Letter to the Editor of the Pioneer Press:

Bob Dold has certainly hit the airwaves with his ads, and they certainly have me wondering. Describing himself as “the clear conservative choice” in the primary, now he says he is a “fiscal conservative” and “social moderate.”

I can only wonder what sort of “social moderate” has been endorsed by ultra right wing Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum and the anti-choice Illinois Federation for Right to Life PAC. The Eagle Forum’s mission is to promote right-wing conservative values across the nation, and on their website proudly proclaim that they oppose all reproductive choice, federally financed day care, and “all encroachments … that try to impose global taxes, gun registration, energy restrictions, feminist goals, or regulation on our use of oceans.”

Dold is supported by organizations who oppose all environmental regulation, gun control, any restrictions on BP’s drilling more unsafe wells, and would criminalize abortion to the point of sending rape victims and their doctors to jail. This is social extremism, not moderation.

Add to this, Dold’s comments that he would consider privatizing Social Security by giving it to Wall Street to manage (how’s your 401K doing?), added a link on his website to Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan’s radical “Roadmap” plan, which would cut Social Security benefits, and his desire to tell 32 million Americans who have only now been given access to health care, sorry, just kidding.

Bob Dold is completely wrong for the 10th District and decidedly wrong for America. I’ll be voting for Dan Seals.

>Dr. Laurence Dana Schiller, Deerfield