McHenry County Blog

A press rele3ase from Joe Walsh:

Rep. Walsh: Illinois Is Still Hurting

Holds job fair in Schaumburg

Some of the employer tables at Joe Walsh’s Schaumburg Job Fair.

Schaumburg – Yesterday Congressman Joe Walsh (IL-8) hosted another successful job fair in Schaumburg, which brought over 500 jobseekers and 43 employers together.

This is the third job fair Walsh has held since coming to office.

Congressman Joe Walsh listens to a job seeker.

“Illinois is still hurting, and the success of these job fairs show how desperately Illinoisans want to get back to work,” Walsh said.

The state’s unemployment rate has hovered above 8% for over a year and roughly half a million Illinoisans remain unemployed.

Congressman Joe Walsh speaks at his Schaumburg Job Fair.

The purpose of the job fairs are to put these unemployed workers with Illinois employers who can provide good-paying, local jobs.

Walsh, who chairs the House Small Business Committee’s Subcommittee on Economic Growth and Capital Access, recently held a hearing in Washington that delved into crippling federal tax policies burdening small businesses.

Some of the Schaumburg Job Fair exhibits were in the hall.

Representatives in Illinois testified that the Death Tax, which must be paid when family businesses pass on to one another after a death, limit the amount of money they can put into creating more jobs needed by Illinoisans.

“President Obama and his liberal allies think over regulation, higher taxes like the Death Tax, and more spending will get Americans back to work – they are dead wrong. Putting those needing jobs directly in touch with those who can provide them like we did at today’s job fair, does. ”

Walsh’s job fair in Schaumburg featured a number of Illinois employers, including

• Northrop Grumman,
• Carmax,
• Pace,
• Abbott Laboratories,
• Cardinal Health,
• GCG Financial
• among others.

Walsh will host another job fair on July 23rd with Representatives

• Bob Dold (IL-10),
• Peter Roskam (IL-6), and
• Randy Hultgren (IL-14).

A view of Joe Walsh and the audience from a Lake Villa Town Hall Meeting.

A press release from Congressman Joe Walsh:

MEDIA ADVISORY: Rep. Walsh to Hold Town Hall Meeting

Fox Lake, IL – Congressman Joe Walsh (IL-8) today announced that he is hosting a town hall meeting this Wednesday, December 21st, in the district.

“I was sent to Washington to represent the people of the 8th District of Illinois, and it’s critical that I spend as much time as possible back home to hear what they have to say” Walsh said.

“Since I have been in Congress, I have held numerous town halls in the district. Hearing directly from my constituents helps me accomplish my goal of putting the power back where it belongs: in the hands of the people.”

WHO: This event is open to the public

 WHAT:  Town Hall Meeting

 WHEN: Wednesday, December 21, 2011,  7:00pm- 8:30pm CST

 WHERE:  Fox and Hound Restaurant
1416 N. Roselle Rd.
Schaumburg, IL 60195

What you see below is the invitation to the Thursday night forum on jobs that Congressman Joe Walsh is holding in Schaumburg.

The event will consist of

• 6:00 p.m. CDT – viewing of the President’s address
• 7:00 p.m. CDT – discussion

It will be held at the Prairie Center For the Arts (in the Lecture Hall), 201 Schaumburg Court (off of E. Schaumburg Road), Schaumburg, IL.

Here’s the email:

The Chicago Tribune's front page story on the Emerald Ash Borer.

Last night I wrote that I hadn’t seen Wayne White, the Master Arborist who has been treating my ash tree for the Emerald Ash Borer since 2008.

He’s usually in Crystal Lake at the end of the first week of June, but with the late spring he hasn’t come yet.

I called him at 877-SAVE-ASH (877-728-274) to make sure he hadn’t already been in McHenry County and about the front page Chicago Tribune article.

White told me he was in Northern Illinois and that he’d be here in the next two weeks.

I told him the Tribune story was so, so pessimistic.

Tree-killing pest eludes rising battle to squash it

That’s the headline.

The subhead?

Even newest weapon,
parasitic wasps, could
lose its sting as beetle
munches across cities

White is passionate about saving ash trees.  I liken his emotional involvement to Johnny Appleseed of the early 1800′s.

He treated some trees in St. Charles this year.  As he drove to his clients, dead ash trees lined the street.  His were green.

That’s what northern Illinois will look like soon, he explained.

The Tribune article focuses on Oobius wasps imported from China stopping the ash borer invasion.  Three hundred were released in Chicago and Evanston last year.

Evanston arborist Paul D’Agostino tells the Tribune, “We have not seen any results.  We can’t stop it.”

Such pessimism.

So, an experimental approach isn’t working.

But a proven method is.

And it’s cost-beneficial.

The Daily Herald has written about that aspect.  Just last week.

635 ash trees will be treated at a cost of $27,000 this year.  Piggy-backing on the village contract with White’s Emerald TreeCare, LLC, is the Roselle Park District.  That’s an additional 220 or so trees.

Figure out the cost per year.

$42.50 is what I get.

White tells me it will take 5-7 years for all the untreated trees to die.

So, let me apply the cost-benefit analysis that I learned while a baby Budget Examiner at the United States Bureau of the Budget.

Wayne White sprayed the roots of the ash tree sitting on our property line about five weeks ago. He'll be back for the second treatment of the year within the next two weeks.

About $300 a tree under the contract cut by Roselle with White.  He tells me he is treating trees on private property in Roselle for the same price.  (The pricing is based on size of the tree.)

Removal cost is estimated to be about $1,000 per tree.  More to replace the dead ash with a much smaller tree.

$300 for treatment versus over $1,000 for the chainsaw and replacement approach.

One does not need a master’s degree in public administration to figure out which approach makes sense.

Roselle officials consider the ash trees part of the village’s infrastructure.   And, I would assume they think more shade is better than less shade.  More oxygen-producing leaves preferable to fewer.

In Carol Stream, village officials are cutting down dead and dying ash trees and replacing them.  Crystal Lake’s St. Aubin Nursery on Route 176 is supplying 2,000 replacement trees.

Carol Stream plans to spend $2.25 million on the effort.

Elmhurst is chopping down ash trees that are not even infected.

Compare the treated ash trees with those denuded by the Emerald Ash Borer. The live trees are at the Oakland County International Airport serving Detriot.

Go figure.  One would think a town named after the last tree species to pretty much disappear might have a different approach.

And, strangely, Elmhurst officials think the ash trees can be replaced over a 20-year period.  In seven or so years, they will all be dead, so the village board thinks people will allow dead trees all over town for thirteen years.

Yeah. Right.

The Tribune article reports that the infestation has spread to Deerfield, Gurnee, Hinsdale, Joliet, Lake Zurich, Rolling Meadows and “at least 16 other communities.”

Will they follow the example of Roselle or Carol Stream?

Downers Grove is another town using White’s treatment.

But these villages, the ones that have chosen the treatment approach over the knee-jerk chainsaw massacre approach, are not mentioned in the Tribune article.

Other municipalities mentioned in the article were Highland Park, Oak Park, Orland Park and Schaumburg.

Larry Snow

“While Democrats say Teachers ‘Have Kept Their Part of the Deal?’“

is the title of an April 5, 2011, article by former Huntley School District 158 Board member Larry Snow.  (The quote was in the Chicago Tribune Marcy 31, 2011.  It is from Executive Director Dick Ingram of Teachers’ Retirement System.)

The article was published in “The Champion” with this teaser:

“82,981 of 132,502 Illinois Teachers Pay Nothing or Little into Their Pensions“

That’s 63% of all teachers in Illinois.

The State Journal-Register is reporting that State Rep. Kevin McCarthy (D-Orland Park) is promoting a bill where state and local governments would all pay six percent of payroll toward employee pensions.

In a revealing sentence in reporter Chris Wetterich’s article, he writes,

“What’s unclear is how much more employees themselves would have to pay.“

Because no one has done the research except, I believe, the Illinois Education Association and Snow, how much extra teachers would have to pay if their so-called contribution rate was raised from 9.4% to 13.77% is a really good question.

While not covering every school district in Illinois, Snow did research the teachers’ contracts for all of the large school districts (by law all are supposed to be on the internet) in order to find out how much teachers pay in order to get a “full 75 percent pension after working only 27 years.” He points out, “Most adults work for 27 years before they turn age 50.”

As way of background, Snow notes that teachers are not in the Social Security System and, therefore, are not forced to pay Social Security taxes.

“Ordinary workers get hit with a 6.2 percent deduction for Social Security,” Snow writes. “It’s a deduction they have to pay federal and state income taxes on.

“Democrats gave teachers a huge loophole of not paying income taxes on any of their pension deductions” he continues. “This enormous no-tax handout to teachers amounts to billions of dollars each year.”

Snow’s research leads him to this conclusion:

“Over 51,000 of the total 132,502 teachers in Illinois contribute nothing from their K-12 paychecks into their pensions. Illinois law says it is to be 9.4 percent.

“About an additional 32,000 teachers pay little into their pensions. It is 1.81 percent to be precise for these 31,956 teachers.“

How many teachers pay not a dime toward their retirement?

51,025 teachers in 186 school districts pay nothing for retirement benefits.

They “don’t pay a penny into the 9.4 percent called out by Illinois law.

“There are a total of 868 districts in Illinois.

“The pay-zero teachers listed are 39 percent of all teachers in Illinois,” Snow reveals.

No agency in state government seems to keep track of this information.

Not the Downstate Teachers Retirement Fund, which boldly and incorrectly claims,

“Active TRS members are required to contribute 9.4 percent of their creditable earnings each year…”

The State Board of Education doesn’t keep track either.

My guess is that only the Illinois Education Association has a matrix showing what school districts have given what benefits in contract negotiations.

Snow discovered this about Lockport:

“…on page 14 of the Lockport Township HS 205 teachers contract it reads:

1. The Board will pay the current level of retirement contribution to the Teachers Retirement System of Illinois.”
2. It is expressly understood that figures appearing on this salary schedule include a sum equal to the current level of TRS contribution of the base salary of each Teacher which is, in fact, payable to the Teachers’ Retirement System on the Teacher’s behalf.”

“The ISBE report shows this board paying nothing. A Democrat bureaucracy doesn’t check the teachers contracts to see if what is reported, matches what’s in writing.”

And, if legislation is passed requiring 4.37 percentage points more, how long do you think it will take Lockport taxpayers to pick up the difference?

Given that local teachers’ unions pretty much control school boards wherever they are elected (read everywhere but Chicago), my guess is will be on the top of the collective bargaining list.

Do you wonder if Rep. McCarthy knows that?

Is his proposal just a setting up local taxpayers for an even bigger fall?

Five years from now will 39% of teachers still be paying nothing for their pensions?

Even better for teachers is that this pension payment ups their pension payments.

Take a look at the chart below.  Chances are your school district is on it.

Chart of Pension Contributions by 82,981 District Teachers of 132,502 Total Illinois K-12 Teachers

Name of District	No. of Teachers	Percent of Pension Contributed by Teachers
Thornton Twp 205	428	Zero
Proviso 209	281	Zero
Waukegan 60	1,098	Zero
Morton 201	455	Zero
Kankakee 111	348	Zero
Joliet 204	340	Zero
Round Lake 116	387	Zero
Rockford	1,843	Zero
Decatur 61	454	Zero
Crete Monee	340	Zero
Danville 118	382	Zero
Valley View 365	1,068	Zero
Aurora West 129	706	Zero
East Peoria 309	69	Zero
Galesburg	281	Zero
Bremen 228	313	Zero
Freeport	317	Zero
Leyden 212	219	Zero
Elgin U-46	2,332	Zero
Rock Island	388	Zero
Mattoon	225	Zero
Collinsville	394	Zero
Massac 1	143	Zero
Sterling	219	Zero
Belvidere	531	Zero
Quincy	436	Zero
Dixon	179	Zero
West Chicago	248	Zero
Cook County 130	289	Zero
Cicero 99	738	Zero
Joliet 86	617	Zero
Harvey 152	163	Zero
Crystal Lake 155	412	Zero
Crystal Lake 47	564	Zero
Wheeling 21	489	Zero
Champaign 4	717	Zero
United CUSD 304	68	Zero
Riverdale 100	76	Zero
Reed Custer 255	114	Zero
Wilmington 209U	84	Zero
United Township 30	90	Zero
Summit Hill 161	213	Zero
Plainfield	1,695	Zero
Schiller Park 81	98	Zero
Dolton 149	176	Zero
Township 211 Palatine	799	Zero
Ball Chatham 5	248	Zero
Taylorville 3	152	Zero
Williamsville 15	81	Zero
Harrisburg 3	130	Zero
Belleville 201	281	Zero
Dupo 196	76	Zero
O’Fallon 203	145	Zero
O’Fallon 90	207	Zero
Rochester 3A	142	Zero
Pekin 108	248	Zero
Morton 709	175	Zero
New Lenox 122	287	Zero
Frankfort 157	158	Zero
Marion 2	219	Zero
Carterville 5	110	Zero
Kinnikinnick 131	122	Zero
Tolono 7	116	Zero
Mahomet-Seymour 3	161	Zero
Champaign 4	717	Zero
Urbana	346	Zero
Charleston 1	180	Zero
Park Ridge 64	319	Zero
Evanston 202	222	Zero
Maine HSD 207	508	Zero
Arlington Heights 214	753	Zero
Niles 219	350	Zero
Berkeley 87	165	Zero
Berwyn South	263	Zero
Lyons 204	239	Zero
Lemont 113	144	Zero
Palatine 15	713	Zero
Schaumburg 54	1,003	Zero
Oak Lawn 123	203	Zero
Oak Lawn 229	114	Zero
CHSD 230 Orland Park	519	Zero
Argo 217	111	Zero
Homewood 233	174	Zero
Genoa 424	137	Zero
Sycamore 427	231	Zero
Dekalb 428	362	Zero
Lombard 44	216	Zero
Downers Grove 58	277	Zero
Hinsdale 86	296	Zero
Elmhurst 205	538	Zero
Naperville 203	1,063	Zero
Effingham 40	176	Zero
Canton Union 66	175	Zero
Morris 54	61	Zero
Morris 101	50	Zero
Coal City 1	138	Zero
Jersey 100	164	Zero
Central CUSD 301	224	Zero
Kaneland 302	275	Zero
St. Charles 303	880	Zero
Cahokia	298	0.4
Chicago Public Schools	23,219	2
Peoria 150	988	0.4
Springfield	1,105	0.4
Moline 40	461	0.4
Harvard	149	0.87
Dolton 148	236	1.4
Belleville 118	228	0.4
Pekin 303	125	0.4
Hononegah 207	118	0.4
Arlington Heights 59	444	3
Leyden 212	219	0.4
Summit 104	103	0.4
Palos 118	130	0.4
CHSD 219 Orland Park	519	0.4
Bensenville 2	145	1.4
DuPage 88	266	0.4
CHSD 94	122	0.9
CUSD 300	1,189	4.4
Hawthorn 73	253	1.4
Lake Forest 115	132	0.4
Wauconda 118	273	0.4
Johnsburg 12	158	0.4
Cary 26	192	4.9
Woodstock 200	385	1.4
Keeneyville 20	107	0.4
Winnebago 323	117	0.4
LaSalle-Peru Twp. 120	88	0.7
Prairie-Hills 144	187	0.4
Geneva 304	367	Zero
Herscher 2	126	Zero
Manteno 5	160	Zero
Bourbonnais 53	160	Zero
Bradley 61	103	Zero
Bradley Bourbonnais 307	114	Zero
Momence 1	88	Zero
Yorkville 115	329	Zero
Plano 88	154	Zero
Oswego 308	827	Zero
Streator 44	132	Zero
Ottawa 141	140	Zero
Ottawa 140	102	Zero
Glenview 34	343	Zero
Zion 6	177	Zero
Grayslake 46	266	Zero
Elmwood Park 401	181	Zero
Libertyville 70	159	Zero
North Shore 112	374	Zero
HSD 113 Highland Park	249	Zero
Grant 124	91	Zero
Zion-Benton 126	156	Zero
Evanston 65	547	Zero
Grayslake 127	187	Zero
Meridian 15	64	Zero
Mt. Zion 3	133	Zero
Edwardsville 7	480	Zero
Alton 11	467	Zero
Macomb 185	130	Zero
McHenry 15	282	Zero
McHenry 156	158	Zero
Nippersink 2	92	Zero
Columbia 4	111	Zero
Waterloo 5	166	Zero
Hillsboro 3	114	Zero
Meridian 223	113	Zero
Illinois Valley Central 321	139	Zero
Carbondale 165	76	Zero
Carbondale 95	105	Zero
Riverton 14	85	Zero
Auburn 10	90	Zero
Pawnee 11	47	Zero
Panhandle 2	35	Zero
Sullivan 300	75	Zero
Centralia 135	93	Zero
Litchfield 12	83	Zero
Harlem 122	505	Zero
Granite City 9	617	Zero
Princeton 115	86	Zero
Princeton 500	43	Zero
Bond County 2	120	Zero
Duquoin CUSD 300	101	Zero
Rocton 140	102	Zero
Rochelle Twp. HSD 212	71	Zero
Rochelle CCSD 231	131	Zero
Byron 226	127	Zero
Oregon 220	104	Zero
Farmington Central 265	85	Zero
Porta 202	75	Zero
River Bend 2	71	Zero
Red Bud 132	73	Zero
Sparta 140	105	Zero
Southwestern 9	107	Zero
Staunton 6	87	Zero
Gillespie 7	81	Zero
Hamilton County 10	83	Zero
Midwest Central 191	85	Zero
Tuscola 301	86	Zero
West Carroll 314	99	Zero
Oakwood 76	64	Zero
Hoopeston 11	94	Zero
Westville 2	80	Zero
Beardstown 15	98	Zero
El Paso-Gridley 11	99	Zero
Murphysboro 186	137	Zero
Monticello 25	111	Zero
Paris-Union 95	74	Zero
Mt. Vernon Twp. 210	80	Zero
Mt. Vernon 80	109	Zero
Jasper County 1	101	Zero
Steger 194	128	Zero
Calumet City 155	77	Zero
North Boone 200	116	Zero
CCSD 93 Carol Stream	294	Zero
East Maine SD 63	254	Zero
Lockport Township HS 205	205	Zero
Above Teachers Total	82,981

Joe Stefani being interviewed on Rockford TV in November, 2009.

Algonquin’s Joe Stefani, president and majority owner of the Rockford Foresters, is interested in bringing a amateur college baseball players who would not be paid. The NCAA won’t let college players be paid.

Stefani started a team in Rockford this year called the Rockford Foresters. It plays in a park district-owned stadium on the south side of town.

The JackHammers are not the only minor league team in the Chicago area in financial trouble. So are the Schaumburg Flyers.

“It doesn’t make money. (Teams) almost always lose money,” Stefani told the Chicago Tribune.

Stefani was elected to the Algonquin Library Board and serves as an elected Algonquin Township Republican Precinct Committeeman.

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Donna Kurtz

In view of the Joliet and Schaumburg minor league baseball teams being in trouble financially, it is even more curious that the Northwest Herald decided not to endorse Donna Kurtz for McHenry County Board. After all, she and Scott Summers, the Green Party candidate for State Treasurer and, then, the McHenry County College Board President, who deserve a lot of the credit for derailing the MCC baseball stadium. (It would have been financed with 25-year bonds for which the taxpayers would have been responsible, while minor league baseball teams last about five years on the average.)

This is from a participant in the Tuesday demonstration in front of 8th District Congresswoman Melissa Bean’s Schaumburg office near Woodfield. Photos of the event were also shared. I am pleased to publish both the letter and the pictures.

You can still contact Bean’s Washington office.  Phone 202-225-3711 or Fax 202-225-7830.

As an indication of the importance of the Congresswoman’s vote is my Google search for her name is that there were 28 references to her on the web at 1:31 this afternoon.

March 17, 2010

Dear Ms. Bean,

The corner where folks gathered near Congresswoman Melissa Bean's office March 16th.

I spent my day yesterday driving the hour from my home in Spring Grove to your office in Schaumburg to stand side by side with voters from your district.

A take-off on the show "American Idol." The Statue of Liberty is "An American Idol, Not 'Idle,'" says the message written on the white stripes.

We came hoping we could voice our opinions on the healthcare bill that is currently being forced upon the country despite the vast number of polls showing America neither wants nor appreciates having our Constitution destroyed for the whims of an administration filled with narcissists.
We understand that Mr. Obama, Ms Pelosi, and Mr. Reid feel that America has a population of numbskulls full of mush who have never had to balance a budget, have a connection with reality and believe that fairy tales do come true.

Oddly, after centuries of history to look back on, we somehow feel it is a pretty good indication of what to expect when governments become too large and no longer serve the people but try to dictate to them.

I guess, perhaps, some of us grew up at a time when our school system really taught history and did not rewrite, whitewash, delete or alter the truth.

We know that this bill will destroy our high quality healthcare system we now enjoy.

Corner with opponents facing camera and Bean supporters on the right.

We know the polls show that our doctors will drop out of their profession in numbers reaching 50 to 60%.  They currently have to deal with the government run Medicare and Medicaid and they know they will no longer be able to be productive and treat an additional 30 million people. It is an impossibility.

"Obamacare is unconstitutional malpractice," the sign says.

We know that history has shown us that government run programs NEVER function efficiently or on budget.

"HELL No!" the placard says.

Let’s face it; there is no incentive for them to do so.

With the push of a button they can vote for another tax increase and once again America looses.

Not only does this healthcare bill not affect the very ones who vote for it, but it appears to us that many in your party are under the impression that the tax laws do not apply to them.

They then turn and lecture and threaten those in our country who work hard and achieve through blood, sweat and tears a successful life independent of government handouts.

Our Founding Fathers and every soldier who gave their life to preserve this great country would not understand what you have done to it.

The Constitution is now just a document, yellowed with age and ignored by the current government.  You no longer feel the need to vote on bills for passage but “deem” them into law.

How perfect for it to be called “Slaughter.”

A view from the back of the corner where a lot of the action was.

We stood there, along with others thru out the country, begging to be heard.

We went up to your office to fill out your forms so you understand you MUST vote NO on this bill.

I heard the calls coming in as we sat there.

It was plain by your staff’s voices and responses your constituents are angry.

I asked the young man behind the counter if they really keep a tabulation of those calls. He told me they did enter them in on the computers.

I asked why you would not release the numbers of calls and the numbers for and against as Mr. Manzullo did.

He told me that it would be revealing private information about callers.

“How so?” I asked, you wouldn’t be giving out their names.

He stammered and said they received many calls about many issues. I heard that you reported to the Northwest Herald that your numbers were 2 to 1 in favor of the bill.

Oddly as I talked to the young man I looked at a yellow sticky pad next to his computer with the headers NO and YES and tabulations underneath.

Do you know the NO side had, at my best guess, 3 to 4 times the numbers of tabulations as the YES side?

When I called your office I was told you had not decided and were currently reading the bill.

You must be the ONLY person to have the bill because as far as the public is being told it is not even finished or released.

Are you REALLY undecided Ms Bean?

I have heard this from you before and you always seem to have decided to vote in line with Pelosi and her “Destroy America” agenda.

Do you really think you will be re-elected after saddling us with a bankrupt country and giving future generations no hope for a life free of extreme tax burdens?

Is this the future you want for your family?

I understand you will leave office with pensions and healthcare and perks none of us can have.

Does that seem reasonable?

Obama doesn’t want executives form private companies given payment for causing financial chaos yet he has no problem throwing Economics 101 out the window himself.

You may recognize some of the structures across the street.

As we stood out there, 500 strong, we stood next to a group of people who someone had bused in from Chicago.

I did not know your district included the city of Chicago!

I spoke to a number of them and quite frankly all I could conclude is that they are in favor of a socialist country where population is controlled and have no understanding that they themselves if they are lucky enough to still have a job are the ones paying for this boondoggle.

Exaggerations?

They cheered at the word “socialism.”

I was told we needed population control because there aren’t enough jobs, and many told me “government “ should pay for healthcare.

This is a very sad point in America’s history.

I didn’t think my heart could break anymore than it did after 911.

Looking back, at least America was united back then.

Flags were the order of the day.

You and your fellow Democrats have in very short time managed to rip the seams right out of our beautiful flag.

You will all go down in shame, if history is correctly written.

That is a very big “IF”.

God Bless America, she is in deep trouble,

Name  Withheld

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You can find more information about the rally here.

The web site of the Bradenton, Idaho, newspaper featured a photo of proponents of health care reform at Melissa Bean's Schaumburg office.

While Associated Press distributed a photo of the mainly out-of-district proponents of President Barack Obama’s health care reform, opponents are gearing up for another demonstration.

Word just in from Schaumburg Tea Party Coordinator Carrie Miller that opponents propose another rally this Saturday at noon at Congresswoman Melissa Bean’s office at 1701 E. Woodfield Road, Suite 200, Schaumburg, IL 60173.

If you can’t go, why not phone 847-517-2927 or Fax 847-517-2931. The phone probably won’t be answered over the weekend, but the Fax machine might be operational.

Incidentally, word from within Bean’s Schaumburg office is that calls are running 3-4 to one against the bill.

No wonder she is listed as undecided, even with the Daily Herald’s string of stories about Republican opponent Joe Walsh’s financial problems.

Schaumburg map showing where Melissa Bean's office at 1701 E. Woodfield Road is located near Woodfield Mall.

Maybe her polling is showing she is in more trouble than she has been previously.

Here’s the email’s appeal:

Many people who were not able to attend Tuesday’s rally would like to rally tomorrow.

Melissa Bean’s Office
Saturday, March 20th
12 PM

Bring your flags, signs, bullhorns!…Let your voices be heard!!!

Did you know:

• 

  If awakened Joyce Story goes to the demonstation, she will be late, because she is one of the organizers of the Patriots United Pro-Life Breakfast at D'Andrea's (southeast corner of Routes 14 &31) at 9 AM.

  Back room deals continue to be cut with Obama & Pelosi

• IRS expansion by 16,000 agents to track your HC insurance coverage
• Insurance premium increases up to 78%
• Job killing tax of $2,000 per employee on many companies
• Unfunded mandates
• Bill includes student loans…only the government can provide student loans!!!
• Walgreens will no longer accept new Medicaid customers as of April 16th
• Mayo clinic ….some of their doctors have informed their patients …should Obama Care pass they will no longer accept medicare patients
• Chicago area doctors have already begun to decline medicare patient coverage.
• 1-3 doctors will leave their practice
• 30 million people added….. no doctors to cover them….you will wait for months to get an appointment
• Prescription Drugs….how would you like to wait for those as well?

Here’s a video of the last demonstration and counter-demonstration:

More information about the rally can be found here.