Crane Watch

Is a riot, for the next few days I’ll be highlighting portions.

Today, Phil Crane in his own words from August of 2003.

“I did not realize unemployment was over 13% in Chicago. I’m not sure exactly what the explanation is for that.”

“The economy is good. By definition we only suffered a recession period of 3 months duration in the year 2001. That is the only time we suffered recession.”

Errr…two quarters of negative growth equals six months.

“Illinois gets back only 70 cents for every dollar sent by taxpayers to Washington DC. The 8th District only gets back 50 cents on the dollar.”

That’d be a hell of a campaign commercial….

“When I first came to congress I introduced legislation that would abolish any tax whatsoever on business.”

“The chairman of the Ways & Means Committee has a bill that provides tax relief to multi-national corporations. And I’m all for that.”

“I would happily volunteer to protect our borders against Mexican invasion than continue to spend a summer at Fort Leonard Hood.”
(Phil Crane on his military service)

“We have 7 million illegal immigrants in the US. And we haven’t been able to track them down.”

“In the year 2001, we were being taxed at the highest rate in the history of the country.”

To your right is an ad for Melissa Bean, Crane’s opponent this year. She is a very credible candidate. Go help her whether it be with manpower or money.