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Election Information
Results of PDA-endorsed Races
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Current Endorsed Candidate Campaigns
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Geoghegan, Tom (Congress, IL-05)Other Races of Interest
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PDA-Chicago and PDA-IL 05 voted overwhelmingly Monday, February 9, to endorse Tom Geoghegan (gaygun) for Congress. The special election to replace IL-05 Congressman, Rahm Emanuel, is March 3rd.
The main reason cited for the endorsement was Geoghegan's vision for the reform of the US economy. The other liberal Democrats in the race have suggested band-aid approaches, which would leave our basic economic structures unchanged. But Geoghegan expressed a progressive vision that would restore economic security to middle class working people.
Geoghegan anchors his campaign around basic changes that will directly benefit America's distressed middle class working people and students. They are:
1. Strengthen Social Security to resemble a pension system large enough to support basic retirement needs.
2. Provide a single-payer healthcare system, "everybody in, nobody out." By taking pensions and health care costs out of the private sector, Geoghegan argues, our manufacturing companies will be more competitive globally. A single-payer plan will enable most Americans to save more money over their working lives.
3. Give everyday Americans financial relief by enacting usury laws that reduce credit card rates, halting foreclosures and declaring an amnesty on student loans.
4. Stop blank-check bailouts to banks!
"This is a winnable race that will reset the direction of Obama's change agenda," said Lorin Klugman, co-state coordinator. Obama won the general election in large part because of the economic collapse. With Geoghegan, we have the perfect candidate. The well-off folks on the east side of the 5th Congressional District might not vote in a special election. Elsewhere though, retired folks, unemployed folks, folks whose family members are newly unemployed, and those just barely hanging on will all support Geoghegan.
Geoghegan's victory will not only replace the arch corporate Democrat (Emanuel) with a man David Sirota calls "one of the greatest progressives alive today", but it will also send a message to Obama that the people want REAL change. Let's get to work!
Shall PDA endorse Tom Geoghegan to replace Rahm Emanuel in Illinois' Fifth Congressional District? Vote in the poll on our blog (find it in the center column).
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