Kathy Salvi: A Republican Trial Lawyer. An Oxymoron?
Revised on Thursday at 6:00 pm to add links to the partial transcripts of the May and January, 2005 shows with David McSweeney and to discussions of 8th CD race.
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Jeff Berkowitz: Now, we only have a few minutes left. So, with that, [please] answer that question that I asked.
Kathy Salvi: Ask me my position on tort reform.
Jeff Berkowitz: No, you don’t get to [frame your own questions]. The question to you is, “Do you support caps on non-economic damages?
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Next Week’s suburban edition of Public Affairs features Kathy Salvi, who is running in the 8th CD Republican Primary for the right to take on Cong. Melissa Bean [D-Barrington, 8th CD]. Kathy officially entered the race a few weeks ago but unofficially it was about three months ago. This was her first appearance on our show. There are a number of topics we didn’t cover, so we hope to have her back. For more about Kathy Salvi, see the feminine mystique and see her campaign site.
For more about the 8th CD race and one of Kathy’s primary competitors, David McSweeney, see here. McSweeney has been on the show three times. This reflects the fact that David McSweeney has been in the race, in one form or another, since January and has been quite willing to come on our show and discuss the issues. McSweeney’s early start gives him quite a jump in terms of campaign organization, staffing, grass roots organization and message development-- and perhaps in terms of some key endorsements.
For partial transcripts of appearances by 8th CD candidate primary candidate David McSweeney on "Public Affairs," in May, 2005, January, 2005 and January, 2005 See here, here and here, respectively.
For more about another candidate, Rep. Bob Churchill [R- Grayslake], who only recently entered the 8th CD Republican Primary, see here [Rep. Churchill appeared on our show in late spring; We only spent a portion of our time with Rep. Churchill on national issues because he was only thinking about running in the 8th CD primary; most of our time was spent on state legislative issues].
For more about another 8th CD candidate, Teresa Bartels, and our phone interview with Teresa, see here. Teresa has scheduled three appearances for our show and canceled three appearances, so our viewers and we know a little less about her. We hope to have her on the show, but she has not yet committed to a new date for doing so.
Also running in the 8th CD Republican Primary are Arron B. Lincoln and Ken Arnold [See here].
The first term incumbent Congresswoman in the 8th CD, Melissa Bean, was last on our show in August, 2004 See here. We have been trying since she took her seat in January, 2005 to have her back. Team Bean tells me she would like to come back and in our last conversation, they indicated they would try to produce the witness, I mean the candidate, for a December, 2005 taping.
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A partial transcript of our show with candidate Kathy Salvi is included, below:
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Jeff Berkowitz: Tort Reform. You support caps on non-economic damages?
Kathy Salvi: Well, here. On tort reform, I have a brother-in-law who is the former head of the McHenry County Medical Society.
Jeff Berkowitz: What’s his name?
Kathy Salvi: Tom Salvi. Dr. Tom Salvi of Crystal Lake. I have a brother-in-law who is the former head of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association.
Jeff Berkowitz: His name would be?
Kathy Salvi: Pat Salvi.
Jeff Berkowitz: And, you have a husband Al Salvi, who is no slouch himself as a trial lawyer.
Kathy Salvi: That’s right. But, if anybody knows the tort issue from all sides, backwards and forwards, it would be Kathy Salvi. [who is a pretty good trial lawyer herself, having taught her husband how to be a trial lawyer].
Jeff Berkowitz: Yes or no, would you support those caps on non-economic damages.
Kathy Salvi: So, let me just tell you—what I am completely support of [is] meaningful tort reform. Every bill that comes before—
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Jeff Berkowitz: Now, we only have a few minutes left. So, with that, [please] answer that question that I asked.
Kathy Salvi: Ask me my position on tort reform.
Jeff Berkowitz: No, you don’t get to [frame your own questions]. The question to you is, “Do you support caps on non-economic damages? Because people suspect that with Al Salvi and all of those relatives you just mentioned, they would propel you not to support that [caps on non-economic damages].”
Kathy Salvi: I will support nothing that will erode our civil justice system. And, I believe a cap on non-economic damages will do nothing to drive down malpractice insurance premiums.
Jeff Berkowitz: I take that as a No. [Let’s go to] net worth. People have wondered-- Your net worth should have been filed [by now]. It wasn’t filed a few weeks ago [when your federal form was due]. That’s important- because [people] want to know your commitment. What is the net worth of the Salvi family?
Kathy Salvi: It was filed on the 30th.
Jeff Berkowitz: What is your net worth?
Kathy Salvi: Which I think was the 30th day [after the filing of the Kathy Salvi candidacy?].
Jeff Berkowitz: What is your net worth?
Kathy Salvi: I think it will come in somewhere in the range of my other opponent, Mr. McSweeney.
Jeff Berkowitz: Which would be what? 5 to 6 million dollars?
Kathy Salvi: Where was he?
Jeff Berkowitz: 5 to 6 million dollars?
Kathy Salvi: Somewhere in that range.
Jeff Berkowitz: All right, so how much are you folks going to commit to spend on this campaign?
Kathy Salvi: Somewhere in that—
Jeff Berkowitz: How much will you and Al spend on this campaign.
Kathy Salvi: We have many people behind us. We are raising money every single day.
Jeff Berkowitz: What is the biggest issue in the Republican Primary?
Kathy Salvi: We will put ourselves fully and completely into this race, Jeff, but I can’t tell you—[The End].
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Kathy Salvi, candidate in the 8th Cong. Dist. Republican Primary, recorded on October 2, 2005, and as the program will air on the suburban edition of “Public Affairs,” next week [Week of Oct. 17] and on the City of Chicago edition of “Public Affairs,” Monday night, October 24 at 8:30 pm on CANTV, Cable Ch. 21.
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The suburban edition of Public Affairs regularly airs in ten North Shore suburbs three times each week: Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:30 p.m. on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Winnetka, Bannockburn, Deerfield, Ft. Sheridan, Glencoe, Highland Park, Highwood, Kenilworth, Lincolnshire and Riverwoods.
In twenty-four North Shore, North and Northwest suburbs, the Kathy Salvi show will air once this coming week [Week of Oct. 17] in its regular time slot: Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. on either Comcast Cable Channel 19 or Channel 35, depending on the suburb. The show airs this coming Tuesday night [Oct. 18] at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Ch. 19 in Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Hoffman Estates, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Niles, Northfield, Palatine, Rolling Meadows and Wilmette. Also, the show airs Tuesday night [Oct. 18] at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Ch. 35 in Arlington Heights, Bartlett, Glenview, Golf, Des Plaines, Hanover Park, Mt. Prospect, Northbrook, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Schaumburg, Skokie, Streamwood and Wheeling.
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The "Public Affairs," program with Kathy Salvi also will air through-out the City of Chicago Monday night, Oct. 24 at 8:30 pm on CANTV, Cable Ch. 21.
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Jeff Berkowitz: Now, we only have a few minutes left. So, with that, [please] answer that question that I asked.
Kathy Salvi: Ask me my position on tort reform.
Jeff Berkowitz: No, you don’t get to [frame your own questions]. The question to you is, “Do you support caps on non-economic damages?
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Next Week’s suburban edition of Public Affairs features Kathy Salvi, who is running in the 8th CD Republican Primary for the right to take on Cong. Melissa Bean [D-Barrington, 8th CD]. Kathy officially entered the race a few weeks ago but unofficially it was about three months ago. This was her first appearance on our show. There are a number of topics we didn’t cover, so we hope to have her back. For more about Kathy Salvi, see the feminine mystique and see her campaign site.
For more about the 8th CD race and one of Kathy’s primary competitors, David McSweeney, see here. McSweeney has been on the show three times. This reflects the fact that David McSweeney has been in the race, in one form or another, since January and has been quite willing to come on our show and discuss the issues. McSweeney’s early start gives him quite a jump in terms of campaign organization, staffing, grass roots organization and message development-- and perhaps in terms of some key endorsements.
For partial transcripts of appearances by 8th CD candidate primary candidate David McSweeney on "Public Affairs," in May, 2005, January, 2005 and January, 2005 See here, here and here, respectively.
For more about another candidate, Rep. Bob Churchill [R- Grayslake], who only recently entered the 8th CD Republican Primary, see here [Rep. Churchill appeared on our show in late spring; We only spent a portion of our time with Rep. Churchill on national issues because he was only thinking about running in the 8th CD primary; most of our time was spent on state legislative issues].
For more about another 8th CD candidate, Teresa Bartels, and our phone interview with Teresa, see here. Teresa has scheduled three appearances for our show and canceled three appearances, so our viewers and we know a little less about her. We hope to have her on the show, but she has not yet committed to a new date for doing so.
Also running in the 8th CD Republican Primary are Arron B. Lincoln and Ken Arnold [See here].
The first term incumbent Congresswoman in the 8th CD, Melissa Bean, was last on our show in August, 2004 See here. We have been trying since she took her seat in January, 2005 to have her back. Team Bean tells me she would like to come back and in our last conversation, they indicated they would try to produce the witness, I mean the candidate, for a December, 2005 taping.
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A partial transcript of our show with candidate Kathy Salvi is included, below:
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Jeff Berkowitz: Tort Reform. You support caps on non-economic damages?
Kathy Salvi: Well, here. On tort reform, I have a brother-in-law who is the former head of the McHenry County Medical Society.
Jeff Berkowitz: What’s his name?
Kathy Salvi: Tom Salvi. Dr. Tom Salvi of Crystal Lake. I have a brother-in-law who is the former head of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association.
Jeff Berkowitz: His name would be?
Kathy Salvi: Pat Salvi.
Jeff Berkowitz: And, you have a husband Al Salvi, who is no slouch himself as a trial lawyer.
Kathy Salvi: That’s right. But, if anybody knows the tort issue from all sides, backwards and forwards, it would be Kathy Salvi. [who is a pretty good trial lawyer herself, having taught her husband how to be a trial lawyer].
Jeff Berkowitz: Yes or no, would you support those caps on non-economic damages.
Kathy Salvi: So, let me just tell you—what I am completely support of [is] meaningful tort reform. Every bill that comes before—
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Jeff Berkowitz: Now, we only have a few minutes left. So, with that, [please] answer that question that I asked.
Kathy Salvi: Ask me my position on tort reform.
Jeff Berkowitz: No, you don’t get to [frame your own questions]. The question to you is, “Do you support caps on non-economic damages? Because people suspect that with Al Salvi and all of those relatives you just mentioned, they would propel you not to support that [caps on non-economic damages].”
Kathy Salvi: I will support nothing that will erode our civil justice system. And, I believe a cap on non-economic damages will do nothing to drive down malpractice insurance premiums.
Jeff Berkowitz: I take that as a No. [Let’s go to] net worth. People have wondered-- Your net worth should have been filed [by now]. It wasn’t filed a few weeks ago [when your federal form was due]. That’s important- because [people] want to know your commitment. What is the net worth of the Salvi family?
Kathy Salvi: It was filed on the 30th.
Jeff Berkowitz: What is your net worth?
Kathy Salvi: Which I think was the 30th day [after the filing of the Kathy Salvi candidacy?].
Jeff Berkowitz: What is your net worth?
Kathy Salvi: I think it will come in somewhere in the range of my other opponent, Mr. McSweeney.
Jeff Berkowitz: Which would be what? 5 to 6 million dollars?
Kathy Salvi: Where was he?
Jeff Berkowitz: 5 to 6 million dollars?
Kathy Salvi: Somewhere in that range.
Jeff Berkowitz: All right, so how much are you folks going to commit to spend on this campaign?
Kathy Salvi: Somewhere in that—
Jeff Berkowitz: How much will you and Al spend on this campaign.
Kathy Salvi: We have many people behind us. We are raising money every single day.
Jeff Berkowitz: What is the biggest issue in the Republican Primary?
Kathy Salvi: We will put ourselves fully and completely into this race, Jeff, but I can’t tell you—[The End].
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Kathy Salvi, candidate in the 8th Cong. Dist. Republican Primary, recorded on October 2, 2005, and as the program will air on the suburban edition of “Public Affairs,” next week [Week of Oct. 17] and on the City of Chicago edition of “Public Affairs,” Monday night, October 24 at 8:30 pm on CANTV, Cable Ch. 21.
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The suburban edition of Public Affairs regularly airs in ten North Shore suburbs three times each week: Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:30 p.m. on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Winnetka, Bannockburn, Deerfield, Ft. Sheridan, Glencoe, Highland Park, Highwood, Kenilworth, Lincolnshire and Riverwoods.
In twenty-four North Shore, North and Northwest suburbs, the Kathy Salvi show will air once this coming week [Week of Oct. 17] in its regular time slot: Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. on either Comcast Cable Channel 19 or Channel 35, depending on the suburb. The show airs this coming Tuesday night [Oct. 18] at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Ch. 19 in Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Hoffman Estates, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Niles, Northfield, Palatine, Rolling Meadows and Wilmette. Also, the show airs Tuesday night [Oct. 18] at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Ch. 35 in Arlington Heights, Bartlett, Glenview, Golf, Des Plaines, Hanover Park, Mt. Prospect, Northbrook, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Schaumburg, Skokie, Streamwood and Wheeling.
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The "Public Affairs," program with Kathy Salvi also will air through-out the City of Chicago Monday night, Oct. 24 at 8:30 pm on CANTV, Cable Ch. 21.
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