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Bianchi might well join forces with Steven Greenberg, who is challenging 8th congressional district Congresswoman Melissa Bean, and 16th district Congressman Don Manzullo, who is being challenged by Barrington Hills Village President Robert Abboud.
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In this fifth article about 16th congressional district Democratic Party candidate Robert Abboud's appearance Wednesday, January 16th, in Woodstock's Farm Bureau Building, McHenry County Blog reports on what he said about Iraq:"We're done.
"We've been done five years.
"Why did we go to Iraq?""Oil," shouted a chorus of Democrats.
"I'm going to give the President the benefit of the doubt," Abboud continued.
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Abboud then explained his family's involvement in the Armed Forces.His father spent three years in the Marines, his father-in-law 20 years in the Navy.
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"Bob will give you the answers…the whole answer."
"The party's really moving in the right direction," Cynor concluded.
= = = = =The photographs are of Robert Abboud.It the bottom one, you can see McHenry County Democratic Central Committee Chairman Thomas Cynor with Abboud after Abboud's speech.
Labels: Iraq War, McHenry County Democratic Central Committee, McHenry County Democrats, Robert Abboud, Thomas Cynor
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The featured speaker and only candidate present allowed to talk was Robert Abboud, the party's choice to challenge incumbent Republican Don Manzullo.
In today's article Abboud talks about health care.
He told the story of taking his golden retriever to a vet for a cut.The dog required eight stitches for which Abboud paid $175.
He compared that with going to the emergency room at Barrington's Good Shepherd Hospital to get eight stitches.Abboud said that cost $7,000.
He talked about how they open a kit, take out one item and throw the rest away and told of a humanitarian group that sends what they find in American hospital dumpsters to Africa.
Then, he took on the drug companies.
"You can't negotiate with the drug companies," he said, pointing to way the federal government buys prescription drugs.
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Labels: 16th Congressional District, Don Manzullo, Good Shepherd Hospital, Health Care, McHenry County Democratic Central Committee, McHenry County Democrats, Robert Abboud
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Wednesday, January 16th, the 16th congressional district Democratic Party candidate, Robert Abboud, spoke to the McHenry County Democratic Central Committee in Woodstock's Farm Bureau Building.
What's the country's environment and energy policy?Abboud asked.
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Abboud pointed out that which Americans invented the production of electricity from nuclear power, "we don't own (the patents).
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Labels: Don Manzullo, Global Warming, McHenry County Democratic Central Committee, McHenry County Democrats, Nuclear Power Plants, Robert Abboud
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Robert Abboud, the village president of Barrington Hills is the Democratic Party candidate for the 16th congressional district seat held since 1992 by Republican Don Manzullo.
In its first installment, McHenry County Blog covered his reason for running, plus how his pitch closely resembled those of fiscally conservative Republicans I have heard in the past.
Abboud spoke Wednesday in the McHenry County Farm Bureau Building to over fifty McHenry County Democrats.One of his topics was communication with constituents.
He laid out a new form of electronic communication that he intended to implement, if elected.
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Abboud suggested that there were probably experts on most of the subject matters considered by Congress in the 16th district.
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Abboud then criticized the lack of taxation of profits made overseas.
Tomorrow: Environmental and Energy Policy
= = = = =The pictures are of Robert Abboud.
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Labels: 16th Congressional District, Barrington Hills, Don Manzullo, Marti Swanson, McHenry County Democratic Central Committee, McHenry County Democrats, Robert Abboud
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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,
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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."
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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.
Labels: McHenry County Democratic Central Committee, McHenry County Democrats, Robert Abboud
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