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TexasTowelie

(116,698 posts)
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 06:01 AM Sep 2018

Join Blue Beginning as it sends the Democratic troops into the collar counties

Some people in Chicago are dismissive toward folks in the outer burbs, writing them off as a bunch of squares in the boonies.

But from my perspective, people in the traditionally Republican collar counties of DuPage, McHenry, Kane, Lake, and Will are among the luckiest voters alive—'cause they get to take a meaningful stand against Trump in the coming November elections.

Oh, yes, Chicagoans may fume and fret and take to the street over the antics of the orange man in the White House. But folks outside of Cook County actually have the opportunity to be part of a "blue wave" that ousts enough congressional opportunists and rubber-stampers to take Congress back from the Republicans.

And let me tell you, the way Republican congressmen like Peter Roskam, Randy Hultgren, and (to a far lesser extent) Adam Kinzinger bow and scrape before Trump, man, it makes our mayor-worshiping aldermen look like profiles in courage.

Read more: https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2018/08/31/join-blue-beginning-as-it-sends-the-democratic-troops-into-the-collar-counties

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