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Melissa Bean has really bitten off the hand that feeds her on this one. The biggest group to fund her '04 bid to unseat Crane were DA UNIONS out to avenge Crane for all his ardent free tradiing. In addition to DA UNIONS outraged at her betrayal and out looking for a primary opponent, I found this little item posted online yesterday:

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow?bid=4&pid=8811

BLOG | Posted 07/28/2005 @ 10:29am
Punish the CAFTA 15

My name is Bill Scheurer, and I ran against Melissa Bean (one of the worst of the "CAFTA 15") in the 2004 primary, as a peace candidate. We want to run a third-party campaign in 2006, but it will take $15,000-20,000 just to get on the ballot. (Illinois is one of those states that require new parties to get 20x the number of signatures as the two established parties.)

Someone, please set up a coalition or clearinghouse to get support and life into those campaigns that will challenge these incumbents. Do not let this go away with a few angry comments posted on a blog!

Thank you,

Bill Scheurer, Editor The PeaceMajority Report

www.PeaceMajority.org
Posted by BILL SCHEURER 07/28/2005 @ 10:29pm

I don't see why she doesn't just come out in favor of parential notification or something if she'd like to "moderate" her record, since she could have voted against CAFTA and just used the "several conservative Republicans opposed it too" excuse.

Nice to see first termer Bean has managed to alienate just about EVERYONE in the first few monthes in office. Anyone wanna help Bean's '04 primary opponent slap her around in 2006 as a Nader-type spoiler?