Ken Swanson, president of the Illinois Education Association, says Kirk hasn’t been consistent in his support.
His comments were echoed by representatives from Planned Parenthood and the Sierra Club. The Human Rights Campaign and League of Conservation Voters also say they endorsed Kirk when he ran for Congress but don’t support him now.
Click on the following for more details: Groups that backed Kirk endorsing Giannoulias - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star
Pat Quinn appears to be closing the gap with Republican challenger Bill Brady, while the state's U.S. Senate race remains a virtual tie, according to a new poll conducted for the Post-Dispatch and KMOV-TV (Channel 4).
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Democrat Alexi Giannoulias and Republican Mark Kirk are wounded rivals running neck and neck for the U.S. Senate seat in Illinois once held by President Barack Obama, a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows.
Click on the following for more details: Giannoulias, Kirk running neck and neck in Illinois Senate race, polls shows - Quad Cities Online
U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, was instead at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, campaign officials said
Kirk's opponent, Democrat Alexi Giannoulias, was among about a dozen candidates who took part in the closed-door meetings.
Working through Human Rights First, the group of 40 retired military leaders made a name for itself during the 2008 primary as members held private meetings with candidates to discuss prisoner treatment and interrogation policies. The group claims that as a direct result of their effort, President Obama signed executive orders ending torture and secret prisons and promising to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Daily Herald | Retired generals disappointed over Kirk's no-show at meeting
Just 24 hours after saying he likely would vote for it, U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Highland Park, voted against a state jobs bill pushed by the White House, sparking a bitter exchange in his race for the U.S. Senate.
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-- Republican Senate candidate Mark Kirk says he's inclined to vote for a $26 billion jobs bill that Democrats are pushing.
called the measure deficit neutral and said it would keep teachers in the classroom.
He says he still needs to read the fine print but expects to support the bill.
On Dec. 16, 2009, local [Freeport] business owner Steve Chesney submitted a $1,000 bid to purchase the Carnegie, after the library board voted to put the building up for auction. That bid was 25 times larger than the amount submitted by the city[of Freeport] to buy the Carnegie. City Council members later authorized matching the $1,000 bid, but a formal purchase of the property has not happened.
The taxpayers for the city and the library district have spent $26,000, [on legal fees] and we still don’t have a definitive answer on who owns the building. Who are the legal trustees?,”
City of Freeport believes that the title lawsuit is no longer necessary. We believe that recent interest shown in the property indicates that there is no hindrance to achieving the ultimate goal of putting the property back into productive reuse, while preserving the historical nature of the building
More embellishments.
most recent instance, the 50-year-old North Shore congressman told a boating magazine that he stood on his overturned sailboat and watched the sun set, when in fact he was rescued in midafternoon on June 15, 1976.
[in 1976] Wilmette Life, which cited a Coast Guard chief by name, said Kirk was wearing a ski belt flotation device around his waist and was found drifting about 500 yards from the boat. The story said Kirk was in the water for at least 30 minutes before the Coast Guard rescued him at 2:52 p.m.
Click on the following for more details: Kirk Coast Guard rescue: Conflicting details in 1976 lake rescue - chicagotribune.com
The poll of 500 likely Illinois voters, taken by phone last week, has Giannoulias (currently Illinois state treasurer) with a 40-39 percent lead over Kirk, currently a congressman. That's well within the poll's 4.5 percent margin for error, meaning it's a statistical tie.
