My husband and I are tired of receiving expensive mailing from multimillionaires like Bill Foster! Today the postman brought yet another to add to the stack we’ve already received. In the letter, the guy states a pretty good platform.

However, much of it appears to be taken from that of union carpenter John Laesch, who courageously ran for Congress in 2006 against the then-powerful Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, and managed to garner 40 percent of the vote.

This time, with Hastert out of the race, Foster decides to invest some of his fortune in running versus Laesch in the Democratic primary. Well, I don’t think the people of the 14th District can be bought that easily.

Foster brags that his assistance to Patrick Murphy enabled the captain to become “the first and only Iraq war veteran to win a seat in Congress.” If having vets in Congress is so important to Foster, why, then, is he so pouring a fortune into defeating Laesch, who is himself a veteran of the first Gulf War?

No multimillionaire by any means, John Laesch is indeed a “man of the people” who knows our needs and will work for OUR interests in Washington. He has long advocated ending the war in Iraq, achieving strength through diplomacy and redirecting our nation’s resources into good-paying jobs and health care, along with a fair trade policy.

The cover of a particularly irritating mailer from Foster pictures a huge bow tie on Congress and a portrait of [former Senator] Paul Simon on the back.

Now I knew Paul Simon, and Bill Foster is no Paul Simon!


Cecile Meyer
DeKalb resident

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