McHenry County Blog

Here's is yesterday's press release from 8th congressional Republican candidate David McSweeney:

McSweeney calls on Bean and Company to stop lying
Latest Bean mailing is outright lie

Barrington Township: David McSweeney, candidate for Congress in Illinois' 8th Congressional District, is calling on incumbent Melissa Bean to stop lying. The latest incident occurred when voters opened their mailboxes this weekend and found a Melissa Bean campaign mailing that claims that McSweeney wants to allow oil drilling in the Great Lakes. The Bean mailing also contains misrepresentations of McSweeney's positions on a variety of other important issues.

"Melissa Bean needs to get control of her campaign and tell her handlers to stop lying about my positions on the issues. The latest absurdity from her camp is that I would support drilling for oil in the Great Lakes. Never have I said that or suggested that. Nowhere is there any legislation that would even allow for that. Melissa Bean needs to come forward and accept responsibility for this ridiculous charge and she needs to retract it," said McSweeney.

"My wife and children, my mother, and my siblings and their families drink water that comes from the Great Lakes and to suggest that I would risk the water supply of my family and millions of others is just unconscionable. Because we usually hear from Bean spokesmen I want to believe that this one slipped past her. The fact is that the mailing bearing her name and the name of her campaign contains outright lies," said McSweeney.

"The Bean campaign has hit an all time low. I have endured her and the DCCC berating me as an 'extremist' and other name calling but this latest charge is so outlandish that it becomes the moral equivalent of Venezuela's Chavez calling President Bush the 'Devil'. Even Nancy Pelosi and other leaders in the Democrat Party came forward and condemned those remarks. It is time for Melissa Bean to apologize for this latest desperate act. It is an insult to the voters when politicians feel like their own re-election is more important than the truth," said McSweeney.

"If Melissa Bean wants to continue making wild accusations like this she ought to at least have the guts to do it in an open forum. The Bean camp agreed to only four debates or joint appearances with the last occurring September 5th, a full two months before the election," said McSweeney.

David McSweeney resides in Barrington Township within the 8th Congressional District with his wife Margaret and their two daughters.