Thread by @AliAdair22

😎Watch out Washington.

🚨This guy doesn’t like corruption.

🏛️And he’s coming to D.C.

⚖️Right now he’s the State’s Attorney for St. Clair County in Southern Illinois.

💼Name: Brendan Kelly. @Kelly4SouthrnIL

🏃🏾‍♂️Running for U.S. Congress in IL-12

🚨If you're a criminal, you should be worried:

⏺️Kelly established the Violent Crime Unit, through which the most heinous cases are pursued through vertical prosecution

brendan4southernil.com/about/

⏺️Kelly established the Special Prosecutions Division in St. Claire County & quadrupled the number of public corruption cases filed since he took office in 2010
⏺️Kelly also opened the Tracy Fogarty Domestic Violence Unit under which domestic violence prosecutions have tripled

⏺️The Illinois Attorney General named him to the state Sexual Assault Task Force
⏺️Former Illinois Governor Pat Quinn appointed him to the IL Juvenile Justice Commission in 2013
⏺️Governor Bruce Rauner appointed him to the Illinois Criminal Justice & Sentencing Reform Commission

⏺️Using his experience as a former school board member, Kelly, established the St. Clair County Juvenile Justice Council & Children’s Justice Division, which works closely with school districts to fight parent-caused truancy to keep kids from becoming felons

⏺️Kelly started his law enforcement career in college, volunteering with a non-profit group that worked with law enforcement combating child prostitution in Calgary, Canada
⏺️ Kelly was awarded the Illinois Mothers Against Drunk Driving Hero Award

co.st-clair.il.us/government/off…

⏺️Kelly was named Prosecutor of the Year by the Southern Illinois Law Enforcement Commission
⏺️Kelly serves as the Chairman of the St. Clair County Child Advocacy Center Board

🎖️Brendan Kelly comes from a military family: his grandfather is an Army veteran, his mother and father were lifelong Department of Defense public servants supporting the military & veterans, his father-in-law is an Air Force veteran, his uncle is an Army veteran...

🎖️(cont'd): ...his brother is a Navy veteran & his brother-in-law is an active member of the Navy. Brendan is a veteran of the Navy as well. Over thirty years ago, his parents moved to Southern Illinois near Scott Air Force Base—& Southern Illinois is where he raised his family.

👨🏾‍🎓Brendan graduated from Notre Dame with an ROTC scholarship, then was commissioned by the Navy in the Middle East, where he did research on Israeli-Palestinian joint police patrols. Kelly also served on the USS Heron MHC-52.

🎖️🙌Brendan Kelly is endorsed by .votevets.org:

votevets.org/candidates/bre…

💰Brendan Kelly’s opponent Mike Bost takes money from PACs run by special interest groups. .Sourcewatch.org shows that $10,000 was given to Bost by KochPAC, a Political Action Committee that represents the interests of Koch Industries & its affiliates.

sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch…

🏭Charles Koch's interests? Three big ones: being able to pollute without facing consequences (or spend money), breaking up employee unions and cutting off aid to “poor” people.

⬛️💰Note that this is only money that has to be declared, there may be much more that is concealed, using the “triad” campaign finance scheme, which utilizes tax exempt shell corporations & funnels money to them in order to avoid disclosure laws.

⬛️💰Better known as dark money.

⁉️In return?

These politicians must vote to protect Koch Industries’ interests.

Mike Bost has “raised” over $2.4 million dollars—quite a bit over the average raised by other House members—and $1.2 million of that are from PAC Contributions. Which means Koch is probably nervous.

🗣️But this Brendan Kelly campaign ad really does say it all.

📜Script:
🧒My opponent has been in office since I was eight years old. [holds up pic of himself at 8.]

⚕️He’s had a chance to fix our healthcare. But he didn’t.

📜Script (cont'd):
👴👵Instead, he voted to charge older Americans a massive age tax, to cut protections for people with pre-existing conditions, & to raise costs in Southern Illinois.

💉⚕️He had a chance to stand up to Big Pharma and to protect Medicare. But he didn’t.

📜Script (cont'd):
😀I’m Brendan Kelly, and I approve this message because it’s time for Southern Illinois to have a chance.

🔪Please stand up for the attacks on our healthcare system.

🔷🗳️Please vote for Brendan Kelly @Kelly4SouthrnIL in Il-12!
If you’d like to make a donation—no matter how small—please click here.

secure.actblue.com/donate/31stst4…

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🙌👊Thank you in advance!