"Dock" Walls Contact Info

Several students were interested in working for Bill "Dock" Walls.  Our contact is Sheila Hubbard and she can be reached at 773-285-7803.  Sheila accompanied Dock to the candiate forum..perhaps you met her?

Dold for 10th Volunteer Opportunities

Robert Dold, http://www.doldforcongress.com/ ,  is a Republican candidate for the 10th Congressional District. There are opportunities for students  to volunteer for his campaign. You can contact Cristen O'Meara at cristen@robertdoldforcongress.com . She is a college student and lives in Barrington and is eager to help Mikva students.

10th Congressional Candidate Forum, Saturday Jan 9th

The League of Women Voters is sponsoring an 10th Congressional  District Candidate Forum on Saturday, January 9th beginning at 9:00 at Arlington Heights Village Hall. Both Republican and Democratic Candidates have been invited. If you can't make it to the forum, you can catch it LIVE on Comcast channel 17. See the LWV website for more details http://www.lwvah.org/calendar.html

Lake County Democratic Candidates Meet and Greet

The 8th District Democrats are sponsoring several meet and greets with the candidates. These events provide a perfect informal time for you to talk to candidates.  One event that is close to a couple of our schools is on Sunday, Jan 10 at 2:00 at the Lakeside Inn in Wauconda  Candidates for many different offices will attend. Visit the website for further information on this event and other meet and greets.  http://www.illinoiseddi.com/.

Meister for Senate Volunteer Opportunity

Jacob Meister is a Democratic candidate for Senate and has field officies in the suburbs that might be easy for students to get to.
His website, http://www.meisterforsenate.com/ , has information on issues and good links to news articles.
Two of the suburban offices are 123 N. Milwaukee Ave, Wheeling and
17949 S. Halsted St., Homewood. Wendy Meister 312-933-5676 will help you organize a group. They are wonderful to work with and very accomodating.

Your Representative on Afghanistan

Congressional Representatives weigh in on how they feel about President Obama's Afghanistan strategy. WBEZ has done all the work for you on their blog. They have embedded links to audio from each representative so you can easily compare their comments. Learning about how candidates (which many of these Representatives are) feel about one specific issue is valuable when considering who you want to support. We will be discussing how to create good issue related questions at our forum.

Gubernatorial Debate

http://www.cantv.org/

Above is a link to CAN TV which is broadcasting a gubernatorial debate between Pat Quinn and Dan Hynes on Sunday Dec 6 at 10:00. It will be interesting!