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by Angela Caputo
9:09am
Wed Oct 8, 2008
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Immigrants Could Sway Tight Illinois Congressional Races

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Immigrants may make up only a fraction of the electorate in the 10th and 11th congressional districts, but their influence in the increasingly tight races could have a larger-than-anticipated influence on Election Day. The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and ...

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by Josh Kalven
10:22am
Mon Oct 6, 2008

Halvorson Says She Would Have Opposed Both Bailout Bills

Economy

Democrat Debbie Halvorson appeared on Fox Chicago Sunday yesterday to discuss the 11th Congressional District race.  Not surprisingly, the discussion quickly turned to the two bailout bills considered by the House of Representatives last week and how she would have voted if a ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
11:51am
Fri Oct 3, 2008

Dispatch From A Different Debate

Martin Ozinga

Ninety minutes before the start of the vice presidential debate last night, a different political face-off took place at Illinois State University -- this one between the 11th District congressional candidates.  The event wasn't nearly as dramatic as what took place later in ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
12:23pm
Tue Sep 30, 2008

Number Of The Day: 284

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That's the number of votes missed by retiring GOP Rep. Jerry Weller during the current congressional session.

Yesterday, he was the only member of the House to miss the vote on the bailout bill.  Several local news outlets, including the Herald News and WJBC, ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
10:34am
Fri Sep 26, 2008
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Southtown Star Questions Ozinga's Debate Cancellation

Martin Ozinga

Today, the Southtown Star editorial board offered their thoughts on GOP congressional candidate Marty Ozinga's decision to drop out of the 11th District debate scheduled for yesterday.  The debate was sponsored by the Southland Chamber of Conference and was to be held at ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
10:15am
Thu Sep 25, 2008
2 comments

New Halvorson Ad Highlights Ozinga Health Care Comments

Health Care

Democratic congressional candidate Debbie Halvorson went on air with a new TV ad in the 11th District this week, which highlights Republican Marty Ozinga's comments about health care on a public access program in July.  As Progress Illinois first noted, Ozinga said: "...

PI Original
by Angela Caputo
1:14pm
Wed Sep 24, 2008
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Ozinga Bails On 11th District Debate

Debbie Halvorson

If Republican congressional candidate Marty Ozinga hoped to stay off the political hot seat by backing out of tomorrow's 11th District debate ... well, he didn't do a very good job of it.

Among those quick to take shots at Ozinga this morning
is his Democratic rival ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
10:40am
Fri Sep 19, 2008

Debating The Debates

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Lots of congressional debate news this week, so let's run through it all.

First, 11th District GOP candidate Marty Ozinga is complaining about the choice of Southtown Star columnist Kristen McQueary as the moderator of a September 25 debate between he and Democrat ...

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by Angela Caputo
9:38am
Tue Sep 16, 2008

Ozinga Supports Rail Deal, But With A Questionable Caveat

Martin Ozinga

GOP congressional candidate Marty Ozinga decided this week to stop tiptoeing
around a controversial proposal to sell the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern
(EJ&E) Railway to Canadian National Railway (CN) and state his support for the $300 million deal.

But as the ...