It's hard to believe that in just 8 short days, our country will have the momentous opportunity to vote for change. But these 8 short days are nothing compared to the 8 long years of failed leadership our country has endured.
Voters here in the 10th district are energized for change and already turning out in record numbers. I wanted to share with you a video my campaign made highlighting the grassroots fire that is spreading throughout the district.
We can't bring the change we need just by electing Barack Obama, we need to elect a Congress that will fight for a new direction for our country. Unfortunately, my opponent, Mark Kirk, has demonstrated that he has no interest in bringing this change. He has voted nearly 90% of the time with Republican leadership in Congress, voting for the most wasteful budgets in our nation's history and a misguided war in Iraq, while opposing equal pay for women and cracking down on predatory lenders.
To distract voters from this record of failure in Washington, he has relied increasingly on misleading and desperate attacks on me.
To fight back, I will need all the help I can get. If you live in or near the 10th district, please sign up to volunteer for my campaign.
If you can't, please consider contributing anything you can to my campaign. Every dollar you contribute will help spread our message of change and ensure that on November 5th, we wake up not only with a President Obama, but also with a Congress that will fight to turn around the disastrous policies of the past eight years.