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Our Village, Our News
NOVEMBER 14, 2012
Vol. 4 No. 50
Foster wins big on Election Night DuPage County saw both decisive and down-to-the wire wins during the Nov. 6 elections. By Robin Ambrosia Staff reporter
One of the most intensely watched races throughout the country was Democrat Bill Foster’s challenge to incumbent U.S. Rep. Judy Biggert for the re-districted Congressional District 11. Since 1998, Biggert has represented the Illinois Congressional District 13. But the Nov. 6 election featured other significant races as well. Despite getting the endorsements of the Illinois Education Association, Chicago Tribune and the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150, Biggert lost to Foster by 3,286 votes. In 2008, Foster won the U.S. Congressional District 14 seat in a special election when Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert stepped down, but then lost in the 2010 election to U.S.
Rep. Randy Hultgren. “For our district and for our country, the debate on Obamacare is over,” Foster said. “The debate about whether our financial system should return to a world of unlimited leverage and zero regulation — the debate is over. And for our district and for our country, the debate as to whether all Americans should be asked to share of the sacrifice for the difficult cures to the real problems our nation faces, that debate is over, too.” This race was never supposed to happen, according to Biggert in her concession speech on election night. “When the new congressional districts were formed in Springfield by the Democrats, Illinois State Senate President John Cullerton said ‘Biggert is gone’,” Biggert said. “We turned what was supposed to be in a Democratic slam dunk into one
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Democrat Bill Foster at Tuesday’s speaks to a crowd of supporters at the Holiday Inn in Bolingbrook.
of the most competitive races in the country. We made them work for it.” Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam was re-elected significantly to the Illinois Congressional District 6th seat, receiving 59 percent of the vote over his Democratic challenger Leslie Coolidge.
“Thank you, 6th District, for your strong showing of support,” Roskam said. “I am honored to be your voice in the 113th Congress and to return with a strong GOP majority.” Even with the addition of Foster, Republicans still will have the majority in U.S. House, while Democrats continue their
majority in the U.S. Senate. In the state races, incumbent Republican Kirk Dillard won decisively with 65 percent of the vote over Democratic challenger A. Ghani in Illinois Senate District 24. Dillard stated the focus See ELECTION, page 2