I'm going to beg for recommendations on this and I'm going to pimp the heck out of this diary. John Shimkus' opponent is woefully underfunded and outmanned. No one expected him to win, possibly still don't.
For as much as the Republicans want it to be, the Mark Foley issue simply is not about politics. It's about protecting our families. If John Shimkus and Denny Hastert couldn't protect 16-year-olds from a pedophile among their own Republican ranks, then how on earth can we trust them to protect us from our enemies, foreign and domestic???
And, as we know, we can't rely on the media to tell the truth. The Illinois media are horribly inadequate on the reporting of the Mark Foley issue. Both Speaker Denny Hastert (IL-14) and Rep. John Shimkus (IL-19, Congressman overseeing the Page Program) are getting off practically scot-free in their home state by the local media.
We have to tell the truth ourselves.
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