Posted on 12/19/2007 5:04:15 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Chris Lauzen is just the combination of youth, experience, leadership and talent that we need to make an outstanding replacement for Denny Hastert as Congressman from the 14th District.
He has served as state senator from Aurora for 15 years. He knows how the legislative system works.
He is a graduate of Duke University. He has an MBA from Harvard. He is a CPA and had his own accounting firm for 14 years. He reduced property taxes on VFW and American Legion posts by 85 percent. He was the only senator to speak out against and vote "no" on the two-thirds tuition discounts to sons of illegal immigrants.
He started an "Illinois Pork Busters" club in the Senate that seeks to cut $5 million in waste from the state budget. He was a lead co-sponsor of the 50-year solution to the $20 billion unfunded liability problem in the five state wide pension plans.
He is a ranking Republican on the Revenue Committee. He has helped create a business climate in Illinois where the private sector can maintain and create more jobs paying higher wages.
He more than doubled the state funding for public education in his senate district over the past 15 years.
He sponsored, and got passed into state law, the largest employment tax decrease in 15 years which kept over $250 million of excess unemployment insurance premiums in the Illinois economy.
Illinois is the 46th worst state in the country for a doctor to be a malpractice defendant in. The State Trail Lawyers Association controls the Democratic Party and they have maintained this very bad lobbyist situation that is driving doctors out of Illinois because of high malpractice insurance rates in the state. Lauzen has fought very aggressively against this control.
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Chris Lauzen sounds pretty good to me.
I agree with this editorial. Lauzen would be a much-needed voice for sanity in this country.
*BUMP for Lauzen*
Lauzen is a good man - too bad I can’t vote for him.
I was in Denny’s district until the last census redistricting when I was put into Henry Hyde’s district. Roskam is the new congressman who was elected to Hyde’s old seat, and so far Peter has stuck to conservative principals.
Send money to Lauzen - dims are after that seat.
what about oberweis?
Thanks for the PING.
I’m neutral in the primary. Either Oberweis or Lauzen would rack up at least an 80% ACU rating. Geneva Mayor Burns dropped out of the race after Hastert endorsed Oberweis. The Obie campaign is working to get the endorsement of the Geneva Mayor. Strange though. If Oberweis is so against amnesty then he would not seek a Burns endorsement. Burns supported McCain’s amnesty plan.
THe IL-14 is a reliable GOP seat more so than the IL-06. I wouldn’t worry about. The Dems are gunning for Roskam again. Roaskam’s opponent is a blonde Iraqi Veteran who worked for Blago.
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