Robert Abboud Hones Stump Speech – 1

It’s wasn’t a revival meeting, but I certainly heard echoes of the speeches of fiscally conservative Republicans from times past in 16th congressional district Democratic Party challenger Robert Abboud’s speech to local Democrats at the Farm Bureau Building last night.

He launched into the fiscal responsibility part of his talk by telling of reporters asking,

“Why are you running?”

I’m not sure this what he really tells them, but here’s what he said,

”Don’t you read your own newspapers?

“Don’t you watch your own newscasts?”

We’re “$9.2 trillion in debt. 80% is owned by foreign countries.”

He pointed out federal taxes are paid by individuals, merchants “down the street” and manufacturers.

“We don’t have any.”

Among his litany of reasons for running, he included health care and global climate change.

Much of the latter he attributed to corporate greed.

“Trust me. I know these guys because some of them are my clients.”

Abboud told of going to the bathroom during a public policy meeting in Barrington Hills, “a meeting a little smaller than this one.

“When I came out everyone was looking at me. They had elected me to run for village trustee.”

Now the Barrington Hills village president, Abboud recognize Woodstock Mayor Brian Sager as “a very good friend of mine.”

He told how his father “thought I was just out of my mind (for thinking about running for Congress)…People will say bad things about you.”

“I thought about that,” he continued, referring to the Declaration of Independence, especially its second paragraph.

The signers “could have said that same thing. They could get dead.

“I don’t have to worry about that…about people in red coats shooting at me

“Be sure you do not continue to suffer the (in)sufferable,” he paraphrased one sentence.

(The text reads, “…all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”)

After the

“Why are you running question?”

“What are you going to do?”

comes next.

And, although he didn’t say so, “How are you going to do it?” is surely another question asked.

Tomorrow: New means of communication with constituents, the need for a manufacturing revival and a financial pitch.

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Top photo and one on the left were taken while 16th congressional district Democratic Party candidate Robert Abboud, Barrington Hills Village President, was speaking. The bottom picture was taken after the speech. All may be enlarged by clicking on them.


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