Join Nuns on the Bus and Sr. Simone
Campbell in Fox Lake
The Nuns on the Bus, a group of Roman Catholic sisters, will visit Fox Lake this afternoon to voice their opposition to the Republican budget which is said to transform Medicare into a voucher program and redistribute income from the poor to the ultra-wealthy. Tea Party Rep. Joe Walsh (R-McHenry) and Rep. Robert Dold (R-Kenilworth) voted for the budget.
Sr. Simone Campbell recently told Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report about the group’s mission to “stand with people in need and to be witnesses for economic justice.” The nuns will arrive at 1:00 pm today at 50 East Grand Ave., Fox Lake, which is in the 10th Congressional District—though Bob Dold’s house ain’t.
The Nuns on the Bus, a group of Roman Catholic sisters, will visit Fox Lake this afternoon to voice their opposition to the Republican budget which is said to transform Medicare into a voucher program and redistribute income from the poor to the ultra-wealthy. Tea Party Rep. Joe Walsh (R-McHenry) and Rep. Robert Dold (R-Kenilworth) voted for the budget.
Sr. Simone Campbell recently told Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report about the group’s mission to “stand with people in need and to be witnesses for economic justice.” The nuns will arrive at 1:00 pm today at 50 East Grand Ave., Fox Lake, which is in the 10th Congressional District—though Bob Dold’s house ain’t.
“We cannot stand by silently when the U.S. Congress considers further enriching
the wealthiest Americans at the expense of struggling, impoverished families,”
said a spokesperson for the nuns on their website. The tour, which began in
Iowa, will also make stops in Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, before
concluding next week in Washington, DC.
In March, Rep. Dold (IL-10) joined Rep. Walsh (IL-08), Rep. Bachmann (MN-06), and 225 other Republicans to pass the GOP’s fiscal year 2013 budget resolution (H. Con. Res. 112), authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). If the budget passes, 1,525,000 fewer Illinois seniors and children will receive health care. No House Democrats voted for the resolution.
Rep. Dold’s party-line vote was not a surprise to 10th District voters. In 2010, Robert Dold was endorsed by FreedomWorks, “the unofficial leader of the anti-Washington Tea Party movement” run by Dick Armey. He was also endorsed in his primary by The Eagle Forum and profiled by The Conservative Magazine of Illinois, which added that Dold “asked that he not be rated highly by our voter guide [indicating that he wishes to be viewed as moderate.]”
Mitt Romney has promised to use the Ryan budget resolution as a framework for his own budgets if he is elected in November. We must re-elect President Obama and replace Rep. Dold with Brad Schneider, small business owner and Democratic candidate for Congress who shares our district’s values about fairness.
Read more about Rep. Dold’s vote for the immoral Ryan budget resolution here.
In March, Rep. Dold (IL-10) joined Rep. Walsh (IL-08), Rep. Bachmann (MN-06), and 225 other Republicans to pass the GOP’s fiscal year 2013 budget resolution (H. Con. Res. 112), authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). If the budget passes, 1,525,000 fewer Illinois seniors and children will receive health care. No House Democrats voted for the resolution.
Rep. Dold’s party-line vote was not a surprise to 10th District voters. In 2010, Robert Dold was endorsed by FreedomWorks, “the unofficial leader of the anti-Washington Tea Party movement” run by Dick Armey. He was also endorsed in his primary by The Eagle Forum and profiled by The Conservative Magazine of Illinois, which added that Dold “asked that he not be rated highly by our voter guide [indicating that he wishes to be viewed as moderate.]”
Mitt Romney has promised to use the Ryan budget resolution as a framework for his own budgets if he is elected in November. We must re-elect President Obama and replace Rep. Dold with Brad Schneider, small business owner and Democratic candidate for Congress who shares our district’s values about fairness.
Read more about Rep. Dold’s vote for the immoral Ryan budget resolution here.
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