Mark Kirk during campaign at Navistar headquarters town hall event. (Photo by Lynn Sweet)
Illinois senator-elect Mark Kirk will be sworn in on Nov. 29, starting his new Senate career early to fill the remainder of President Barack Obama's original Senate term. Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) tenure ends when Kirk is sworn in. Kirk sent out a save-the-date on Monday:
Please Save the Date
For a Reception Celebrating the Swearing-In of:
Mark Steven Kirk
United States Senator
Monday, November 29, 2010
Washington, DC
Invitation and Details to Follow
Lynn Sweet is a columnist and the Washington Bureau Chief for the 
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congraulations. please help all of us that are on employment although we would love to have a job instead of the unemployment the jobs are not enough to go around yet. dont punish us especially at this time of the year by not extending unemployment benefits PLEASE help extend unemployment benefits and concentrate on creating ALOT of jobs.
VOTE NO on DREAM ACT
NO MAJOR VOTES SHOULD BE TAKEN UNTIL NEW MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE SEATED IN JANUARY WITH THE EXCEPTION OF BUSH TAX CUTS FOR ALL AMERICANS
AND ANYTHING DEFENSE
DON'T GIVE IN TO THE OLD MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
I have been unable to find an email address of Mr. Kirk. I will keep serarching, In the meantime I am writing you in hopes you can get the message to Mark Kirk
My father was part of the 101st Airborne that was rescued by Gen. Patton. My stepfather was injured in WW II and was a career milittary. My father-in-law served in the Pacific in WWII. I had four uncles who served in the military during WWII ,one was a piloit that was a prisoner of War. I had friends who served in Viet Nam. My wife who is a teacher has had former students killed in the current war situations.
I actually was in the army reserve like Mr. Kirk and I would never try to compare myself to people who actually served in combat duty. That is like trying to compare yourself to heroeswhen you are not even desrving to be in that category.
The fact that Mark Kirk lied about his combat military record is the most disgusting, disrespectful, and lowlife thing I can possibley imagine. How a person of that character can possiblly be a leader of this country is unbelieveable.
Mark Kirk should be totally ashamed of himself. I hope his mother and father are proud of him, because I am certainly not.
In my opinion, his lieing about his record could be one of the lowest things a person coulld possibly do. I just cannot imagine how people could vote for a person with absolutely no intergrity or character like Mark Kirk.
If you could please forward to this to the lowlife know as Mark Kirk
Barry L. Shaw