:55 AM
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