Posted on 12/15/2005 9:39:15 PM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
My representative in Congress is Jan Schakowsky of Evanston. As I've noted before, she's part of the far-left wing of the Democratic party. Proof? Well, in January, she called for an immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.
Thursday, elections took place in there. Turnout was very high, and even in the Sunni areas, the level of violence was low.
Of course, Jan being a liberal means she is for "the people," yet she has not issued a statement on these elections. Quite ironic.
Especially since one of the 15 polling places in the US for Iraqi expatriates (and one of just three in the Midwest) was located in Schakowsky's 9th District.
Pictured below is the Caldo-Assyrian Community Center, located just south of Golf Road in Skokie. From Monday through Thursday, Iraqis living abroad traveled there to exercise their recently gained right to vote, something that would've been impossible if Saddam Hussein was still in power.
Visiting Jan's web site this evening, there is no mention that a small part of history was being made in the heart of her district.
Not even local pride, I guess, can encourage Jan to speak out if it makes President Bush and the Republican Party look good.
When is her husband's sentencing?
Leftist Pol’s Hubby Pleads Guilty to Fraud-Jan Schakowsky has long been a star moonbat ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474805/posts
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Jan Schakowsky at FR
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=schakowsky
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Congresswoman's husband pleads guilty to two felonies
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-08-31-congresswoman-husband_x.htm?csp=34
CHICAGO (AP) — The husband of an Illinois congresswoman pleaded guilty Wednesday to tax violations and bank fraud for writing rubber checks and failing to collect withholding tax from an employee.
Robert Creamer, a political consultant married to four-term U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, could face four years in prison on the two felony counts when he is sentenced Dec. 21.
"In my heart, I know that these mistakes do not define or diminish this good man, or the good work that he has done over the last 40 years or that he will do in the future," Schakowsky, D-Ill., said after her husband's court hearing.
Schakowsky has not been accused of any wrongdoing
Creamer, 58, a prominent Chicago political consultant, was accused of swindling nine financial institutions of at least $2.3 million while he ran a public interest group in the 1990s.
Oh, it's right there in the excerpt from the USA Today (8/31/05) article excerpt.
sentencing Dec. 21st, the day before Lynne Stewart's in NY.
Hey, that's next week!
Yes it is.
I hope Lynne doesn't get another sentencing delay, she's already had a couple.
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