An Important Message from a Fellow Southwest Sider
As a longtime Southwest Side Democrat and neighborhood advocate, I want to congratulate the News-Herald for it’s [stet] wisdom in endorsing the re-election bid of Congressman Daniel W. Lipinski (D-3rd).
I think it’s important to add a few observations to the ones made in the editorial.
The few cranks and chronic complainers among us can say what they want about how Congressman Lipinski first came to be the Democratic nominee way back in 2004; but the fact is that he stood before the voters for election in the fall of 2004, and the voters said “yes” to his candidacy. He responded to the vote of confidence by serving the district well – so much so that when he stood before everyone for re-election in 2006, he won a majority of votes handily.
So now it’s 2008, and Congressman Lipinski finds himself faced with several primary opponents – one of whom, Mark Pera is heavily supported by left-wing extremist political groups.
These groups and their millions of dollars are not from the southwest side or anywhere around here, but from places like San Francisco, Hollywood, New York City and Massachusetts. (But don’t believe me. Look it up and find out who is behind the Open Left radical organization and some of the other political hate groups that are funneling resources to defeat Congressman Lipinski.)
These aren’t your garden variety liberals. The people backing Mark Pera are radical left-wingers – people who, for example, have publicly criticized Ted Kennedy could possibly be more liberal.
The left-wing extremist groups trying to defeat Congressman Lipinski are political punks who snicker and sneer at Southwest Siders like us. They laugh at traditional values. They mock people who go to church. They dismiss senior citizens as irrelevant relics of a bygone era. They look down their educated noses at blue-collar men and women who work for a living. They bad-mouth police and other public safety employees – except when they need a cop of course. And they give the finger (figuratively and literally) to the men and women of the American military.
They think that regular folks like us, the residents of the Southwest Side, should no longer have a place in the Democratic Party – despite the fact that we were working, sweating, building and strengthening the Democratic Party while they were still crying in their cribs because their diapers were full.
But these extremists have a lot of money, and they are going all out to eliminate all Democrats who are not hardline left-wingers. They say they want to purge the Democratic Party of centrists and moderates like Congressman Lipinski and a handful of other congressmen across the nation.
So clearly, this is more than a re-election battle for Congressman Lipinski. This is a war for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party. A war that was started by left-wing extremists to kick folks like us out of our own party.
But one thing I can do is expose the shameful tactics and goals of the left-wing extremist punks trying to defeat Congressman Lipinksi; and I can strongly urge all my fellow Southwest Siders to go out and vote on Tuesday, February 5th for Congressman Daniel W. Lipinski.
Let’s get it done, and let’s show the punks how real Democrats can mobilize and make our voices heard.
Joe Kulys
Fellow Southwest Side Resident
Re-Elect Dan Lipinski Congressman
Paid for by Dan Lipinski for Congress
We can send a clear signal to corrupt, entrenched DC Democrats that we no longer have to suffer their abuses. But to do so we need to win races like this one and the Donna Edwards/Al Wynn primary next week.
