Edwin Eisendrath
Edwin Eisendrath
Edwin Eisendrath served as the alderman of the 43rd ward of Chicago, serving the Lincoln Park area. He attended Harvard University and received a MA from National Louis University. In October 1993, he resigned to become the administrator for the Region V office of the Department of Housing and Urban Developmentin Chicago, one of HUD's largest and busiest. He formerly served as Vice President of Academic Affairs for Kendall College but resigned the position in 2007. He sought the Democratic...
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I don't expect him to want to debate. He has a terrible record and no plan for the future.
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The State of Illinois has the fifth biggest economy in the country, but is 35th in growth. That is why I am running. We can and must do better. I know we don't have to be last!
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Embracing mediocrity is not the way to improve schools.
Disappointment and the idea that we could do so much better in this state.
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I think everybody now knows the things that I care passionately about. And that doesn't change. If I think those things are being addressed, then I'm open to that, but it is a moment and he and I haven't talk and I am not thinking about that.
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You can expect that between now and the end we are going all out.
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Mr. Blagojevich has been campaigning at taxpayer expense for months. Now he will have to rely on the state contractor and lobbyist contributions to pay for his efforts.
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This just echoes what I've heard all over the state. State employees just don't trust the governor. They don't trust him with their pensions, they don't trust him to hire competent managers, they don't trust him with the state budget.
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I think there's enough (time). I'm not worried about my campaign plan.
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Just yesterday he diverted another $1.1 billion from pensions to pay for his election-year budget. He continues to reward contributors and his lobbyist friends in ways that give Illinois a bad reputation and have attracted the investigations of the U.S. attorney. Every where I go, people say it's time for a change.
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He's cut college funding every year . . . and (then) in an election year, he promises $90 million he doesn't have.
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He can't mention ethics because he has failed to keep his promises.
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I have not bought one second of his being too busy being governor to be a candidate.
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He's employing the campaign strategy of carefully staged events and big ad buys paid for by special interests and no open debate.