(Downers Grove, IL) October 17, 2018 - Less than a year after passing a partisan tax bill that adds $2 trillion to the deficit to give tax cuts to corporate special interests and the ultra wealthy at the expense of the middle class, Mitch McConnell said he would look at cutting Social Security and Medicare to control the deficit. Sean Casten, candidate for Illinois’ Sixth District, released the following statement:
(Downers Grove, IL) Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - Today PL+US Action Paid Family Leave announced their endorsement of Sean Casten, 6th Congressional District Candidate. PL+US Action endorses candidates up and down the ballot from all political parties and every corner of the country who are committed to bold and comprehensive paid family leave.
(Downers Grove, IL) October 15, 2018 - This morning, Sean Casten’s campaign for Congress released a new ad highlighting Peter Roskam’s role as a key author of President Trump’s tax bill that gives trillions in tax breaks to large corporations and the wealthy while adding nearly two trillion to the deficit. The ad also highlights how Roskam’s tax scam jeopardizes Illinoisans’ earned benefits such as Social Security and Medicare. Today, the campaign released the following statement:
(Downers Grove, IL) October 15, 2018 - Following President Donald Trump’s latest denial of climate science on 60 Minutes, in the same week the IPCC released a damning report that the impacts of climate change will become a global crisis by 2040. Sixth District Congressional candidate and scientist Sean Casten released the following statement:
(Downers Grove, IL) October 14, 2018 - Today, the Casten Campaign released a video endorsement from McHenry County Chairman Jack Franks. McHenry County is one of the highest taxed counties in Illinois and the country, where Roskam’s own constituents are seeing tax increases due to the law he authored, in part because Roskam’s law took away their ability to fully write-off their state and local income taxes. Sixth District Congressional Candidate Sean Casten and McHenry County Chairman Jack Franks released the following statements:
(Downers Grove, IL) October 14, 2018 - Sean Casten, Sixth Congressional District candidate, participated in a March For Our Lives town hall last night with survivors of the Parkland school shooting, students from local Illinois high schools, and advocates for common-sense gun safety reform. Casten will meet privately with the Parkland students on Monday for a follow up discussion on gun control and other issues important to them.