[Peace-discuss] Chicago Tribune: David Green "not our kind of candidate" - exactly!

[C. G. Estabrook]

[David has stepped outside the limits of allowable debate. Good for him.]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-congress-endorsements-edit-0302-20140302,0,3553535.story

Tribune endorsements for the U.S. House

...in the 13th Congressional District ... Former Madison County chief judge Ann Callis sticks to safe talking points, occasionally name-checking Durbin. Her answers to our survey are carefully scripted, heavy on promises to protect seniors and middle-class families without explaining what she'd actually do. She would not agree to be interviewed by the Tribune...

Our pick is George Gollin, [who] ... made headlines in 2008 for helping to expose and shut down diploma mills across the country...

The long-shot candidate is social policy analyst David Green of Champaign. He's a committed leftist who says the federal government should spend $1 trillion a year to create "a living wage job for everyone who wants one," and we might as well stop right there. He's not our kind of candidate. But we give him credit for the scope of his knowledge and for his unflinching defense of his positions. Voters would do well to demand that of all their candidates...

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