. >> adam kinzinger ran for office at the age of 20.nt and joined the air national guard and served several tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan. he is a very well spoken, and very comfortable with the media. he has been challenging on a lot of points. he's great at fundraising. he is running on a kind of a more pro-business, lower taxes platform. he also is not the most conservative person in this primary. he is getting some tea party support, but there were others that he ran against that were more conservative than he was. if the democrats have a plan that is good, i am willing to work with them. i have seen him pull back a little bit from that message, but he ran on a message of it is too partisan and washington. >> we know unemployment around the country is bad. in my district, it is especially bad. we're talking more than 11%. one of the things that has stood out, in illinois, is corruption. there is been a culture of corruption for the last decade in illinois. people are tired of that. they're tired of arrogance in government. i

. >> adam kinzinger ran for office at the age of 20.nt and joined the air national guard and served several tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan. he is a very well spoken, and of points. he's great at fundraising. he is not afraid to pop been on a fund raiser and asked for a contribution. he is running on a kind of a more pro-business, lower taxes platform. he also is not the most conservative person in this primary. he is getting some tea party support, but there were others that he ran against that were more conservative than he was. he ran on an agenda that he is willing to work with others. he has pulled back a little bit. he ran on a message of it being >> we know unemployment around the country is bad. in my district, it is especially bad. one of the things that has stood out, in illinois, is corruption. there is been a culture of corruption for the last decade in illinois. people are tired of that. they're tired of arrogance in government. i think that is the reason we're seeing a lot of the problems we are seeing. that is why w

she is being challenged by adam kinzinger from central illinois, and iraq war veteran and county board of central annoyed. she has a number of challenges and she is a freshman, and for many years this seat was held by republican. the republicans won the seat back. she voted with the president of two of the most controversial bills introduced -- the stimulus package and health care reform bill. so, she is being targeted on a couple of both issues. she did run on health care reform. i do not think she would take too many hits on the health care vote of the stimulus bill, the more stories coming out about how the money is spent, she would have problems. i don't think she wants to be seen with president obama. she is having a hard enough time trying to separate herself from nancy pelosi. there have been mailers outflanking them. she is trying to present herself as an independent so therefore, no, i do not think she wants to be seen with president obama right now. the makeup of the district is largely rural, a few urban pockets but it covers the south and southwest of chicago and a tiny por

. >> adam kinzinger ran for office for the first time at age 20. he went and joined the air national guard and served several tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan. he is very well spoken and very comfortable talking to the media. he has been challenging her on a lot of points. he is credit fund raising. he is not afraid to just drop in and talk to the honor of the white sox and ask for his endorsement. -- the owner of the white sox. he also was not the most conservative person in this primary. he is getting some tea party support, but there were others who ran against in the primary. he said if the democrats have an agenda that is good, he is willing to work with them. he has pulled back from that a little, but he ran on the message that there are two parties in washington and we need to fix what is broken. >> we are talking over 11% in a lot of areas. people just want to get back to work. in illinois specifically, there is a culture of corruption for the last decade and even beyond that. i think people are just tired of that, they are tired of th

congressional district with a debate between democratic rep debbie alderson and her republican challenger adam kinzinger i am running for congress because of my grand kids. i have one of them right here in the audience. i want to work for a better future, not only for them, but for all of you, your children, and your grandchildren as well. we want to see that they will have the same opportunities that we had. we have achieved a lot over the past two years. we are seeing the economy began to recover. we have a lot more to do. we need to continue moving forward and we are seeing signs of progress. however, if you're a person without a job, there's still a crisis and we need to do everything we can to get things back on track for you. one of the things that i have done to help his hammer out a deal for the new intermodal facility in juliet. there are a lot of jobs being created there. there are construction jobs. we are seeing a lot of shipping containers coming in with goods from all over the world. but what i really believe is that what we need to do now is fill those containers with american goods and s