Out of touch career politician Jeanne Ives seeks to smite Washington DC’s out of touch career politicians.

Jeanne Ives seeks to become my congressperson November 3. Tho I won’t vote for her, I did peruse her expensive, multi colored mailer just to see what she’s proposing for my Illinois 6th District’s 750,000 residents. Good grief, what a waste of donors’ dollars. We learn that out of touch career politician Ives is going to take on the out of touch career politicians in DC. How a person who has spent most of this century in the Wheaton City Council, the Illinois legislature, candidate for Illinois governor and now candidate for Congress can distinguish herself from other career politicians is a stretch. Besides, Ives knows that being a career politician is no different from being a career surgeon or career nuclear scientist. If one is a wise, noble leader then thank god that person devotes one’s life to public service.

Then there is the ‘out of touch’ part. When Illinois was inching toward marriage equality, Ives was calling same sex marriages “completely disordered”. Proponents were “trying to weasel their way into respectability so they can push their agenda down to the schools…and we can’t let that happen”. On racial matters, Ives is no better. Running for governor in 2018, she incurred the wrath of her GOP state chair Tim Schneider who called for Ives to take down a racist ad she used against incumbent governor Bruce Rauner.

Ives’ mantra on her mailer is SMASH THE STATUS QUO. That eerily recalls her presidential pick with his infamous DRAIN THE SWAMP. We still struggling to survive that delusional campaign pitch. One at a time, please.