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11th Congressional District: Bill Foster Wins Over Rick Laib
BY: Abhinanda Datta, Patch Staff BOLINGBROOK, IL — Bill Foster wins over Rick Laib with a total of 62.27 percent of the votes. In March, incumbent Foster earned the Democratic nomination and will now face Republican Laib, who beat fellow Republican Krishna Bansal for their party’s nomination in the Illinois District 11 primary. Foster, who […]
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE ENDORSEMENT: Final choices for the U.S. House
By: The Editorial Board Yes, it’s useful that Democratic Rep. Bill Foster of Naperville has a doctorate in physics. He supports Illinois-based Fermi Lab and Argonne National Laboratory, two important national research centers. But Foster has interests beyond particle accelerators, including the treatment of costly diseases such as Alzheimer’s and diabetes, climate change, the opioid crisis […]
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DAILY HERALD ENDORSEMENT: Foster in U.S. House District 11
By: Daily Herald Editorial Board Steering out of the COVID-19 pandemic and helping to engineer an economic recovery will be crucial dual priorities of the 117th Congress elected this fall. Navigating such challenges will require representatives with no small amount of knowledge as well as dedication to problem solving over political gain. U.S. Rep. Bill […]
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SUN TIMES ENDORSEMENT: Bill Foster for Congress in 11th District
By CST Editorial Board At a time when the discipline of science is being trashed by those who would rather ignore crises such as climate change and COVID-19, it’s nice to have an actual scientist — a nuclear physicist, no less — in Congress. In January, Rep. Bill Foster rose to a particularly strategic position from which to […]
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