Illinois Herald: Green Bradshaw Hits Rep. Enyart for Yes Vote on ISIS War

By Mark Wachtler

It’s a rematch in the race for the 12th US Congressional District in Illinois. And according to national Republican pollsters, first-term Democratic incumbent Bill Enyart is one of the many vulnerable Congressmen currently in jeopardy of being thrown out of office this November. Nobody would like to see than more than the Green Party candidate for the seat Paula Bradshaw.

Two years ago, Democrat Bill Enyart won election for the open 12th US Congressional seat in this far downstate Illinois district. In that race, he defeated Republican Jason Plummer and the Greens’ Paula Bradshaw. This time around, Bradshaw is back for a rematch against the extremely unpopular rookie Congressman. And with a month and a half before the General Election, Enyart’s most controversial vote may be his recent Yes vote to authorize President Obama’s war on ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

View the full Congressional Roll Call vote on last week’s authorization for a War on ISIS from the Illinois Herald’s sister publication Whiteout Press.

In a statement issued only hours before the US House of Representatives voted to give President Obama authorization to wage war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, Green Party Congressional candidate Paula Bradshaw announced that she opposed the Bill and what she described as, “Obama’s unconstitutional acts of war.”

For its part, the White House has insisted that the President’s declaration of war on ISIS is perfectly legal under Congress’ authorization for war in 2001. Paula Bradshaw disagrees saying, “Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the sole responsibility to declare War, to raise and support Armies, and to appropriate money to that use…The Constitution has been so degraded that we now have Congress meekly allowing Obama to openly declare, and exercise, the power to wage a war of aggression, which is illegal under the Constitution, the UN Charter and other established international law.”

The Green Party candidate for Congress goes on to take a shot at the country’s corporate-owned news industry too. “Meanwhile, the media opines that if Obama did go to Congress and Congress refused to declare war, it would be a sign of Obama’s weakness, and not an outcome of representative democracy.”

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