“Fitzgerald opposed drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge throughout his tenure in the US Senate and broke with conservative colleagues. Fitzgerald also supported “reasonable” gun control, immigration reform and the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform legislation.”
This is just one of those things for me...there is not a nation in the world that would not take advantage of the resources we have in ANWR; the Alaskan Pipeline has been running at 50% capacity for years; I don’t care what the price of oil is at any given time; anybody that votes against it is out in my book.
To each their own.
I campaigned for the man and worked a few weeks as paid staff for him, to help defeat Carol Mosely- Braun. She was the first African American woman ever, to be elected to the US Senate, and the only incumbent to lose her job.
I know that Fitzgerald is responsible for nominating a US Attorney, that prosecuted back to back governors of Illinois, one from each major party, and they both went to federal prison. Think about that for a minute.
The former GOP Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, IL, 14th CD., just went to prison. He molested high school wrestlers while coaching. He was blackmailed and paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions of dollars to his blackmailer- one of the kids he molested. He got prosecuted for failing to report withdrawals of large sums of money to the IRS.
While Speaker, he and big time RINO, Congressman Ray LaHood, GOP, IL 18th CD., told Fitzgerald that they were going to primary his a$$, because Fitzgerald was his own man and voted his conscience while a US Senator, instead of bringing home the bacon for Illinois. Long story short, Fitzgerald decided to leave politics, and Obama eventually won the US Senate seat. For Ray LaHood’s chicanery, Obama made him his US Transportation Secretary, giving LaHood another pension check.
I doubt you know much about the integrity of Fitzgerald, or the level of corruption in Illinois politics, especially with regards to the Combine/Uniparty, and Cook County proper.
Fitzgerald made disappointing votes from my perspective... but the powers that be in IL, will never be able to fill his shoes.
If you can name a politician that has voted 100% lockstep with your views and get them in the VP slot- do it! Good luck with that one.
I stand by my pick.