Author: Kevin Gaither
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Illinois Secure Choice Stopgap for Lack of Rural Leadership
Republicans Rodney Davis and Mary Miller will never be able to vote YES on what our district, our seniors and people living with disabilities deserve and need. Their partisan politics just won’t let them do the right thing.
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Immigration: European Union Learns What America Never Could
Europe is finally figuring out what Americans forgot 50 years ago. Refugees, migrants, and immigrants are good for the economy, especially during a labor shortage. Countries are even waiving visa requirements. The European Union may have learned something from watching how America has never directly tackled its own border and broken immigration systems.
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Rodney Davis: Embodiment of Establishment Elitism
I doubt it’ll be that easy to ignore the real challenges and frustrations that voters have in every single community in our district, which is exactly what Rep. Davis is doing by huddling in private luncheons and wineries in hushed isolation from the people he answers to and seeks to represent.
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Not Part of the Game
In my travels this petition cycle, the conversations had a far more serious and at times darker hue. Many of my closest friends have similar and deepening reservations regarding the Democratic Party and its intentions regarding rural Illinois.
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Miller, Trump’s Affection for Putin is Misplaced
It’s stunning that now, while out of office, Trump seeks to not only weaken the current President, but mislead on his own record and fortitude.
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Rep. Robin Kelly Inspires Quincy
Whenever I have heard Rep. Kelly speak on the House floor, she spoke directly to both my heart and my head. I knew instinctively that when afforded the opportunity to meet her, she would live up to this image I had long been developing about her—that she was both down to earth and simultaneously uplifting…
