DIXON – More than 700 area residents are calling on U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger and Democratic challenger Sara Dady to attend a community forum in Dixon next month.
Members of Action for a Better Tomorrow Sauk Valley, a political advocacy group, traveled to Kinzinger’s office in Ottawa Wednesday morning to drop off a letter inviting him to speak at a community forum at 6:30 p.m. July 30 at the Post House Community Center with Dady, a Rockford immigration attorney looking to unseat the Channahon Republican in the Nov. 6 election.
Along with the letter was a stack of papers with more than 700 signatures of constituents in the 16th Congressional District in favor of a minimum of four candidate forums between the two.
One of ABT’s main goals is to bring candidates to the area to answer constituents’ questions face-to-face, to help them decide what names to mark on the ballot, ABT member Sarah Bingaman said.
“We feel that there’s a great need for that,” Bingaman said. “We want to give local voters a chance to meet the candidates and base their vote on firsthand information to make an informed decision, and we’ve had great success so far.”
The handful of members were “cordially received” by staff at Kinzinger’s office, she said, and they specifically picked July 30 because it’s pegged as a district work day on the congressional calendar, meaning Kinzinger should be in the area.
The group plans to deliver the same letter and petition to Dady in Rockford.
The community forum will take place as long as at least one of the candidates shows up, Bingaman said.
The 16th District covers all of Lee, Ogle, Bureau, Boone, Grundy, Iroquois, LaSalle, Livingston, and Putnam counties, and parts of DeKalb, Ford, Stark, Will and Winnebago counties.
Above is from: http://www.saukvalley.com/2018/06/27/signs-of-support-for-a-candidate-forum/a5i4yga/
