A Democrat, Bill Foster, a "soft-spoken scientist," won in a special election to the House of Representatives yesterday. He defeated Republican Jim Oberweis, a dairy big businessman. The District that Foster will now represent is Illinois's 14th, including the cities of Aurora and Elgin.
The 14th was vacated by Dennis Hastert, former Speaker of the House, who will be remembered for his indifference to the monkeyshines of Mark Foley, the pedophile who virtually publicly hit on pages while purportedly championing their interests on a Congressional committee.
The "Fighting Fourteenth," as Stephen Colbert would call it, is a bulwark of good old well-heeled Midwestern conservatism. Foster's victory was characterized as an "upset." I hope that cloistered conservatives everywhere are at last getting upset with the business as usual that we have seen for the last seven years.
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Looking forward to the continued in-fighting of the two loser demos and further weakening of the candidate that is nominated. How about that demo Spitzer??? Takes me back to "Slick Willie" and "Monica". Slime at its best. Your candidate will lose in November and your socialist party will lose seats.
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