Will County Libertarian Examiner:
By: Steve Balich
Conservatives, Tea Partiers, and 912 organizations need to make the hard decision to coalesce around a conservative candidate to mount any type of challenge to the GOP’s liberal candidate, Mark Kirk. When there are numerous conservative candidates splitting the conservative vote, the liberal candidate will win. The only Conservative Republican candidate for Senate that has resources, message, and organization to mount a challenge to Mark Kirk is Patrick Hughes. He needs all Conservative votes to defeat Kirk in the GOP primary and to drive the Conservative message forward to Victory in the General Election. With four good conservatives in the race, we need to understand that the Conservative cause is much larger than any individual candidate.
The Will County Tea Party Alliance Candidates Forum probed the candidates on the three pillars of running a successful campaign, Message, Money, and Organization. Only Patrick Hughes has all three. The other Conservative Republican Senate candidates are polling less than 1% with no finances and no organizations. This makes it impossible for them to make any type of strong strategic surge with such a short time till the primary election. A vote for anyone other than Hughes is a vote for Mark Kirk. Because of the large number of undecided’s there is a definite opportunity for Hughes to overcome Kirk. When more information is given about Patrick Hughes’s stand on the issues, voters will support him. Most voters indicate they consider themselves Conservative. Americans, are fed up with liberal spending, extreme views on social issues, attacks on traditional America, support of foreign nations over the United States, and giving non-citizens the same rights as citizens, just to mention a few.
The media is starting to show some interest in the Illinois Senate race because of a recent Wall Street Journal Poll that has party favorable rankings as the following: Tea Party 41%, Democrats 35%, Republicans 28%. Patrick Hughes is the candidate that best represents that 41% and 28% here in Illinois. The Joliet Tea Party, Homer-Lockport Tea Party, Will County Tea Party Alliance, Rockford Tea Party, and Effingham Tea Party have all recently thrown their support behind the Hughes campaign. If we are to take back our State from corrupt, mega spending politicians with an Agenda the majority of people are against, we need to support Patrick Hughes.