Illinois
Related: About this forumNeed some information on Rep Aaron Shock for my sister.
She says she is 'confused' as to who to vote for.
I'm googling now but am a bit overwhelmed by the information overload.
Does anyone have a good website that isn't overly detailed or that sums up key votes?
I know she supports Democratic policies; she's just someone who doesn't pay attention to details
and is just sick of the Congressional mess, and so sick of the talk about it that she can't see the
blockages are all Republican.

ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)But, hey, Lipinski claims to be a D, yet I bet he bleeds redder than some tea partiers.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)Or was there redistricting.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)I should have been clearer.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)Guess there were no Democrats to run in this highly gerry-rigged district, so Miller switches to Dem just to get on the ballot.
Ugh.
mopinko
(72,517 posts)she shellacked him, but they wanted to prevent crossovers. so they stuff a guy in there.
i know the name, but remind me which district this is.
Snarkoleptic
(6,128 posts)pointing out he's a showboat pol who is chatty but hates to vote...
Meaning he's getting paid for not doing his job.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/aaron_schock/412314
Plus his main campaign donor is the virulently anti-labor Caterpillar Corp. #2 is Nuke plant operator Exelon Corp-
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cycle=Career&type=I&cid=N00029273&newMem=N
You can cherry-pick your sister's anti-issues and present them based on info. here-
http://votesmart.org/candidate/33428/aaron-schock
or here-
http://ballotpedia.org/Aaron_Schock
And I know this if controversial, but I HATE self-loathing hypocritical Repugs who consistently vote for all the standard "anti" stuff.
The rumors, which have swirled online for years, picked up steam earlier in the month, when journalist Itay Hod posted on Facebook that a friend of his saw his roommate in the shower with Schock. Hod didnt quite name the congressman, but the end of the message included a link to an americablog.com post titled The 7 gayest Aaron Shock Instagram posts of 2013. Schock quickly changed his Instagram account to private.
http://www.ibtimes.com/aaron-schock-gay-rumors-itay-hod-facebook-post-spurs-debate-outing-anti-gay-illinois-congressman

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