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Hultgren is not good for America

I am a 14th district constituent of Rep. Randy Hultgren and I live in Oswego, IL. His recent voting record and series of Tea Party press releases shows he is no longer good for residents and businesses in the 14th ... and he is not good for America. There are recent comments from a DePaul Political Science Professor about  Hultgren being "safe" in the next election cycle. Such comments deserve further analysis and research versus some cheesy pundit like newsbite for a Trib reporter on deadline. I suggest she does a followup article for more balance and gets some quotes from constituent voters in the 14th. Randy Hultgren and Ted Cruz .... are they getting big bucks from some of the largest Right Wing Republican PACs? They are certainly following same script. On a USA macro level the Trib reported: "The effort by Hultgren and other conservatives to block Obamacare appeared to have a political cost. A recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll showed a positive approval rating of 39 percent for the Democratic Party, 24 percent for the Republican Party and 21 PERCENT FOR THE TEA PARTY." I would contend a middle of the road and pragmatic Republican could and will defeat the extreme right and hard core Tea Party candidate, Hultgren. "There are just those in the public who don't want anyone to stray towards the middle," IL Rep. Dan Lipinski said. "They just want them to hold a hard line, and that's not good for America." I encourage voters to vote for a candidate who is good for America any day over someone with the political posturing of Hultgen who think more about doing good for their extremist Political Party. 

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