Sitting here reading a growing stack of news articles, Blog posts, and emails, it becomes obvious that Shimkus is hiding far more than is believed.
Shimkus and his lying has infected his staff as well. WPSD TV out of Paducah, attempted to locate Shimkus on Tuesday, Oct 3rd, and was told by his staff in Washington, that he was in the district giving a speech, when pressed for where this was taking place, the staffer said "we can't tell you that". Shimkus held his Help Desk Day in Vienna, Illinois Tuesday as well, WPSD showed up, but they were the only ones, the young lady there refused comment but said Shimkus was giving a talk at a school in the district. Come to find out, he wasn't in District at all he was still in Washington, hiding from reporters and voters alike. We want, no we demand answers to questions concerning the alleged cover up of the Foley Scandal, I guess you would have to call this the Shimkus Scandal.
Another wrote about Shimkus voting with the big telecommunications companies to end net neutrality and the campaign contributions he received from those special interests hoping to make more money by gaining control of which websites work more quickly than others. Clearly, he has a bad habit of voting in favor of corporate special interests over the interests of the public.
John Shimkus approves of the slaughter of horses for human consumption, is breaking his term limit pledge, voted to impeach Clinton but didn't think much of a Congressman making sexual advances to under-age pages, and still thinks Bush didn't make any mistakes in Iraq. I would imagine that right now Shimkus is thanking the Illinois State Legislature for drawing him a district that votes more than 60% Republican. We'll see if party loyalty outweighs common sense in district 19 this year.
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