Robert Gorman for Congress | 11th District, Illinois

Robert Gorman

for UNITED STATES CONGRESS | 11th DISTRICT, ILLINOIS

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	Press Release & News Stories
	Gorman Charges Republicans with Duplicity, 10/02/07
	Gorman ready for campaign - Morris Daily Herald, 09/24/07
	Weller not running, 09/20/07
	Gorman running for Congress, 09/13/07

Gorman ready for campaign
JoAnn Hustis, Morris Daily Herald 09/24/07

FRANKFORT - Long-time real estate appraiser Robert Gorman says he's up to the campaign next year in the 11th Congressional District.

Gorman is a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination in the 2008 election.
Congressman Jerry Weller, R-Morris, is announcing at noon today he will not seek re-election to his eighth term on the federal level, and is leaving office to spend more time with his wife, Guatemalan Congresswoman Zury de Weller, and the couple's 13-month-old daughter.

“There's a mental framework to get yourself into, and I'm in just a delightful mental framework for this election because I don't need it,” said Gorman.

Which means the position isn't vital to his economic well-being, he indicated.

“I'm not going to be rewarded because if I win, I'm not going to make any more money,” he said. “I'll not have a career of 30 years in Congress, or people I have to worry about whether I owe them anything.

“All I have to do is live my life the way I've always lived it - honest, direct, and happily. There are so many issues that I'll just have a wonderful time.”

Gorman said today in a press release the talk of Weller not seeking re-election in 2008 has fueled significant speculation as to who will be joining him in the 11th District race for congressman.

He said the names which are surfacing tend to be those of state senators and state representatives - those with which people are familiar.

“These are the same people who have proven they cannot run the state of Illinois,” Gorman said. “If a budget cannot be put together in Illinois, it is not because of testosterone or estrogen, it is because of the people who are trying to run Illinois simply are not capable of doing it.

“Now, the party hierarchy wants to promote them to Washington,” he said.

He indicated in the press release he thinks “Washington is enough of a mess.”

Gorman suggested to any incumbents planning to run that “your record will be looked at closely, and you will have to be prepared to defend it.”

“If you are a Democrat, be prepared to be ‘Swiftboated.'”

In addition, he believes new people are needed in elected positions.

“I am new, and I have positions. I'm not just running on my name recognition,” he is quoted in the release.

“As the race goes on, issues have to be discussed - issues like the war in Iraq, medical research (stem cell research), health care (national system or not), Social Security solvency, Medicare/Medicaid, immigration reform, balanced budgets and international trade.”

Gorman decided to jump into the campaign because his early life was steeped in politics, then he dropped out of partisan politics in the early 1980s while developing his business and helping his wife raise their children.

A former GOP committeeman in Thornton Township, Gorman once ran for the Republican nomination for congress, and was endorsed by the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News.

Now the family is grown and he has time once again for politics, but this coming after switching political parties.

“The GOP is no longer a party of inclusiveness, but one of exclusiveness,” he said, defining himself as a financially conservative political moderate with liberal tendencies on the social front.

“I feel entirely comfortable within the Democratic Party,” he said. “The very first election I worked in was for John F. Kennedy while I was in high school.”