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Krupa doesn’t mention her 92nd District State House opponent, Jehan Gordon, once.

(press release)

Candidate Forum Location Changed to Barrack’s Due to Flood Prediction

92nd and 106th District State Representatives Candidate Forum
Jehan Gordon/Joan Krupa
Keith Sommer
Date: September 17th, 2008
Time: 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Location: (LOCATION CHANGE) Barrack’s Cater Inn, 1224 West Pioneer Parkway, Peoria

Click here to register for tomorrow’s 92nd and 106th District District State Representatives Candidate Forum!

From the Journal Star:

• I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that there’s flooding in Spring Bay.
• When Alicia Butler ran for re-election to the Peoria District 150 school board, the Journal Star could not write about her without mentioning the discrepancies between what the degrees she claimed to have, and what they were being told by their many sources. Today, Word on the Street twice mentions the race between Joan Krupa and Jehan Gordon for the 92nd District seat in the Illinois House of representative. There is no mention of Gordon having claimed to have a degree she didn’t have, nor any mention of her conviction for shoplifting.
• A grown woman gets sucked into a three-foot-wide storm drainage pipe outside her home. Gee. No need for infrastructure improvements in Peoria. Guess we better build a museum. Or a new library in north Peoria.

(press release)

CALLING HER A PIONEER IN PROVIDING HEALTH CARE IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS, CONGRESSMAN RAY LAHOOD ENDORSES JOAN KRUPA FOR 92ND DISTRICT STATE REP AT A NEWS CONFERENCE SATURDAY

Congressman LaHood detailed his working relationship with Krupa as CEO of Heartland Community Health Care Clinic and their collaboration of efforts to expand the clinic to six sites now serving 18,000 patients

(PEORIA) Congressman Ray LaHood spelled out his reasons for endorsing Joan Krupa for State Representative in the 92nd District at a news conference in front of the Heartland Community Health Care Clinic on Peoria’s East Bluff, a project they worked on together to create.

LaHood lauded Krupa’s passion for providing health care to the area’s uninsured and under-insured people who otherwise would not have received needed health care.

LaHood noted that when Krupa became CEO of the Heartland Community Health Care Clinic it served 850 patients at one clinic. Krupa expanded that to six sites on Peoria’s Southside and East Bluff which now serves 18,000 patients.

LaHood said the Illinois Legislature needs an expert in health care delivery to disadvantaged people and that Krupa fits the bill because she has been a pioneer in expanding health care to thousands of needy area residents.

LaHood also said Krupa was successful in vastly expanding health care access because of her foresight to change the business model of the Heartland Clinic to a federally approved community healthcare center.

“Joan Krupa was relentless in her efforts to improve and expand the Heartland Health Care Clinic and that was fueled by her passion for providing health care to people without the insurance they need,” said LaHood.

LaHood also stressed that Krupa is the right type of person to represent the 92nd District because she has demonstrated how well she has worked in a bi-partisan way to accomplish something great for people in need.

Krupa said Ray LaHood is a role model for her as a public servant because he has demonstrated time and again how well he works across the aisle to get things done.

Krupa noted that in addition to Congressman LaHood, she worked with Senator Dick Durbin, former State Senator George Shadid, State Senator Dave Koehler, and State Representatives David Leitch and Aaron Schock to expand the Heartland Clinic. Krupa said the success in expanding the Heartland Clinic was because of bi-partisan collaboration and would not have been possible without it, an attitude she intends to take to Springfield to reform the broken system in Illinois government.

Krupa said as a State Representative that she intended to be a force to protect the State funding portion that allows community health care clinics to operate.

“As your representative I will implore my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to protect funding for community health care clinics so this vital funding doesn’t go the way of funding for state parks due to the dysfunction in Springfield,” said Krupa. “I will bring patients from the Heartland Clinic down to Springfield if need be to testify to my colleagues to prevent any loss of funding for these crucial clinics that are the only way thousands of people are kept from falling through the cracks in our society.”

I received this in my inbox. I thought I would share to spark discussion of a race that I’ve not devoted much time and energy to since the primary: