Another Two Years of John Shimkus
Not a good thing for the people of Illinois -- and the rest of the United States.
Be afraid.
Be very afraid.
Labels: IL-19, Illinois, John Shimkus
18th Century Enlightenment reason, knowledge, & education for the 21st Century that encourages overcoming misinformation & social injustice & providing responsible leadership to service the public trust in the U.S. & it's territories (Qui tacet consentire videtur - "Whoever seems silent, consents")
Not a good thing for the people of Illinois -- and the rest of the United States.
Be afraid.
Be very afraid.
Labels: IL-19, Illinois, John Shimkus
U.S. House candidate Tim Bagwell, PhD (D-Olney), created a four-page tabloid filled with various veracious victuals to wet the appetites of IL-19 voters. Many copies have already appeared at homes throughout Central and So. IL.
If someone has missed it or lives outside of IL-19, here is the tabloid in it's entirety. It contains many wonderful tidbits that John Shimkus fans either choose to ignore or remain unearthly uninformed.
It is a wonderful introductory to the real John Shimkus. There is always more to add to the amphibological assistant supply officer.
Enjoy. A good read.
Labels: IL-19, Tim Bagwell
10. Federal user taxes on a gallon of gas is appropriate. It finances and maintains the vast American interstate automobile highway system. In addition, Democrats know that trying to reduce profit figures to a per-gallon average for gasoline is incredibly misinformed & typically right-wing obscuration. When gas prices are high, oil companies pay single-digit taxes. They have not paid 'high' taxes in 10 yrs. when a gallon of gas was $1.29.
9. A Democratic Majority does a better job of spending taxpayer money than a Republican Majority.
8. It is easier for people to use their Freedom of Speech to counteract the negative impact of the erroneously rewritten history lessons continually streaming from Lonesome Roads Beck and the malodorous bile of Boss Hog Limbaugh.
7. Democrats value Second Amendment rights and are ready to lock and load at any time to protect their sacrosanct First Amendment rights.
6. People are stewards of the Earth who should protect it for future generations by reducing their impact of global warming as much as possible.
5. Democrats protect women's reproductive sovereignty and their right to pay equity.
4. Democrats know that illegal aliens do not have legal rights to "free" federally-funded health care, education, and Social Security benefits.
3. Democratic legislators refuse to allow corporate CEOs to profit from destroying the financial livelihoods of their employees and retirees. They believe that corporations need to break even and provide for their employees and communities.
2. Liberal judges uphold the Constitution for the people not corporations. Right-wing kooks are incapable of remembering that the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights and subsequent Amendments have never explicitly mentioned corporations.
1. The Democrat mentality is so firmly planted in reality that they could never accept the suffocating uber-conservative point of view of I'm OK, you're OK as long as everyone belongs to the right race, religion, ethnicity, & sexual orientation (additional caveats could appear without warning).
Conservatives are more than welcome to keep the Right-Wing Bill of Lies.
Democrats will keep all of their Constitutional Rights.
When John Shimkus (R-Collinsville) walked out on President Obama during his health care speech, many civilians thought it was nothing more than shear rudeness. Others knew better: A commissioned officer is an officer for life. Therefore, it was a public display of Conduct Unbecoming.
This is a pattern of behavior for Mr. Shimkus. It appears that ethics and laws are not applicable to him:
Labels: IL-19, John Shimkus, SALF, Tim Bagwell
U.S. House candidate Tim Bagwell, PhD (D-Olney), sent Rita Mullins, the former mayor of Palatine IL, and the president of a New Hampshire military subcontractor a letter requesting details regarding an alleged nationwide first aid training partnership between the controversial nonprofit Save-A-Life Foundation (SALF) and the U.S. National Guard.
The National Guard has no records for any training associated with SALF. No surprises there. Their reports to the Internal Revenue Service state the following:
$590,000 to train 170 emergency medical service providers as instructors at 33 military bases in 27 states AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MI, MS, MO, NJ, NM, NC, OK, OR, PR, SC, TX, WV, WI, WY to teach their 7,000 at-risk high school age students life supporting first aid training and provide all training equipment, materials, (and) testing supplies.John Shimkus (R-Collinsville) has already washed his hands of the matter with deafening silence. The oversight of federal funds in excess of $3 million is not his concern. He has decided that he needs to question implementation data on the health care law of Texas. Although he represents IL-19, it is obviously less important than other states.
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Save-A-Life identified Dare Mighty Things Inc., a Portsmouth, New Hampshire consulting firm, as the source of the funding and claims to have provided the training in partnership with the National Guard’s Youth ChalleNGe, a program intended to benefit young people at-risk. In 2007 Dare Mighty Things was awarded a 10-year, $50 million National Guard contract to oversee Youth ChalleNGe training programs.
Labels: IL-19, John Shimkus, SALF, Tim Bagwell
U.S. House candidate Tim Bagwell, PhD (D-Olney), addressed the audience at the Richland County Democratic Committee's pork-loin dinner and silent auction at Olney Veterans of Foreign Wars. It provided the opportunity to remind IL-19 voters about some lesser-known facts regarding their ever-obsequious John Shimkus (R-Collinsville):
Labels: IL-19, John Boehner, John Shimkus, SALF, Tim Bagwell
U.S. House candidate Tim Bagwell, PhD (D-Olney), sent Daniel R. Levinson, Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, a letter requesting an official investigation into the activities of the Save-A-Life Foundation. Three weeks before the election Dr. Bagwell is already working to protect the interest of the people of Central and So. IL. It is a job that John Shimkus (R-Collinsville) (i.e., Congressman Taxpayer Zero) refuses to undertake as a friend of corporate titans.
Taxpayers deserve government oversight to determine if over $3 million awarded to by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was spent properly.
SALF is currently under investigation by the Illinois Attorney General’s Charitable Trusts Bureau (CTB). Recent correspondence from the CTB indicates that SALF recently filed a zeroed-out annual financial report that failed to account for hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets as well as other discrepancies, one of which appears to be SALF’s failure to file a tax return last year with the Internal Revenue Service.The state investigation is only concerned with Illinois-related issues. A separate federal-level investigation would focus on the $3+ million in federal tax dollars that the CDC awarded to SALF.
UPDATE: The Hill's Healthcare Blog publishes an online article on Dr. Bagwell's request to HHS.
Labels: IL-19, John Shimkus, SALF, Tim Bagwell
US House candidate Tim Bagwell, PhD, sent a letter of concern to Rep. John Shimkus (IL-19) regarding $3,335,578 in federal funds he steered to the Save-A-Life Foundation (SALF), a shady nonprofit, according to a Democratic Party press release. The Chicago area 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization had a charter stating that it would provide first aid training to schoolchildren. Records from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) show continued funding through at least mid-year 2007.
Since 2006, SALF has been the subject of numerous media exposes around the country, one of which reported a series of misleading claims and deceptive credentials that raise doubts about Save-A-Life's integrity, funding and training.
In his letter and at a press conference, Dr. Bagwell asked Rep. Shimkus two questions:
Congressman Shimkus has received your letter of inquiry. He supports the ongoing Illinois Attorney General’s investigation and believes that any criminal acts should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.He deflected responsibility without providing answers to either of the questions. Illinois Attorney General Madigan’s office protects IL tax dollars not the $3+ million in federal funds. With that, Rep. Shimkus has washed his hands of the issue and any federal oversight to adequately account for the taxpayer millions that SALF administrators spent.
Labels: Council for Citizens Against Government Waste, John Shimkus, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, SALF, Tim Bagwell