Originally I was going to do just an article on Kirks lack of respect for Illinoisans when he skipped out on a primary debate that he promised to attend. I've now expanded it to include Kirk's record concerning disabled folk.
Kirk's Debate DisRespect
Mark Kirk is afraid to debate his Republican opponents for the Illinois US Senate primary. After agreeing to debate on Channel 7, Kirk organizes a rival event in East Peoria to undermine WLS-TV’s debate.
Kirk was again challenged to a second debate on the 29th of January by Patrick Hughes, his lead opponent in the campaign. Kirk again declined.
Mark Kirk has ignored the voters of Illinois by refusing to attend candidate debates. He has turned his back to the conservative voters of this state and the democratic process as a whole. More than anything this type of behavior belies two things, Mark Kirk has no respect for the voters of Illinois and He knows that should he ever muster the cahones to present himself for a debate he would surely be shown to the public for the RINO murderous, drug smuggling pimp he is.
So, Kirk is holding on to his primary poll lead by avoiding any truth exposing debates, which he knows will torpedo his chance of getting the primary nod. But, beware of this Kirk and Republican leadership, we will not vote for Kirk, we will find another conservative to vote for in the general election.
Kirk's Handicaps Disabled Persons Anew
Kirk adopted the Republican Main Street Partnership agenda item:
H.R. 914/S. 872 the ADA Notification Act.
Republican Main Street Partnership Congressman Mark Foley (FL) introduced this legislation to protect the Americans with Disabilities Act from a growing number of lawyers who are generating huge sums in legal fees for pointing out accessibility violations by business when often simple fixes would bring properties into compliance with the ADA's accessibility standards. This variety of litigation abuse stems from the lack of any notification provision in the ADA. RMSP supports a 90-day delay between notification of an alleged accessibility violation and any legal proceedings. This notification will allow honest business owners to become ADA compliant without added legal expense while freeing up the courts to pursue legal action against bad players.
Basically this act, which Kirk voted YES for, is total bullshit. Consider that the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990. This act mandated that businesses and public entities have to make their facilities handicapped accessible. These businesses and public entities have had 20 years to make the changes and yet some have not done so. To have gone 20 years and not brought your business into compliance with an act of legislation that would give folks with disabilities the opportunity to access your business either as a patron or a worker is inexcusable.
Mark Kirk wants to give his big money corporate friends an extra 90 days to make things right before someone with a disability can file a suit against them for non-compliance with the ADA.
Nice going Mark, thanks for screwing the disabled folks of America again.
Catch all 15 articles in the Un-elect Mark Kirk Series at Mark Kirk - Count Down to Un-election - Day 15
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Prior to yesterday and beginning with the first day of the series, every article was at one time or another in the top 10 for a google blog search about Kirk. Most times 2 or 3 of the articles showed up in the top 20 for anything related to Kirk. Then all of a sudden, gone.
