Peter Roskam
lacks commitment

I find it interesting that Peter Roskam’s campaign found time to film a commercial, design new election signs and update his Web site, yet Mr. Roskam is unable to find the time to attend the League of Women Voters 6th Congressional candidate forum, which was scheduled for the month of October.

Mr. Roskam’s opponent, Jill Morgenthaler, made a commitment to attend this very important event, which drew 1,000 individuals two years ago. Where is that commitment from Peter Roskam?

Michele Gorman, Wheaton

Client of Saret Fund
needs help with rent

We are seeking help from the Elmhurst person who found a Chase envelope with $650 that belonged to our client.

My client was hit by a drunken driver two weeks ago. This was the fourth accident for the offender, demolishing the beautiful red minivan we gave her in May.

Furthermore, the car donor paid for the transmission repair, making it almost as good as new. This car was given to this young working mom two days before she started the best paying job she has ever had in an Oak Park hospital.

Because of this accident, our client has suffered a concussion, neck and craniosacral damage, knee injury, and it is hard for her to walk let alone work. She is a certified nurse’s aid and began working at a good job two days after we donated the car to her. Her work gave her a three-week break pending recovery.

I finally found a morning to dedicate to her needs and drive her on errands. We drove her up to Palatine where her demolished car was stored to empty from her car important contents, one of them a $75 gift certificate for shoes from Shoe Carnival in Elmhurst.

We dropped her son at school, went to the currency exchange to cash a check so she could pay her landlord for the September rent she still owed and pay a ComEd bill because she was due for disconnection that afternoon. I then dropped her at the shoe store to get shoes for her kids.

We then went to Enterprise Car Rental to check on car rental prices realizing this was not a plausible option at this time.

After I dropped her, she was to go take a nap because she thought she had a ride for a child who walks almost 1 mile from school to the home. The ride did not pan out, and she limped all the way to pick him up. She had her handbag on her.

She called me two hours later and was deeply agitated realizing the envelope with her rent money was missing and hoping she left it in my car. I looked everywhere but could not find it. The envelope must have fallen out of her packed handbag.

She called the police to inform them about the situation.

Because of her injury and no car to get around and because there is a debate whether the drunken driver’s insurance will cover anything in this case, she will be unable to work for at least another month. She is now not just behind on her September rent but now on her October rent, which we were going to try and raise.

We are desperately seeking more car donations for this mom and for several more of our clients. Anyone who can help with this situation please call us at Saret Charitable Fund, (630) 790-4602. Thank you.

Chana Bernstein, president, Saret Charitable Fund

Congressman Roskam
has right idea

Enough with the taxes already! We have an income tax, a sales tax, a gas tax, a marriage tax and even a death tax. That’s right — if you die, you have to pay for it. I guess the only good thing you can say about that is that it gives you an incentive to live.

But at what point do you say enough is enough? I personally think it’s far past due that we eliminate some of these taxes.

It seems like Congressman Peter Roskam agrees. He’s been doing his best to eliminate the marriage penalty tax and the death tax, and wants to make the tax cuts permanent. If the tax cuts are not made permanent, we’ll have the largest tax increase in America history.

Roskam also wants to double the child tax credit, which would help hundreds of thousands of families in the district save for their children’s education.

More money in our pockets and more money for our kids’ futures. That sounds good to me.
Enough taxes! (Not enough politicians like Peter Roskam!)

J. Keesey Hayward, Glen Ellyn