Illinois

DebJ

(7,699 posts) Wed Sep 24, 2014, 10:23 AM Sep 2014

Need 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.

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Need some information on Rep Aaron Shock for my sister. (Original Post) DebJ Sep 2014 OP

I wish for the same roadmap. Wish I could help ChairmanAgnostic Sep 2014 #1

Lipinski is the wrong district it looks like...3rd instead of 18th? DebJ Sep 2014 #2

No, i was making a comparison. ChairmanAgnostic Sep 2014 #4

Just found out his opponent is a DINO... Darryl Miller, a former Republican. DebJ Sep 2014 #3

they tried to do that to kelly westlund. mopinko Sep 2014 #5

18th n/t DebJ Sep 2014 #7

How about... Snarkoleptic Sep 2014 #6

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)

1. I wish for the same roadmap. Wish I could help

Reply to DebJ (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 10:46 AM

Sep 2014

But, hey, Lipinski claims to be a D, yet I bet he bleeds redder than some tea partiers.

DebJ

(7,699 posts)

2. Lipinski is the wrong district it looks like...3rd instead of 18th?

Reply to ChairmanAgnostic (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 11:00 AM

Sep 2014

Or was there redistricting.

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)

4. No, i was making a comparison.

Reply to DebJ (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 11:47 AM

Sep 2014

I should have been clearer.

DebJ

(7,699 posts)

3. Just found out his opponent is a DINO... Darryl Miller, a former Republican.

Reply to ChairmanAgnostic (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 11:10 AM

Sep 2014

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

(71,823 posts)

5. they tried to do that to kelly westlund.

Reply to DebJ (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 01:32 PM

Sep 2014

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.

DebJ

(7,699 posts)

7. 18th n/t

Reply to mopinko (Reply #5)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 11:30 PM

Sep 2014

Snarkoleptic

(6,027 posts)

6. How about...

Reply to DebJ (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 10:29 PM

Sep 2014

pointing out he's a showboat pol who is chatty but hates to vote...

From Jan 2009 to Sep 2014, Schock missed 220 of 4,416 roll call votes, which is 5.0%. This is worse than the median of 2.5% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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 that Aaron Schock, a young, handsome Republican congressman from Illinois who has a consistently anti-gay voting record, is gay himself has spurred debate over whether it’s appropriate to out the lawmaker.

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 didn’t 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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