<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div>The following letters have been mailed to my opponents in the Democratic Party primary for U.S. Congress, IL-13:</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">January 27, 2014</font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">George Gollin<br> 813 W. University Ave.<br> Champaign, IL 61820</font></div><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"><br></font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Dear Professor Gollin:</font></div><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000"
face="Calibri" size="3"><br></font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">I agree with your call for “a series of town-hall forums around the district over the next eight weeks before the election.” </font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">As you may know, I recently (12/06/13) published a letter in the </font><a href="http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/2013-12-06/candidate-debates-boost-our-democracy.html"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri" size="3" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">News-Gazette</font></a><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> which stated:</font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0.5in;"><i><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"
size="3">As a candidate for Congress in the March elections, I welcome the News-Gazette editors' call for public debates in each major party in Illinois’ 13th District.</font></i></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0.5in;"><i><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Debates will highlight the real differences between me and my opponents in the Democratic primary. Voters want to know how their representatives in Congress will vote - not just that they're nice people. It's necessary to move beyond talking points and appeals to sentimentality. </font></i></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0.5in;"><i><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Debates—especially if televised, recorded, fairly reported upon, and widely distributed—will allow all candidates to operate on a level media playing field with candidates who are,
for whatever reason, more generously funded by themselves, other individuals, and corporate supporters.</font></i></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0.5in;"><i><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Open, frequent, and lengthy political debates are admired in our political tradition of a century and a half ago - the era of the Lincoln-Douglas debates - but largely abandoned since.</font></i></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0.5in;"><i><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Citizens have a right to be informed on candidates’ perspectives - and indeed an obligation to inform themselves before entering the polling booth. Similarly, media have an obligation to report on candidates’ substantive views, rather than focusing on polling and campaign contributions - which some candidates hope will dissuade voters
from opposing them.</font></i></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0.5in;"><i><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">I look forward to respectful debates with my opponents. In this enormous district, I call for such debates to be sponsored, scheduled, coordinated, and publicized well in advance by media outlets and citizens’ organizations, for the benefit of both citizens and the candidates themselves.</font></i></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">I would only ask that in your future calls for debate, you make it clear that there are three candidates for U.S. Congress in the Democratic Party primary in IL-13, and that only one of them has so far not committed to proposed debates.</font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt
0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Best regards,</font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">David Green</font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">January 27, 2014</font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt
0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Ann Callis <br> 517 Chapman Street </font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Edwardsville, IL 62025</font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Dear Judge Callis:</font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">In a letter to the editor published on December 6, 2013, I called for “open, frequent, and lengthy debates” in the Democratic Party primary for U.S. Congress in IL-13.</font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">George Gollin has reiterated that call in a recent open letter to you. Unfortunately, he was remiss in not referring to my previously and publicly stated support for such debates.</font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">I look forward to your participation in such informative occasions.</font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Best regards,</font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><div style="margin: 3pt 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">David Green</font></div></div></div></body></html>