Sean Casten Presents a False Business Background

Out on the campaign trail and in his T.V. adds Casten presents himself as a clean energy entrepreneur and a successful businessman.

But nothing could be closer to the truth. He says he's an outsider to "bring a common-sense approach to the job" for which he is highly qualified.

However in 2015, Casten was hit by a law suit from an investor in Recycled Energy Development. Casten was the company president and CEO. His company converted emissions from power plants into energy. The lawsuit contained allegations of mismanagement against Casten and his leaders for "baseless accounting manipulation,"  "inflated salaries," "improperly inflated bonuses," and irresponsible spending."

Casten settled with investors management firm. But preferred interest holders were given their investment plus their interest, common interest investors were not compensated.

Casten denied the allegations given in court saying "Everything that was said there was false. Period."

U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam running against Casten says "Casten is not ready to lead and has not been forthright with voters." "That is a big red flag and it speaks of being entrusted to something. The people who entrusted him with investments found him not to be trustworthy."

The race has national implications. It is viewed by both Republicans and Democrats as crucial to determining control of the house.

George Polk and his company Tulum Management filed the law suit, alleged that Casten manipulated financial results at RED(Recycled Energy Development) "in order to paint an optimistic financial picture that was simply unsupportable." The suit called the family leadership a "reign of error" and more focused on "ego gratification."

The suit was settled out of court. "We sold it under an agreement that every single investor, including Mr.Polk, agreed to because they thought that was an economically good thing to do ." Casten said, "So at the end of the day, I met my obligations to everybody who was out there."

Preferred interest investors received their principal plus 15% annual interest. Common interest holders received little or none of their interest.

Why report this? Because it shows irresponsibility upon Casten in running his business and that his mismanagement was a substantial loss to investors.  

In 2000-2007 Casten was president and CEO of Turbosteam, a company that specialized in design and sale of equipment to recover waste energy and turn it into electric power. Turbosteam was a subsidiary of RED Polk's investment firm said in court "it violated the operating agreement by authorizing the inappropriate transfer of funds in May 2012. This was to prop up Turbosteam, which was in the zone of insolvency and facing imminent bankruptcy.

"The overall impact of the Castens mismanagement is substantial" "under all of the assets in the Catens "reign of error" have yielded at least 20% loss in cash flows- and in some cases 80% less cash flow- than originally projected and several- are now inactive and thus effective write offs."

The list of failures are numerous, but all of this proves, Casten is not a good business manger and could be a destructive force in the chair of our government! Leadership is a quality needed to make us feel assured this person can handle the office and be an effective leader as a Representative of the house.

It not only is fearful it is downright scary to put this man in a power position of running our government. In any position, one must prove themselves capable of doing the job. This man does not meet the criteria need and also shows he has a tendency towards dishonesty. Not to forget he is linked to Mike Madigan. Do you want the two on the north side running things? 

Sean Casten is not the man for this job He has not proven himself the man who can handle this job. Better to choose a man who has all ready proven himself U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam

Sixty Thousand New Voters Sign Up For November 2018 Election

60,000 votes according to the Cook County Record to increase the 2018 election. These are voters outside of Chicago setting a record to possibly 1.6 million, a record high.

This is not the year to sit back and take it easy!!

Lately I have been disgusted with the my paper. There have been weeks when there were no positive mentions about Republicans or Conservatives. In this once conservative paper there is now bias towards the left over and over.

To my surprises today I opened the paper and at least a Republican was mentioned. Of course, the article is slanted but they at least mentioned Rep. Peter Roskam and a "larger than life -size cardboard cut out of President Donald Trump."

And they actually had a short mention that the Presidents presence "may be especially profound in crucial swing races." Which they probably had a hard time confessing.

Well, they may also be surprised that the vote of the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh actually has rallied the troupes on both sides of the isle.

Rep Peter Roskam won a sixth term in 2016. His opponent, is Democrat Sean Casten.

Roskam has said that Trump and Osama bin Laden "have tremendous amount in common" saying that Casten has a democratic version of Trump in terms of temperament.

Roskas also criticized Casten in using" politics of ridicule," calling Casten comments as " off- putting and jarring.

U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam, "So I'm of the view that the 6th district is very discerning. The 6th District has been a ticket-splitting district for a long time. Barack Obama won the old 6th district and I won it. Hillary Clinton won this district in the last cycle and I won it. So I think they've got the ability to distinguish and to make good decisions."

So whatever side you are on, Go Out and Vote! This is no time to sit back and think your candidate will win without your vote!!

Kavanaugh Voted In Causing Uncertainty of the Supreme Court

Kavanaugh taking the place of the more moderate Anthony Kennedy causing conservatives to have a working majority of five justices. Making a possibility of broadening gun rights, and relaxing of campaign finance laws. There is also from the left concern about restriction of abortion rights and to rein in federal regulators.

One of the reasons many evangelicals and conservatives voted for President Trump was his promise to put conservative judges who were Constitutionalist on the U.S. Supreme Court. Who would apply the law as written and enforce the text, structure, and original understanding of the Constitution.
It seems as though Judge Brett Kavanaugh is such a judge based upon over 300 published opinions he has written.

He has demonstrated respect for the people threatened by government over-reach over and over again, and often rejected attempts by the federal government to impose onerous regulations on private citizens.

Judge Kavanaugh, {now a Supreme Court Justice} has proven himself to be a leader among his peers on the appellate courts and proven to be deeply respected by the members of the Supreme Court.   The Supreme Court has endorsed his opinions more than a dozen times,including his dissents, which have become the law of the land. His opinions are regularly cited by courts across the country.

Together with Justice Gorsuch and others, he has co-authored The Law of Judicial Precedent, a lengthy treatises on the importance of stare decisis {legal precedent}. He has devoted his life to public service, and has spent 25 of his 28 years serving the American people as an
Associate Independent Counsel, Associated White House Counsel, Assistant and Staff Secretary to George Bush, and as a judge.

Judge Kavanaugh once wrote "The Judges job is to interpret the law, not to make the law or to make policy. To read the words of the statue as written. Read the text of the Constitution as written, mindful of history and tradition. Do not make up new constitutional rights that are not in the text of the Constitution. Don't shy away from enforcing constitutional rights that are in the text of the Constitution".

The direction of the Supreme Court will determine the direction of our nation for the next 15-20 years.

President Trump has done a tremendous job of appointing judges who will uphold the constitution at all  levels in the court.

Written by permission of Concerned
Christian Newsletter

The first paragraph is of my own making formed from the Chicago Tribune