Better than Katie and Tom: 8th CD Candidates on Cable/Streaming
Updated Sep. 7, 2006 at 2:00 am: The Public Affairs show consisting of press conferences with each of the 8th CD candidates: Cong. Melissa Bean [D], David McSweeney [R] and Bill Scheurer [I] has now been added to the Public Affairs video podcast page. [Watch Bean, McSweeney, Scheurer and many, many others here].
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"Public Affairs," is featuring 8th CD candidates Cong. Melissa Bean [D-Barrington], David McSweeney [R-Barrington Hills] and Bill Scheurer [I-Lindenhurst] tonight in thirty-five Chicago Metro suburbs [See, below, end of this post, for a detailed suburban airing schedule] on Comcast Cable; this coming Monday night [Sep. 11] through-out the City of Chicago on CANTV, Cable Ch. 21 at 8:30 pm; And, All of the Time [24/7], starting soon, on the "Public Affairs," podcast page on your computer [Watch Lang, Blagojevich, Topinka, Obama, McCain, Bean, McSweeney, Scheurer and many, many others here].
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The "Public Affairs," podcast page gives you a choice of more than twenty-five episodes of “Public Affairs," including this week's show with 8th CD candidates Bean, McSweeney and Scheurer, starting soon; Claypool, McCain, Blagojevich, Obama, Topinka, separate shows with 8th CD Democratic incumbent Congresswoman Melissa Bean, 8th CD Republican Nominee David McSweeney; 8th CD Third Party Candidate Bill Scheurer; Tony Peraica, Cook County Commissioner and Republican Nominee for County Board President; Ald. Todd Stroger, Democratic Nominee for Cook County Board President and many, many more on our video and audio podcast page[Watch here].
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This week’s suburban edition of Public Affairs features Cong. Melissa Bean [D], David McSweeney [R] and Bill Scheurer [I] answering questions at separate press conferences following the NSACI 8th Cong. Dist. Candidates Forum held on August 24, 2006. The candidates discuss the War, taxes, spending, abortion, which votes matter, NSA warrantless intercepts, NSA data mining, the Patriot Act, CAFTA and much, much more. This Public Affairs program will also air through-out the City of Chicago this coming Monday night, Sep. 11 at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21 [CANTV] and can be viewed anytime on your computer, starting soon [Watch here].
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A partial transcript of the show with 8th CD candidates Bean, McSweeney and Scheurer is included below and an additional partial transcript of the program with the 8th CD candidates will be posted on this blog later this week.
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Jeff Berkowitz: [David] McSweeney contends you are weak on the NSA intercept program. What is your position? Do you support that program wholeheartedly with respect to the wireless [and warrantless] intercepts and also with respect to the data mining that the NSA was involved in?
Cong. Melissa Bean [D-Barrington, 8th CD]: I think that to prevent terrorist actions we do have to have intel relative to Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations and so I do support the program and the FISA provisions and the President says he has been within the law and I think he has the ability within the law to provide that protection to the American public.
Jeff Berkowitz: Did the [federal] District Court judge in Detroit that just declared some of those things unconstitutional-- Did she get it right?
Cong. Melissa Bean: I haven’t looked at what her rationale or position was -- so I couldn’t speak to it.
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Carlos Hernandez Gomez [CLTV]: Congresswoman, 24 debates [David McSweeney has challenged Cong. Bean to 24 debates] might be a bit much but don’t you think having no debates in October probably hurts the constituents by not letting them get a view of you and the issues so close to the race when they are actually paying attention?
Cong. Bean: I’m sorry. No? What?
Carlos Hernandez Gomez [CLTV]: Not debating in October. It seems that most of the debates are ending in September [Sep. 5]. Why not debate in October when people are actually paying attention to these races?
Cong. Bean: Well, I know I’ll be out communicating to the Public and I am sure my opponents will, too. I think by then people are going to be pretty clear on the contrast between myself, as their elected representative, and those who are seeking to oppose me.
Carlos Hernandez Gomez: But, you criticized [Cong.] Phil Crane last time for not debating—
Cong. Bean: Let me get another [question]—
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Jeff Berkowitz: Can you clarify that about the tax cuts. Are you saying unequivocally that when you were running against Cong. Phil Crane [in the ’98 Republican Primary] you did not …oppose a decrease in taxes of 95 billion dollars? Do you have any idea why, if that is the case, that Cong. Bean would make that allegation?
David McSweeney [R-Barrington Hills, 8th CD]: What I said back in ’98 is that Phil Crane was the No. 2 member of the House Ways and Means Committee-- and what I said is that he claimed that he was responsible for a tax bill that I did not think cut taxes enough and that had 100 billion dollars of tax increases in it, and I criticized Phil Crane for being responsible for a bill that did not cut taxes enough. That is my record. Everybody knows that I favor lower taxes. There were attempts during the [2006] Primary to try to say otherwise. We cleared that up. I have a unified [Republican] Party. And, Melissa Bean is just trying to hide from her record. What she wants to do is engage in distortions. She wants to run away from her record. Let’s have more debates. Let's engage in issue differentials and let’s talk about why there are unimportant votes—she says-- and important votes. These are not procedural motions. She, on the Patriot Act [this is an example we talked about], voted to kill the bill. That is what the motion to recommit [is]. You can call the Parliamentarian. It means to send it back to Committee- to kill the bill. Again, she is either misleading all of us or she clearly doesn’t understand what she is voting on.
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Jeff Berkowitz: Do the leftists who support you on the War and support you on opposing CAFTA--
Bill Scheurer [I- Lindenhurst, 8th CD]: There are no leftists in this Country.
Jeff Berkowitz: Well, there are certainly some. Do those same supporters support you on abortion, where you say you would like to see Roe v Wade overturned?
Bill Scheurer: Many of the people who support me-- and I don’t use left or right ever. America is a much richer fabric than can ever be put on a single, straight line. Many of the people who support me on peace and support me on working families do not stand with me in my opposition to abortion as a method of birth control. However, they respect the fact that I genuinely believe what I stand for and they appreciate the fact that I will treat them with respect and that I do recognize extenuating circumstances-- exceptions that are important to all of them.
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From this week’s suburban edition of Public Affairs with the 8th Cong. District candidates. The program, recorded on August 24, 2006, will also air though-out the City of Chicago this coming Monday night, Sep. 11 at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21 [CANTV] and can be viewed anytime on your computer, starting soon, [Watch here].
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Jeff Berkowitz, Show Host/Producer of "Public Affairs," and Executive Legal Recruiter doing legal search can be reached at JBCG@aol.com
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In twenty-five North Shore, North and Northwest suburbs, the show airs tonight in the regular weekly Public Affairs slot, 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Ch. 19 or 35, as indicated, below.
In ten North Shore suburbs, the show is also airing in its regular airing slot at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Ch. 19 this week on Wednesday and Friday, and also in a special airing in these suburbs tonight at 9:30 pm, as indicated, below.
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The episode of Public Affairs, featuring 8th CD Canidates Cong. Melissa Bean [D], David McSweeney [R] and Bill Scheurer [I] airs tonight:
at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Hoffman Estates, parts of Inverness, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Niles, Northfield, Palatine, Rolling Meadows and Wilmette
And at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 35 in Arlington Heights, Bartlett, Glenview, Golf, Des Plaines, Hanover Park, Mt. Prospect, Northbrook, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Schaumburg, Skokie, Streamwood and Wheeling.
and Wednesday night and Friday night at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19 and tonight in a Special Airing at 9:30 pm in Bannockburn, Deerfield, Ft. Sheridan, Glencoe, Highland Park, Highwood, Kenilworth, Lincolnshire, Riverwoods and Winnetka.
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Jeff Berkowitz, Show Host/Producer of "Public Affairs," and Executive Legal Recruiter doing legal search can be reached at JBCG@aol.com
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"Public Affairs," is featuring 8th CD candidates Cong. Melissa Bean [D-Barrington], David McSweeney [R-Barrington Hills] and Bill Scheurer [I-Lindenhurst] tonight in thirty-five Chicago Metro suburbs [See, below, end of this post, for a detailed suburban airing schedule] on Comcast Cable; this coming Monday night [Sep. 11] through-out the City of Chicago on CANTV, Cable Ch. 21 at 8:30 pm; And, All of the Time [24/7], starting soon, on the "Public Affairs," podcast page on your computer [Watch Lang, Blagojevich, Topinka, Obama, McCain, Bean, McSweeney, Scheurer and many, many others here].
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The "Public Affairs," podcast page gives you a choice of more than twenty-five episodes of “Public Affairs," including this week's show with 8th CD candidates Bean, McSweeney and Scheurer, starting soon; Claypool, McCain, Blagojevich, Obama, Topinka, separate shows with 8th CD Democratic incumbent Congresswoman Melissa Bean, 8th CD Republican Nominee David McSweeney; 8th CD Third Party Candidate Bill Scheurer; Tony Peraica, Cook County Commissioner and Republican Nominee for County Board President; Ald. Todd Stroger, Democratic Nominee for Cook County Board President and many, many more on our video and audio podcast page[Watch here].
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This week’s suburban edition of Public Affairs features Cong. Melissa Bean [D], David McSweeney [R] and Bill Scheurer [I] answering questions at separate press conferences following the NSACI 8th Cong. Dist. Candidates Forum held on August 24, 2006. The candidates discuss the War, taxes, spending, abortion, which votes matter, NSA warrantless intercepts, NSA data mining, the Patriot Act, CAFTA and much, much more. This Public Affairs program will also air through-out the City of Chicago this coming Monday night, Sep. 11 at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21 [CANTV] and can be viewed anytime on your computer, starting soon [Watch here].
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A partial transcript of the show with 8th CD candidates Bean, McSweeney and Scheurer is included below and an additional partial transcript of the program with the 8th CD candidates will be posted on this blog later this week.
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Jeff Berkowitz: [David] McSweeney contends you are weak on the NSA intercept program. What is your position? Do you support that program wholeheartedly with respect to the wireless [and warrantless] intercepts and also with respect to the data mining that the NSA was involved in?
Cong. Melissa Bean [D-Barrington, 8th CD]: I think that to prevent terrorist actions we do have to have intel relative to Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations and so I do support the program and the FISA provisions and the President says he has been within the law and I think he has the ability within the law to provide that protection to the American public.
Jeff Berkowitz: Did the [federal] District Court judge in Detroit that just declared some of those things unconstitutional-- Did she get it right?
Cong. Melissa Bean: I haven’t looked at what her rationale or position was -- so I couldn’t speak to it.
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Carlos Hernandez Gomez [CLTV]: Congresswoman, 24 debates [David McSweeney has challenged Cong. Bean to 24 debates] might be a bit much but don’t you think having no debates in October probably hurts the constituents by not letting them get a view of you and the issues so close to the race when they are actually paying attention?
Cong. Bean: I’m sorry. No? What?
Carlos Hernandez Gomez [CLTV]: Not debating in October. It seems that most of the debates are ending in September [Sep. 5]. Why not debate in October when people are actually paying attention to these races?
Cong. Bean: Well, I know I’ll be out communicating to the Public and I am sure my opponents will, too. I think by then people are going to be pretty clear on the contrast between myself, as their elected representative, and those who are seeking to oppose me.
Carlos Hernandez Gomez: But, you criticized [Cong.] Phil Crane last time for not debating—
Cong. Bean: Let me get another [question]—
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Jeff Berkowitz: Can you clarify that about the tax cuts. Are you saying unequivocally that when you were running against Cong. Phil Crane [in the ’98 Republican Primary] you did not …oppose a decrease in taxes of 95 billion dollars? Do you have any idea why, if that is the case, that Cong. Bean would make that allegation?
David McSweeney [R-Barrington Hills, 8th CD]: What I said back in ’98 is that Phil Crane was the No. 2 member of the House Ways and Means Committee-- and what I said is that he claimed that he was responsible for a tax bill that I did not think cut taxes enough and that had 100 billion dollars of tax increases in it, and I criticized Phil Crane for being responsible for a bill that did not cut taxes enough. That is my record. Everybody knows that I favor lower taxes. There were attempts during the [2006] Primary to try to say otherwise. We cleared that up. I have a unified [Republican] Party. And, Melissa Bean is just trying to hide from her record. What she wants to do is engage in distortions. She wants to run away from her record. Let’s have more debates. Let's engage in issue differentials and let’s talk about why there are unimportant votes—she says-- and important votes. These are not procedural motions. She, on the Patriot Act [this is an example we talked about], voted to kill the bill. That is what the motion to recommit [is]. You can call the Parliamentarian. It means to send it back to Committee- to kill the bill. Again, she is either misleading all of us or she clearly doesn’t understand what she is voting on.
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Jeff Berkowitz: Do the leftists who support you on the War and support you on opposing CAFTA--
Bill Scheurer [I- Lindenhurst, 8th CD]: There are no leftists in this Country.
Jeff Berkowitz: Well, there are certainly some. Do those same supporters support you on abortion, where you say you would like to see Roe v Wade overturned?
Bill Scheurer: Many of the people who support me-- and I don’t use left or right ever. America is a much richer fabric than can ever be put on a single, straight line. Many of the people who support me on peace and support me on working families do not stand with me in my opposition to abortion as a method of birth control. However, they respect the fact that I genuinely believe what I stand for and they appreciate the fact that I will treat them with respect and that I do recognize extenuating circumstances-- exceptions that are important to all of them.
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From this week’s suburban edition of Public Affairs with the 8th Cong. District candidates. The program, recorded on August 24, 2006, will also air though-out the City of Chicago this coming Monday night, Sep. 11 at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21 [CANTV] and can be viewed anytime on your computer, starting soon, [Watch here].
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Jeff Berkowitz, Show Host/Producer of "Public Affairs," and Executive Legal Recruiter doing legal search can be reached at JBCG@aol.com
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In twenty-five North Shore, North and Northwest suburbs, the show airs tonight in the regular weekly Public Affairs slot, 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Ch. 19 or 35, as indicated, below.
In ten North Shore suburbs, the show is also airing in its regular airing slot at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Ch. 19 this week on Wednesday and Friday, and also in a special airing in these suburbs tonight at 9:30 pm, as indicated, below.
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The episode of Public Affairs, featuring 8th CD Canidates Cong. Melissa Bean [D], David McSweeney [R] and Bill Scheurer [I] airs tonight:
at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Hoffman Estates, parts of Inverness, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Niles, Northfield, Palatine, Rolling Meadows and Wilmette
And at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 35 in Arlington Heights, Bartlett, Glenview, Golf, Des Plaines, Hanover Park, Mt. Prospect, Northbrook, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Schaumburg, Skokie, Streamwood and Wheeling.
and Wednesday night and Friday night at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19 and tonight in a Special Airing at 9:30 pm in Bannockburn, Deerfield, Ft. Sheridan, Glencoe, Highland Park, Highwood, Kenilworth, Lincolnshire, Riverwoods and Winnetka.
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Jeff Berkowitz, Show Host/Producer of "Public Affairs," and Executive Legal Recruiter doing legal search can be reached at JBCG@aol.com
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