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Blog, News: 10th District Primary Race Featured in Article

December 2, 2011 – 1:40 pm

“Whoever wins the primary has a better chance of beating [current Congressman Bob] Dold,” Lauren Beth Gash, chair of the Tenth Dems, was quoted in an article about the 10th Congressional primary race in the recent cover story of The Chicago Jewish News. There is no one candidate at this point who appeals more to Jewish voters in the district, she added in the article. “There is no question that a candidate in this district will benefit, in my opinion, from a pro-Israel stance.”

While the article is primarily focused on Brad Schneider and Ilya Sheyman, it also mentions three other candidates who have announced their intention to run for the seat: Vivek Bavda, Aloys Rutagwibira, and John Tree. As for Schneider and Sheyman, both “have very strong position papers on Israel,” Gash is quoted in the article.

You can read the article here.

 

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Blog, Featured: Bob Dold Votes His Pocketbook, Not Ours

April 5, 2011 – 3:40 pm

Robert Dold told us he’d be a leader, and maybe he’s right. Not even our prior congressman would have had the chutzpah to do what Robert Dold did last week. Please join us and help us replace Robert Dold with a member of Congress who will fight for our pocketbooks, not his.

The United State Senate unanimously passed a measure ensuring that members of Congress are not eligible to get paid during a government shut down. As you may know, Congress has been gridlocked since Republicans took control of the House, and a government shut down, which would mean that federal employees don’t get paid and millions of Americans lose essential benefits, is possible.

But last Friday, instead of passing an identical measure to the Senate that would be on track to become law, Dold stuck with a partisan spending resolution that has no chance of passing and is likely unconstitutional. Read More »

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News: Dold Confirms Worst Fears With Vote on Health Care

January 20, 2011 – 9:36 am

Yesterday, Robert Dold confirmed our worst fears and proved that he represents the special interests, not our interests. Yesterday, Robert Dold proved that he’s a follower, not a leader. Yesterday, Robert Dold proved that the Republican party line is his line. Yesterday, Robert Dold voted to repeal health care reform.

No one claims that the healthcare reform legislation passed last year is perfect, but consider the alternative. We can’t go back to “business as usual” policies that denied children with pre-existing conditions or young adults looking for work in a challenging economy access to basic care. We can’t take critical prescription drug coverage away from seniors, and we cannot allow for job-creating small business tax credits to suddenly disappear. Yet that’s exactly what Robert Dold—who received $34,850 from the insurance industry–voted for.

For Illinois’s 10th Congressional District, repealing health insurance reform could:

  • Allow insurance companies to deny coverage to 114,000 to 290,000 individuals, including 9,000 to 41,000 children, with pre-existing conditions.
  • Rescind consumer protections for 466,000 individuals who have health insurance through their employer or the market for private insurance.
  • Eliminate health care tax credits for up to 16,000 small businesses and 91,000 families.
  • Increase prescription drug costs for 9,500 seniors who hit the Part D drug “donut hole” and deny new preventive care benefits to 97,000 seniors.
  • Increase the costs of early retiree coverage for up to 9,700 early retirees.
  • Eliminate new health care coverage options for 1,700 uninsured young adults.
  • Increase the number of people without health insurance by 12,000 individuals.
  • Increase the costs to hospitals of providing uncompensated care by $30 million annually.

Source: The House Energy and Commerce Committee

According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, repealing health insurance reform legislation will add $240 billion to the deficit. So much for fiscal conservatism. So much for representing our best interests. So much for Robert Dold.

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Blog: Dold Votes to Increase National Debt by $1 Trillion

January 19, 2011 – 9:30 pm

It is official now. Bob Dold voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. This repeal would have increased health care costs for millions of Americans, would have caused many families to lose coverage, and would have increased the national debt by over $1 trillion.

Of course, it is interesting that Dold is against the benefits of health insurance reform for hardworking middle class families, but he is on board with taking those same benefits for himself.

[Since the post was written, Dold has announced that he is not going to accept the healthcare plan to which he's entitled as a member of Congress.]

Here according a House Committee on Energy and Finance are some of the sobering numbers that tell the story of the impact of a repeal JUST IN THE 10TH DISTRICT:

* Allowing insurance companies to deny coverage to 114,000 to 290,000 individuals, including 9,000 to 41,000 children, with pre-existing conditions.

* Rescinding consumer protections for 466,000 individuals who have health insurance through their employer or the market for private insurance.

* Eliminating health care tax credits for up to 16,000 small businesses and 91,000 families.

* Increasing prescription drug costs for 9,500 seniors who hit the Part D drug “donut hole” and denying new preventive care benefits to 97,000 seniors.

* Increasing the costs of early retiree coverage for up to 9,700 early retirees.

* Eliminating new health care coverage options for 1,700 uninsured young adults.

* Increasing the number of people without health insurance by 12,000 individuals.

* Increasing the costs to hospitals of providing uncompensated care by $30 million annually.

Again, this is all just for the 10th Congressional District in Illinois.

This grandstanding vote did nothing constructive to move the debate forward regarding fixing the healthcare system in the United States. If you’re like me, you want to continue to work toward making the system the best that it can be.

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Blog, Featured: Our Own Truth Squad

December 7, 2010 – 7:28 pm

The disappointing outcome of the November 2 midterm election makes it more imperative than ever that we keep a close eye on the votes cast by our representatives in Congress. Republican candidates Bob Dold and Mark Kirk won their races largely by convincing moderate Democrat and Independent voters of their intention to represent their values in the House and Senate. But, as always, the proof will be in the pudding—or, in this case, the voting record.

As the Obama administration attempts to implement an ambitious agenda to revive the American economy, restore fiscal sanity, and implement health insurance and financial services reforms, it will need support from both sides of the aisle. The votes cast by newly elected Congressman Bob Dold, Senator Mark Kirk, and long-time Senator Dick Durbin (who long ago proved his commitment to policies that benefit the American public) will help set our nation’s course for years to come.

This is why we’re committed to scrutinizing the statements and actions of our representatives in Congress.

Read more in the Tenth Dems newsletter.

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