<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Duckworth in the Senate would support the Obama-Clinton pro-war/pro-Wall Street agenda.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Trump has criticized those neocon/neoliberal policies.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Would Kirk do the same? —CGE</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 28, 2016, at 10:35 AM, AlterNet <<a href="mailto:replies@alternet.org" class="">replies@alternet.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The following sponsored email was sent to you by AlterNet on behalf of Tammy Duckworth for Senate: </span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class=""><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.alternet.org/images/bg-icons_2x_copy.png" alt="" width="276" height="64" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" class=""></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Dear Friend,</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.alternet.org/images/KIRK_250_X250.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="250" style="float: right; margin: 10px;" class="">Republican Senator Mark Kirk has pledged that he “certainly” would support Donald Trump as the Republican nominee — an increasingly likely scenario.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Trump’s recent comment that women should be punished if they have abortions was horrific and misogynistic, and yet Senator Kirk has no problem supporting his candidacy. A Donald Trump presidency should be unthinkable to all of us. A Trump presidency backed by a Republican Senate is even more frightening.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Tammy Duckworth is running for Senate in Illinois to defeat Senator Kirk, the incumbent Republican candidate.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/70463?t=1&akid=14203.214292.wewBVn" class=""><strong class="">Add your name to help Tammy Duckworth defeat incumbent Republican and Trump ally, Senator Mark Kirk. It’s time to turn the Senate blue.</strong></a><strong class=""></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">POLITICO has called Senator Kirk “The most endangered Republican in the country.” This race is Democrats' best chance in the nation to turn a Republican Senate seat blue in November.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">It’s not surprising that Senator Kirk is in danger of losing his seat. He has a long record of offending his constituents, particularly women and communities of color, which fits neatly into the Trump mold.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Senator Kirk has called a fellow senator a “bro with no ho”. He called the Paycheck Fairness Act “the most sexist legislation you can have," and has repeatedly voted against equal pay bills. He disgracefully said that people “drive faster" through African American communities. Senator Kirk’s many Trump-like comments are unacceptable.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Working Americans need a Democratic majority in the Senate and a leader like Tammy Duckworth who will advocate for them.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/70463?t=2&akid=14203.214292.wewBVn" class=""><strong class="">We can't allow Illinois to be represented in the U.S. Senate by a Trump clone like Republican Senator Mark Kirk. Add your name if you agree.</strong></a></p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Thank you for helping Tammy take back the Democratic Senate majority,</p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""> Team Duckworth</p><div style="margin: 1em 0em; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; 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