At today's endorsement event at SEIU Illinois State Council headquarters, Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias and union president Tom Balanoff both called out GOP frontrunner Mark Kirk for missing this week's congressional vote to extend unemployment benefits.  Watch it:

As we noted, Kirk has previously voted for certain measures to extend jobless benefits while opposing others. In an article published late yesterday, the Tribune quoted Kirk spokesman Eric Elk saying that the congressman had been "unavoidably detained" but would have voted for the bill if present.