Thursday, January 3, 2013
Highland Park senator comes back to work just under a year after suffering a stroke.
Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Highland Park) returned to work today as he climbed 237 steps to the entrance of the Senate side of the United States Capitol just under a year after suffering a major stroke. Assisted by Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Kirk walked slowly using a cane completing the ascent 10 minutes before the Vice President was scheduled to gavel the Senate into session for the 113th Congress. Biden was not worried about the timing. “You’ve got all day, pal,” the vice president said to Kirk at the bottom of the stairs. Biden was the first person to greet Kirk when he appeared at the bottom of the steps, giving him a hug. Next to hug his returning colleague at the bottom of the stairs was Sen. Richard Durbin (D-…
Friday, March 16, 2012
Democratic representative of Illinois' 9th Congressional District shows up at Romney campaign stop to protest.
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s stance on Planned Parenthood was questioned at his first campaign stop in Illinois, when U.S. Rep Jan Schakowsky showed up to protest his stance on Planned Parenthood. While Romney talked to supporters inside a Rosemont diner about jobs and the economy, Schakowsky stood outside with a group holding signs that read, “Keep Your Mitt(s) Off Birth Control.” Schakowsky said she was motivated to come out to protest because of Romney’s recent remarks on Planned Parenthood. “Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that,” he told supporters at a campaign stop in Missouri on Wednesday, saying the reduction would be part of his plan to reduce federal debt. Later, Romney told Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-…
Presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor makes Friday morning campaign stop in Rosemont.
Shaking hands and smiling for cell phone cameras at a Rosemont diner Friday morning, presidential candidate Mitt Romney promised supporters that he would put Americans back to work. “The No. 1 issue in America is the strength of our economy,” he said. “And on that issue, this president’s a lightweight. Now it’s not because he’s not smart, it’s because he never worked in the free economy. He’s never had a job in the free economy. It’s hard to create a job if you’ve never had one.” Romney made his first campaign stop in Illinois at Pancakes Eggcetera shortly after 7 a.m. Friday. While U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky led a protest against Romney's stance on Planned Parenthood in front of the diner, Romney greeted fans in the restaurant's parking …
CK
5:32 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2013
To IMHO...would you have pushed for Franklin Roosevelt to resign? He smoked, drank martinis (sometimes it is said with his misstresses) and had servants spend hours dressing him everyday. His "service" to America included running for president even when he knewhe was deathly ill. Did IMHO carry on about why STroger didn't resign until the politics was arranged to protect his kid? more ›