:: IL-10

Illinois Individual Race: IL-10

Incumbent:	Mark Kirk (R)
	Mark Kirk has a lifetime AFL-CIO congressional voting record of voting wrong on working family issues 81 percent of the time.
Challenger(s):	Dan Seals (D)
	Go to Dan Seals’ campaign website.
	OpenSecrets: Campaign Finance Profile.

Endorsed Candidate: Dan Seals

DAN SEALS FIGHTS FOR WORKING FAMILIES

Supports Better Wages.
Dan Seals supports an increase in the minimum wage. (Seals press release, 8/1/06)

Opposes Privatizing Social Security.
Dan Seals opposes the risky plan to privatize Social Security and make our benefits less secure. (www.dansealsforcongress.com)

Makes Prescription Drugs Affordable for Seniors.
Dan Seals will work to reform the Medicare prescription drug program to protect seniors, not to benefit drug companies. (Daily Herald, 8/29/06)

MARK KIRK THREATENS WORKING FAMILIES

Mark Kirk has voted repeatedly against the interests of workers and their families, opposing an increase in the minimum wage, cutting funding for education programs, slashing student loans and supporting a prescription drug bill that benefits pharmaceutical companies over seniors. (Vote #360, 7/11/06; Vote #319, 6/27/06; Vote #313, 6/22/06; Vote #308, 6/22/06; Vote #365, 7/12/05; Vote #321, 10/17/05; Vote #320, 10/17/05; S. 1932, 12/19/05; Vote #669, 11/22/03)

VOTE Nov. 7

How you vote is a personal decision. Whatever you decide, please vote.

 

 

 

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