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Dear Editor,

I will be voting for Democrat Dick Durbin in the U.S. Senate race in Illinois. Senator Durbin without a doubt is one of the most respected and effective senators in the nation. He has led an exemplary effort to raise the the national minimum wage, and has common-sense, people-first solutions to the issues of our day. Do we really need a senator who, with his party, wants to lower corporate income taxes? This at a time when corporations are more profitable than any time in our nation's history? How much more greed do we need supporting big oil and big pharma and the rest? Durbin provides solid thinking and a common man's approach to government. We desperately need another six years of his leadership in the Senate. I wholeheartedly support Dick Durbin for U.S. Senate.

Ed Kozak

Garfield Ridge

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Hey,

You better watch where you step with this antagonism of Congressman Dan Lipinski. Why you are going after him on this parade thing, I don't know. But what comes around goes around. Got it, buddy?

Anonymous

Editor's reply: We're not "going after" anyone, buddy, on the Pumpkin Parade. We simply let people know a fact we learned (indirectly) from the Clearing Civic League: that this year's parade had been moved from Garfield Ridge, which it has. That's the congressman's prerogative, of course, since he is the parade's sponsor, and it's his staff that pulls it all together.

The key question, of course, is why the parade was moved to Summit. Alderman Zalewski's staffers were telling callers that the parade had been moved to Tinley Park, because the congressman wanted to "move the parade around" in an effort to be more fair to all the municipalities in the Third Congressional District.

Then about a week later, the congressman's chief of staff was quoted in the Southwest News-Herald, saying that the parade was yanked from Garfield Ridge because of road construction on Austin Avenue, but that it will be back in Garfield Ridge in 2015. Make of that what you will, but that's the official explanation.

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Dear Editor:

I am really angry that the pumpkin parade was taken away from Garfield Ridge. Why would Lipinski do such a thing to us? I know he doesn't live here, like his father did, but really, why? My neighbor told me this parade has been here on Archer at least 30 years.

I heard it had something to do with construction on Austin. I can't see how that would make a difference. The parade goes nowhere near Austin, and if people wanted to get back and forth to Clearing, they could just use Central or Harlem.

This is a big disappointment. My kids love that parade, and we are NOT going to Summit.

Terese Malzone
Garfield Ridge

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Editor:

So Congressman Lipinski took our parade away from us in Garfield Ridge. Why doesn't the alderman respond by staging his own parade on Archer? I think it's interesting that every year, Zalewski and other politicians slap their names right under Lipinski's name on the parade poster to tag along and get credit, but now that Lipinski pulls out, these other politicians are nowhere to be found, at least that I have seen.

These guys are great at having their pictures taken with our neighborhood children so they can appear in the neighborhood newspapers, but when it comes time to stand up for our boys and girls, they're out to lunch. Bunch of cowards. 

John Wilkosz

Garfield Ridge

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Editor,

I don't know what the truth is about how Lipinski decided to move the parade, but to me it looks like a big political slap in the face to our alderman, Mike Zalewski, and that's the last thing he needs with this remapping of the ward. He's in the fight of his life, and we're doing everything we can to get him re-elected--and then Lipinski pulls the rug out from under him? What's up with that?

David Olszewski
Garfield Ridge

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Editor,

I'm not sure what all the fuss is over the parade moving from Archer Avenue to Archer Road. I'll go either way. It's nice to see the little ones in their costumes.

Melinda Hernandez
Clearing

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