In Lynn Sweet’s Sun-Times column this morning:
OBERWEIS AWOL ON ISIL VOTE Congress now is off until after the midterm elections, in which Durbin is running against GOP nominee Jim Oberweis. Thursday’s Senate vote was the most important one this year. The Oberweis campaign declined several requests for an interview or even a statement on how Oberweis would have voted and his views on the conflict. This is not a hypothetical. This is the real world. Illinoisans deserve to know where Oberweis stands. Instead, Oberweis ducked.
When I read this, I wrote to Dan Curry with the Oberweis campaign to inquire. He passed along this statement from Oberweis:
“I think this is a very difficult situation that we would not be in if President Obama had not pulled all of our troops out of Iraq too soon. But that is past. ISIL poses a very dangerous threat to Western civilization and had I been in the Senate I would have listened closely to the debate and likely would have voted yes. However I don’t say that absolutely because the Syrian funding was part of a larger bill that I haven’t seen.”
