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I need a favor from a conservative or GOP voter living in Illinois who can vote in the senate race there.
Here's what prompts me to ask this favor:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...most-cringe-worthy-debate-moment-of-the-week/
I will summarize.
Democratic Representative Tammy Duckworth is running against incumbent GOP Senator Mark Kirk.
Tammy Duckworth is an Iraq war COMBAT veteran who lost 2 limbs serving her country. Her mother is from Thailand. She was also born outside the United States, but she is a US citizen, born to a US citizen. Her father, deceased, was a US Marine whose lineage goes back to the Revolutionary war times. Not that lineage would matter or should matter, Tammy has her American credentials in my opinion merely by serving this country as a combat veteran. IMO if you were an undocumented resident and you served this nation in combat, you should be given full citizenship, period, same as if you were born here. But Tammy is a citizen and an American by parentage, if that were to matter to anyone.
From the article:
During her second general election debate with Kirk, challenger Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) spoke about her deep connection to military service. “You know, my family has served this nation in uniform going back to the Revolution. I’m a Daughter of the American Revolution,” she said. “I’ve bled for this nation. But I still want to be there in the Senate when the drums of war sound, because people are quick to sound the drums of war, and I want to be there to say, ‘This is what it costs. This is what you’re asking us to do. And if that’s the case, I’ll go. Families like mine are the ones that bleed first.”
Kirk was given a chance to respond. “I forgot that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington,” he said.
One of her parents does trace their lineage all the way back to the colonial era to serve George Washington, as it happens. Not to mention her father is also a veteran who served his country.
This is what I am asking:
I need just one (1) person who has voted for or was intending to vote for Senator Mark Kirk to please change their vote to Tammy Duckworth, as I am a US Citizen living abroad and the governor of my particular state (Florida, btw) and the party in charge of my state routinely throws out hundreds or thousands of absentee ballots and my actual official vote will not count in the general election this year. It will be discarded along with thousands of other legal votes.
I am asking you to vote for Tammy this time around, and please feel free to vote Republican everywhere else on the ballot. Vote GOP for the rest of your life, if you want. I just need you to do me this favor, because if there is going to be a Republican Senator from Illinois, it needs to be someone who will think before he speaks.
Please send me a private message if you actually intend to do this for me. I would appreciate it.
You can decline of course. Use your judgment. Just consider it.
Also note, this request could in fact factor into changing the Senate control from Republicans to Democrats.
The Republicans will still control the house and nothing will actually get done either way. But I know that's a factor in your decision and may cause you to be extremely reluctant to do so. Please do it anyway.
Tammy has already served as a combat veteran and a Representative. Even if her politics do not align with yours, I assure you, she will not screw up the country during her Senate term. Vote her out next time if you wish.
This is an almost purely symbolic gesture. I'm not asking for a movement. Just one voter to change their mind, which would allow my disenfranchised voice to be heard in some way.
Here's what prompts me to ask this favor:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...most-cringe-worthy-debate-moment-of-the-week/
I will summarize.
Democratic Representative Tammy Duckworth is running against incumbent GOP Senator Mark Kirk.
Tammy Duckworth is an Iraq war COMBAT veteran who lost 2 limbs serving her country. Her mother is from Thailand. She was also born outside the United States, but she is a US citizen, born to a US citizen. Her father, deceased, was a US Marine whose lineage goes back to the Revolutionary war times. Not that lineage would matter or should matter, Tammy has her American credentials in my opinion merely by serving this country as a combat veteran. IMO if you were an undocumented resident and you served this nation in combat, you should be given full citizenship, period, same as if you were born here. But Tammy is a citizen and an American by parentage, if that were to matter to anyone.
From the article:
During her second general election debate with Kirk, challenger Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) spoke about her deep connection to military service. “You know, my family has served this nation in uniform going back to the Revolution. I’m a Daughter of the American Revolution,” she said. “I’ve bled for this nation. But I still want to be there in the Senate when the drums of war sound, because people are quick to sound the drums of war, and I want to be there to say, ‘This is what it costs. This is what you’re asking us to do. And if that’s the case, I’ll go. Families like mine are the ones that bleed first.”
Kirk was given a chance to respond. “I forgot that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington,” he said.
One of her parents does trace their lineage all the way back to the colonial era to serve George Washington, as it happens. Not to mention her father is also a veteran who served his country.
This is what I am asking:
I need just one (1) person who has voted for or was intending to vote for Senator Mark Kirk to please change their vote to Tammy Duckworth, as I am a US Citizen living abroad and the governor of my particular state (Florida, btw) and the party in charge of my state routinely throws out hundreds or thousands of absentee ballots and my actual official vote will not count in the general election this year. It will be discarded along with thousands of other legal votes.
I am asking you to vote for Tammy this time around, and please feel free to vote Republican everywhere else on the ballot. Vote GOP for the rest of your life, if you want. I just need you to do me this favor, because if there is going to be a Republican Senator from Illinois, it needs to be someone who will think before he speaks.
Please send me a private message if you actually intend to do this for me. I would appreciate it.
You can decline of course. Use your judgment. Just consider it.
Also note, this request could in fact factor into changing the Senate control from Republicans to Democrats.
The Republicans will still control the house and nothing will actually get done either way. But I know that's a factor in your decision and may cause you to be extremely reluctant to do so. Please do it anyway.
Tammy has already served as a combat veteran and a Representative. Even if her politics do not align with yours, I assure you, she will not screw up the country during her Senate term. Vote her out next time if you wish.
This is an almost purely symbolic gesture. I'm not asking for a movement. Just one voter to change their mind, which would allow my disenfranchised voice to be heard in some way.
