Currently Joe Walsh has a lead of 350 votes over Melissa Bean for the 8th Congressional seat. That margin has come from the counting of absentee and provisional ballots from Schaumburg, Palatine and Barrington townships.

Officials in Lake and McHenry counties will wait until November 16th to begin counting provisional votes and absentee ballots that arrived after the November 2nd election.

With the bulk of Cook County votes counted, and the remaining uncounted votes in Lake and Mchenry where Joe Walsh received the majority of his lead, this should give him a commanding and final lead after November 16th.

This will then finally give the 8th District a member in Congress that truly represents the citizens of the community. The citizens of the 8th District will also hold Mr. Walsh to his campaign promises. We will no longer tolerate the lack of representation in Congress that our past two members in Congress gave us. We as other parts of the country called out for on election night, want smaller government and less interference from government in our lives. We want government to stop the runaway spending and not burden our children and grandchildren with debt.

Do you hear us Joe?