8th congressional district Republican Party primary candidate Steven Greenberg has sent out a mailing to his potential constituents.
It’s not a “Happy New Year!” greeting like McHenry County State’s Attorney Lou Bianchi just mailed.
It’s one to increase his name identification and deliver some early blows to the woman he seeks to oppose this fall.
Prominently displayed on the inside of the mailing is the campaign’s web site: Steve4Us.com
The top inside heading reads,
for Congress, for Us
The rest is arranged under three smaller headlines:
WE MUST LOWER SPENDING
WE MUST LOWER TAXES
THE GREENBERG “NO PORK” PLEDGE
Eliminating pork and a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget are listed under the “Lower spending” headline.
Making the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent and eliminating the Alternative Minimum Tax and “Killing the Death Tax” are featured under “Lower taxes.”
I am particularly intrigued with Greenberg’s “no pork” pledge.
Will he follow the example of Oklahoma U.S. Senator Dr. Tom Colburn and make himself intensely unpopular by proposing amendments to eliminate pork or will he just not ask for any for the 8th congressional district?
Not that a freshman Republican in a Democratic Party-controlled U.S. House would get much pork anyway.
All of the pages of the mailing can be enlarged big enough to read by clicking on them.