Illinois
Related: About this forumListening to IL Rep. kinzunger (R) on Morning Joe this morning..
Don't know much about him, but he's talking Syria and sounding like a Trumper and a hawk... Anyone here know more?
shraby
(21,946 posts)They like a war that wastes other peoples kids and kills lots of civilians in the other country because wars are very profitable for certain segments of the economy.
murielm99
(31,436 posts)He is a shithead and a tea partier. He primaried a very conservative Congressman and beat him.
We had to pressure and ridicule him before he held a town hall. He got the League of Women voters to host it, and it was a sham. I asked him a question about agricultural trade with Mexico, since we farm in a very rural district. He answered about drugs coming over the border from Mexico. In other words, he did not answer the question.
I asked him about some key educational items he has voted against. He said that he could not be expected to remember every vote he has made. Who does he think he works for? Agriculture and education are important in this district.
He manspread. Yuck. He loomed over the audience with his armed crossed.
He talked about what he wanted to talk about. We were not allowed to follow up. It was very unfair. He has an opponent. I intend to write a lot of LTTEs about his conduct at that so-called town hall.
His every vote is pro-trump. He wants do do away with the ACA and calls it a failure. He wants grants to states instead. He is a fool and a charlatan. He does not know us here.
I don't know if his opponent can beat him. The blue wave might have to be twice as big in this district. The only thing that might hurt him is trump's demise or a total collapse of the agricultural sector.
I have called his office, sent post cards, protested, and you name it. Voting him out, a longshot, is the only thing left.
raising2moredems
(706 posts)the "I won't serve more than six terms" liar. Oh sorry, that is because manzullo thought he could get everything done in six terms. But like so many others, he's now a lobbyist. Kinzinger is a smarmy con man. His insincere claim to support the military is nauseating. He bailed out of the military, pure and simple. I am no big fan of John McCain but he actually served and paid a horrid price.
Murielm99 - did you happen to catch Jane Carroll's (who probably never worked a day in her life but has no issue collecting her "entitlement", aka SS) innuendo that Kinzinger is gay?
murielm99
(31,436 posts)If he is gay, I don't care.
raising2moredems
(706 posts)but in Jane Carroll's LTTE in the Rockford paper (supporting perennial candidate James Marter) over former tea party favorite kinzinger, she touted Marter as a married man. As well as Ives being a "handsome woman". The one thing on which I did agree with tea party patty on was being tired of seeing my rep in an airplane.
murielm99
(31,436 posts)When he loses his election, it will give him something to do.