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| Important Issues: |
 | Stopping the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP)
GNEP is a program endorsed by the Bush administration and my opponent, Judy Biggert, to make the 13th Congressional District, and surrounding counties, a dumping ground for nuclear waste. The life threatening nuclear waste will originate from all over the world and be delivered to dump sites within our community.
I am opposed to this program that will make a few CEOs even more rich despite the unspeakable risk to our community. It's yet another example of the incumbent putting the interests of a small group of individuals with big money ahead of the health and safety of our community. This small group of individuals, who stand to profit billions of dollars, do not even live in the district and no dump sites are planned near the town where Ms. Biggert resides. Read more...
Supporting the First Amendment and Freedom of Speech
Jeff Zurawski and Sarah Hartfield are DuPage County peace activists who are being persecuted by Republican DuPage County State's Attorney Joe Birkett. If found guilty they are facing up to one year in jail in DuPage County simply for exercising their 1st amendment rights by holding a sign calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney and indicating our country is in distress by holding an American flag upside down. Birkett has also thrown in trumped up charges that Jeff and Sarah were throwing objects onto the interstate highway. These charges are baseless and as of today no witness or motorist has come forth claiming they saw anyone throwing any objects onto the interstate.
I'm very troubled by the possibility that trumped up charges may have been raised by local law enforcement to silence a citizen of the 13th district because they were exercising their constitutional right to voice their dissent. It's just another example of ever increasing authoritarian behavior by public officials in the US and unfortunately I'm not surprised that such an incident would occur in today's political climate created by the President and Congress, including my opponent, Judy Biggert, since her voting record is alarmingly supportive of an authoritarian state. Read more...
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| Why Vote For Me: |
| Steve is running for congress because of a deep concern that if "we the people" do not wrestle control of our government back from the corporate and big money interests, our children's generation will not be able to enjoy the same or better opportunities than our generation has enjoyed. Many of us are already seeing signs of this. US workers today, in 2007, make less, when adjusted for inflation, then they made when George W. Bush entered office in 2000, which is unprecedented since the great depression. US corporate profits are at an all-time high, as is the stock market, but US workers have been left behind. 6% more US citizens are in poverty since George W. Bush entered office, and at the same time huge tax cuts have been given to the wealthiest 1% of US citizens. George W. Bush has given $30,000 a year tax cuts to people making over a million dollars a year and a $6 a year tax cut for those making less than $50,000 a year. Since Ronald Reagan busted the Air Traffic Controllers union in the 1980s, union membership in the private sector has declined from 25% of workers to only 7% today. A declining percentage of union works in the US inevitably means a declining middle class, as we are already seeing. Under this President's Justice Department, companies like Walmart are allowed to illegally intimidate and even fire workers for attempting to form unions and the politicized US Justice Department refuses to prosecute.
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| Mail: | Committee To Elect Steve Alesch |
| | P.O. Box 383 |
| | Warrenville, IL 6055-0383
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I am running as a Green for US House of Representatives.