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Meister Invites All Ages and Faces to TV Debate
January 12, 2010
Jacob Meister, Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, brought both his economic message and current and future voters whose lives will be improved by his plans to create jobs, provide equal access to affordable housing and deliver quality education to the ABC7 debate Tuesday.
“I stood should-to-shoulder with my opponents debating the issues. Now the voters can decide who they want to be their voice in Washington,” Meister said. “Tonight voters got to see that I can win in November by having real solutions to serious problems, the kind of solutions that will rebuild our economy.”
Meister asked high school and college students and gay rights advocates to join members of his campaign staff at the ABC7 studios Tuesday.
The guests included:
• Gage Park High School seniors Latrice Jones and Termaine Washington, both of whom Meister met late last year when he joined them and their civics teacher Victor Harbison for an afternoon. Meister has repeatedly told voters about the inequities he found at Gage Park, and uses it as a vivid reason for reform of No Child Left Behind.
• Kelsey Peltz, a University of Missouri journalism student and reporter for the university’s student newspaper, the Maneater. She is a resident of Elmhurst.
• Tommy Bennett, the national director of community affairs for the Rainbow Push Coalition.
• Keith Green, the president of the Black Gay Men’s Caucus of Chicago.
Meister told voters that the Democratic nominee must bring integrity back to the U.S. Senate on behalf of Illinois, and reiterated that political endorsements come with strings and a price that will follow the victorious candidate from Chicago to Washington.
“For me, this race has been spent on the ground, in a grassroots effort with offices in six communities throughout the state. While my opponents may consider their politically connected endorsements to be a public validation, they would be wrong. On Feb. 2, there is only one endorsement that matters – the voters’.”
