McHenry County Blog

8th Congressional District Republican candidate David McSweeney would have had every right to go ballistic when he saw Democratic Party incumbent Melissa Bean's latest mailing.

It contains as blatant a lie as I have seen since 1992.

McSweeney sent out this press release about the absolute falsehood Bean mailed out to people about McSweeney’s favoring drilling for oil in Lake Michigan.

In it she quotes the Illinois Leader, the valuable conservative news source which publisher Dan Proft killed off. With its death went any way for the general public to discover if Melissa Bean was lying or not.

Fortunately, former Illinois Leader editor Fran Eaton, who now runs Illinois Review, to which I contribute, pulled up her 2005, very long article, and re-published it. Here is where you find the only part that touches on oil.

Here’s all I can find that touches on oil in what Eaton wrote:

I strongly support the President’s energy policy. The U.S. House of Representatives voted for an energy bill which Melissa Bean opposed, that bill would have allowed a safe development of natural gas resources in the U.S., safe development of nuclear power, and I’m strongly in favor of trying to increase our domestic capabilities on energy production.

There is absolutely nothing about drilling for in Lake Michigan!

If the lies are this blatant over a month before the election, what part of the Rahm Emanuel-driven Chicago politics will we see the week before the election?

No wonder Melissa Bean is refused all but one post-Labor Day debate, which took place the day after Labor Day.

She’d get torn to shreds.