Team Sean Casten

2/ At 8, my son is already all too familiar with lockdown drills. He's heard about and become extremely emotional over school shootings on more than one occasion. Roskam, who has an A rating from the NRA, has not voted once for gun legislation aimed at keeping him safe in school.

3/ Thankfully, my son is healthy. But when a close family member was in the hospital recently, he learned only then that you had to pay (a lot) for medical expenses. He looked at me in disbelief and said, "You mean if people don't have money they could die? Even kids?"

4/ Roskam has voted repeatedly to take healthcare from millions. Instead of working toward fixing or "replacing" the ACA, he and the GOP continue to sabotage it. This sabotage will result in an estimated premium increase of over $3600 for a family of four in #IL06.

5/ Roskam has done nothing to advocate for my public school-attending son or his teachers. In fact, he received a D rating from @NEAToday due to his lack of support for public education and educators. He supports vouchers, which take money from the public school system.

6/ I'm always extolling the virtues of caring for our planet to my son. (I kind of want it to be around for him & his great grandchildren.) Roskam received a 3% rating from @lcvoters last year. Only since running against a climate hawk does he suddenly "care about our earth."

7/ (By the way, have you seen the new IPCC assessment? We have a decade to ward off catastrophic warming. We need action now. Roskam has spent the last 12 years in congress ignoring climate change & calling it "junk science.")

8/I can go on, from cutting SNAP benefits to delaying CHIP. From not immediately denouncing pedophile Roy Moore when asked to voting to cut Pell grants for college students. Roskam has had years in congress to do something about the issues affecting our kids.He has chosen not to.

9/ Casten will protect our environment and push for common sense gun laws, universal healthcare, investing in early education, and easing student debt.