I voted for Mr. Marter and I was a candidate for Congress in the 8th District until removed from the ballot. Now, the Republican who wants to replace Duckworth has a nice karmic stain. He claims to be some sort of advocate for disability rights, but he has NO handicap parking at his business, and he kept a disabled candidate off the ballot by opposing his requested disability accommodations. And all of his "local experience?" There's more hogwash. People get into office because they have money and their money talks, or other people give them money and that money talks. Peter DiCianni did the following to get money and make it talk, as you can see on his public campaign finance reports, Illinois and FEC. It does talk...about his character. https://www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisclosure/CommitteeDetail.aspx?ID=24027 and Search on DiCianni here and look at the contributions in his 2015 End of Year Report: http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/candcmte_info.shtml FEC Matter Under Review (MUR): 6970 1. he took contributions from national banks in a local account and moved this money into his federal account by giving it to other local politicians, who then gave 1/2 of it to his federal account. 2. he took contributions from a union in a local account and moved this money into his federal account by giving it to other local politicians, who then gave 1/2 of it to his federal account. 3. he took contributions from corporations in a local account and moved this money into his federal account by giving it to other local politicians, who then gave 1/2 of it to his federal account. 4. he took money from at least 2 federal contractors, Union Pacific Railroad and Comcast, just days before announcing that he was running for Congress in September 2015, again in his local account, and moved this money into his federal account by giving it to other local politicians, who then gave 1/2 of it to his federal account. 5. he was giving illegal funds to the other local politicians who later gave to his federal account as early as April of 2015, but he did not file any FEC report for Q2 or Q3, despite raising funds and giving them to these other local politicians. 6. he received money from a union whose contract he signed as mayor of the City of Elmhurst. This appears to be a kickback in the form of an illegal contribution from a union to a congressional candidate. 7. giving money to other politicians and then only taking 1/2 of the money into his federal account appears to be paying the other local politicians to help him move illegal money into his federal account.

I voted for Mr. Marter and I was a candidate for Congress in the 8th District until removed from the ballot. Now, the Republican who wants to replace Duckworth has a nice karmic stain. He claims to be some sort of advocate for disability rights, but he has NO handicap parking at his business, and he kept a disabled candidate off the ballot by opposing his requested disability accommodations. And all of his "local experience?" There's more hogwash. People get into office because they have money and their money talks, or other people give them money and that money talks. Peter DiCianni did the following to get money and make it talk, as you can see on his public campaign finance reports, Illinois and FEC. It does talk. https://www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisclosure/CommitteeDetail.aspx?ID=24027 and Search on DiCianni here and look at the contributions in his 2015 End of Year Report: http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/candcmte_info.shtml FEC Matter Under Review (MUR): 6970 1. he took contributions from national banks in a local account and moved this money into his federal account by giving it to other local politicians, who then gave 1/2 of it to his federal account. 2. he took contributions from a union in a local account and moved this money into his federal account by giving it to other local politicians, who then gave 1/2 of it to his federal account. 3. he took contributions from corporations in a local account and moved this money into his federal account by giving it to other local politicians, who then gave 1/2 of it to his federal account. 4. he took money from at least 2 federal contractors, Union Pacific Railroad and Comcast, just days before announcing that he was running for Congress in September 2015, again in his local account, and moved this money into his federal account by giving it to other local politicians, who then gave 1/2 of it to his federal account. 5. he was giving illegal funds to the other local politicians who later gave to his federal account as early as April of 2015, but he did not file any FEC report for Q2 or Q3, despite raising funds and giving them to these other local politicians. 6. he received money from a union whose contract he signed as mayor of the City of Elmhurst. This appears to be a kickback in the form of an illegal contribution from a union to a congressional candidate. 7. giving money to other politicians and then only taking 1/2 of the money into his federal account appears to be paying the other local politicians to help him move illegal money into his federal account.

It's not about "working you way to the top." Some may do it that way. Others either have money and that money speaks for them, or they get money from others and do what that money says to do. I voted for James Marter and I did so because he was the best candidate in the race. As far as bad candidate, consider the 8th District congressional primary. Or lack of one, since DiCianni took all of his competitors out through objections back in December, with the dirty deeds done in January. He got no media coverage because there was no primary. And that's just what he wanted. He wanted that so badly that he demanded that I bow out of the race last June, when he came to my Village of Streamwood to say just that. Then he used his circulator, Mark Cramer, to object to my 3 disability accommodations because I have two broken legs and a broken hip. ISBE would yield on nothing. I have NEVER in the last 15 YEARS since my car accident had an entire panel of people deny disability accommodations to me. 8-0. What a farce it is, when the state and federal laws should have forced the ISBE to allow collecting signatures online, or witnessing signatures using Skype or FB Video. So Republicans were left with Peter DiCianni, big man because he had no competitors. But since he yanked my chain 4 or 5 times last year, I took a little closer look at him, since I was the statistical analyst for the Indiana Supreme Court, corporate counsel for a billionaire, and performed work on corporate audits in both Italian and English. Republicans now have a candidate who did this, and he had PLENTY of local government experience to learn his dishonest behavior: 1. he took contributions from national banks in a local account and moved this money into his federal account by giving it to other local politicians, who then gave 1/2 of it to his federal account. 2. he took contributions from a union in a local account and moved this money into his federal account by giving it to other local politicians, who then gave 1/2 of it to his federal account. 3. he took contributions from corporations in a local account and moved this money into his federal account by giving it to other local politicians, who then gave 1/2 of it to his federal account. 4. he took money from at least 2 federal contractors, Union Pacific Railroad and Comcast, just days before announcing that he was running for Congress in September 2015, again in his local account, and moved this money into his federal account by giving it to other local politicians, who then gave 1/2 of it to his federal account. 5. he was giving illegal funds to the other local politicians who later gave to his federal account as early as April of 2015, but he did not file any FEC report for Q2 or Q3, despite raising funds and giving them to these other local politicians. 6. he received money from a union whose contract he signed as mayor of the City of Elmhurst. This appears to be a kickback in the form of an illegal contribution from a union to a congressional candidate. 7. giving money to other politicians and then only taking 1/2 of the money into his federal account appears to be paying the other local politicians to help him move illegal money into his federal account.