Endorsements
Below is a partial list of citizens who have endorsed Bill's campaign for Congress.
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Why I'm Endorsing Bill
"His background and experience makes him a fine candidate. Moreover, in the 21st century, Congress needs to have some scientists as members! "
- Dudley Herschbach
Nobel Prize Winner
"Bill knows that we need to change Washington so there is less bickering and more problem solving. His background as a businessman and scientist makes him just the man to bring about that change."
- Mayor Jim Burke
"A scientist with the credentials of Bill Foster can bring back reason and expertise to the political discussion in our country. I am very happy about his decision to run for the US Congress."
- Johann Deisenhofer
Nobel Prize Winner
"The security of the US in the 21st century requires business, scientific, and engineering solutions as well as military and political. It's essential for our national leadership to be able to tell the difference between truth and false promises. Bill has already shown his talents and he would make a big difference to the safety of our nation."
- John Mather
Nobel Prize Winner
"He will be an intelligent and effective member of Congress."
- Norman F. Ramsey
Nobel Prize Winner
"If you’re concerned about ending the war, restoring fiscal sanity, and a more constructive approach on health care, Bill is your candidate."
- State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias
"I am pleased to support Bill Foster in his run for the Congress. As a person with scientific and technical background, he can analyze the large fraction of our national decisions that involve technical issues and work out sensible solutions. Often we seem to be responding to the loudest argumentation, rather than the most thoughtful and suitable propositions."
- John Hall
Nobel Prize Winner
"Bill Foster represents a calm and enlightened voice for science and for reasonable government. We need both if our country is to recover from the past period of anti-intellectualism and partisan bickering. I believe that Bill is a candidate that all citizens can get behind."
- Peter Agre
Nobel Prize Winner
"Bill Foster is the type of voice we need in Washington to bring real change to families here in Illinois. His background as a scientist and a businessman gives him the ability to take a fresh look at the challenges our country faces. I'm proud to give him my support."
- State Comptroller Dan Hynes
"Bill understands that we must continue to bring about change in Washington if we’re going to solve the problems of our day – both foreign and domestic."
- U.S. Representative Phil Hare
Newspapers
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Tribune
Daily Herald
Elgin Courier News
Northern Star (NIU)
March 8 Special Election
Aurora Beacon News
Chicago Tribune
DeKalb Daily Chronicle
Kane County Chronicle
Kendall County Record/Oswego Ledger-Sentinel
Pioneer Press (Algonquin Countryside)
Elected Officials
Richard Durbin, U.S. Senator
Barack Obama, U.S. Senator
Phil Hare, U.S. Representative
Patrick Murphy, U.S. Representative
Dan Hynes, State Comptroller
Alexi Giannoulias, State Treasurer
Michael Noland, IL State Senator
Linda Chapa LaVia, IL State Representative
Chuck Brown, Alderman, Geneva
Henry Abarbanel, Council Member, Del Mar
Valerie Burd, Mayor of Yorkville
Jim Burke, Mayor of Dixon
Kris Povlsen, Mayor of DeKalb
Jeffrey Schielke, Mayor of Batavia
Ed Schock, Mayor of Elgin
Thomas Weisner, Mayor of Aurora
Gerald Jones, Kane County Board member
John T. Hulseberg, DeKalb County Board member
Bonnie Lee Kunkel, Kane County Board member
Ron Matekaitis, DeKalb County State's Attorney
Clint Carey, Pingree Grove Village President
Marilyn Michelini, Montgomery Village President
Eileen Phipps, Wayne Village President
Stephen Pickett, Sleepy Hollow Village President
William Sarto, Carpentersville Village President
Jim Murphy, Aurora Township Supervisor
Paul Greviskes, Kane County Board Member
Holly Kissane, Kane County Board Member
Roger Ness, former Mayor of Newark
Rudy Neuberger, Kane County Board member
Robert Rosemier, DeKalb County Board member
Terry Kessler, Alderperson, Sycamore
Mike Saville, Alderman, Aurora
Jim Volk, Alderman, Batavia
Joe Plocher, Alderman, Yorkville
Annie Craig, Trustee, Aurora Township
John Shoemaker, Trustee, Aurora Township
Organizations
AFSCME State Council 31
Associated Fire Fighters of Illinois
Citizen Action/Illinois Policy Council
Democratic Women of DuPage County
Elgin Trades Council
Illinois AFL-CIO
Illinois Education Association
Illinois Federation of Teachers
Illinois Planned Parenthood Council
Illinois UAW
League of Conservation Voters
National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU)
NARAL Pro-Choice America
National Committee to Preserve Social Security
and Medicare
Ronald J. Schultz Memorial Foundation
SEIU Illinois Council
Sierra Club
United Hellenic Voters of America
Citizens
Adam Abrams
Xochi Adame
Gloria Alexander
Kirk Arndt
Alex Arroyo
Carrie Auwaerter
Julie Axelsen
Linda Balensiefen
Peter Banahoski
Wink Bangs
Robert Banke
Sonia Barajas
Timothy Barnes
Larry Bartoszek
Elaine Bennett
Michael Bennett
Terry Bermes
Colette Bertand
Kristie Blunt
Kevin Bock
James Bradley
Vincent Brandys
Richard Brei
Isie Brindley
Thomas Browder
Bruce Bunker
Tom Butler
Fran Caffee
Matthew Campise
Amanda Carne
Don Carpenter
Emmett Cartwright
Bill Catching
Harold Cattron
Jean Cattron
Patricia Caviness
Gail Chibucos
Matthew Chlebanowski
Yu-Chung Cheng
Donnell Collins
Thomas Collins
Ronald Cook
Lou Dalmonte
Olivia Diaz
Elizabeth Doherty
Bridget Dooley
Malcolm Dow
Lucy Dubas
Sarah Ebner
Jennifer Ekey
Christi Elizarraraz
Don Engel
Larry Falko
Matt Farmer
Debby Fay
Lynn Fazekas
Lee Fazzari
Cameron Fischer
Alexander Freeman
Gwen Gaglione
Broc Golden
Marilyn Griffin
Art Hambach
Chris Heffernan
John Heneghan
Eric Holmes
Michael Hrycyk
Christie Hurley
Matthew Jabczynski
Monica Jenkins
Richard Kaiser
Howard Katz
Ali Khan
Alex Kellie
Hillary Kowalski
Sharad Kumar
Joyce Laben
Robbin Lang
Glendora Lanning
Paula Lauer
Paul Lebrun
Kenneth Legan Sr.
Deborah Liebzeit
Maria Lofton
Ron Lofton
Karl Lonngren
Michael Lowery
Susan Lubonovich
Doug May
John McCarten
Crystal McCaster
Joanne McCrory
Scott Mendeloff
C. Leon Miller
Paul Miller
Wes Morrissey
Andres Morton Zimmerman
Sekazi Mtingwa
Ben Mundel
Paul Olderr
Chris Ott
Brett Palmer
Abby Pariser
Sandip Pakvasa
Julie Parker
Roger Passman
Jim Paulin
Linda Pille
Erin Platt
Georgina Poole
Pierre Ramond
John Rasmussen
Austin Real
Jack Reich
Wren Roberts
Aaron Rogers
Jim Rogers
Tim Rogers
Roberto Romero
Dawn Root
Lisa Roscoe
Scott Roscoe
Thomas Rossing
Arline Roth
Al Russell
Ed Rzeppa
Meadow Sabelko
Hector Sandoval
Emily Savin
Kristine Scala
Jody Schmeck
Mary Schneider
Sean Schultz
Mary Ellen Segraves
Scott Sell
Jim Shales
Peter Sheldon
Tom Shields
Jeanne Sigman
Vladimir Sirotenko
Kevin Smith
Dacia Soulliere
Stephen Steadman
Cynthia Steimle
Paul Suffredin
Kathy Sullivan
Eugene Tester
Sylvia Tester
Alan Thiesen
Joseph Thome
Bradley Torppey
Anthony Tressel
Seth Tucker
Fred Ullrich
Robert Wands
Aimee Weaver
Ed Weiss
Nancy Weiss
Brent Welder
David Welsh
Dave Werle
Deborah Willhite
R. Stanley Williams
Alice Woldt
Vladimir Zelevinsky
Nobel Prize Winners
Alexei Abrikosov
Peter Agre
James W Cronin
Johann Deisenhofer
Jerome Friedman
Sheldon Glashow
Roy Glauber
David Gross
Roger Guillemin
John Hall
Herbert Hauptman
Alan Heeger
Dudley Herschbach
Ronald Hoffmann
Wolfgang Ketterle
Walter Kohn
Herbert Kroemer
Harold Kroto
Leon Lederman
T.D. Lee
Anthony Leggett
John Mather
Douglas Osheroff
Martin Perl
David Politzer
Norman F. Ramsey
Sherwood Rowland
George Smoot
Joseph Taylor
Frank Wilczek
Scientists
Stephen Adler
Guenter Ahlers
Justin Albert
Dan Amidei
David Arnett
Harut Avagyan
Blake Aycock
Birger Back
Robert Balluffi
John Barnard
Ted Barnes
Bruce Barnett
J. Frederick Bartlett
Albert Bartlett
Nathan Beard
Jonathan Berg
Morris Binkley
Eric Bittner
Arie Bodek
Arno Bohm
Lev Boulaevskii
Richard Breedon
Roy Briere
Dieter Brill
Collin Broholm
Ian Brown
Patricia Burchat
Janice Button-Shafer
Nina Byers
Manuel Calderon de la Barca
Michele Carter
Roberto Car
Marco Cavaglia
Michael Chanowitz
Roman Chepulskyy
Brajesh Choudhary
David Christian
Andrey Chubukov
Tony Close
William Danchi
Jerome Dancis
Cary Davids
Stanley Deser
Edward Eyler
Ben Ferguson
Arthur Freeman
Alex Friedman
Robert Field
Peter Freund
Brian Fujikawa
Richard Gaitskell
Joseph Gall
Umesh Garg
Timothy Gay
Howard Georgi
Morgan Giddings
David Goldstein
Jordan Goodman
James Griffin
David Groisser
Martin Gruebele
John Gunion
Susan Hagness
Thomas Hanlon
David Hammer
James Harris
Ronald Hart
John Harvey
Robert Haselkorn
John Hauptman
Wick Haxton
Hatim Hegab
Ulrich Heinz
Kenneth Heller
Caroline Herzenberg
Franz Himpsel
Georg Hoffstaetter
Pierre Hohenberg
Carlos Hojvat
Hugh Hudson
Joe Incandela
Arthur Jaffe
Robert L. Jaffe
Stephen Jardin
Lawrence Jones
Steven Juliano
Claude Kacser
Leo Kadanoff
David Kaplan
Allan Kaufman
Karl Kelley
John King
Rami Kishek
Victor Korenman
Ashutosh Kotwal
Dmytro Kovalskyi
Lawrence Krauss
Herbert Kroemer
Stephen J. Kron
Andreas Kronfield
Julius Kuti
Sabine Lammers
Richard Lander
William Lee
Matthew Levinson
Eugene Levy
David Lynch
Elliott Lieb
Don Lincoln
Tony Liss
Kendall Mahn
Ernest Malamud
Meinhard Mayer
Gerald Miller
Charles W. Misner
Jay Mittenthal
W.E. Moerner
Kenneth Moffeit
Jonathan D. Moreno
Forrest Mozer
Lynn Nadel
Uriel Nauenberg
Bill Nellis
Ezra Newman
James Norem
Filomena Nunes
Joe Ozelis
Robert Owen
Justin Parsons
Bruce Patterson
Thomas Phillips
Steven Pinker
Joseph Poon
Krishna Rajagopal
S.G. Rajeev
Regina Rameika
Hamish Robertson
Subir Sachdev
James Sauls
Jonas Schultz
John Scofield
Jonathan Selinger
Savdeep Sethi
John Sheffield
Marc Sher
Abner Shimony
Horst Simon
Alexander Smits
Michael Smith
Henry Sobel
Bruce Solka
Josef Spalenka
Theodore Steck
Lawrence Sulak
Jeremiah Sullivan
Matthew Szydagis
Cyrus Taylor
Alexandre Telnov
Richard Temkin
Harold Ticho
Jerrold Turner
William C Turner
Richard Van Berg
Jatila van der Veen-Davis
Gary Varner
Mikko Voutilainen
Jim Walker
Risa Wechsler
Johannes Weertman
Ray Weil
Elon Weintraub
Rainer Weiss
William Wester
John Weymouth
Steven White
Gary Williams
Thomas Witten
Stanley Wojcicki
Wayne Wozniak
Victor Yakovenko
Vladamir Zelevinsky
Businesspersons
Rolland Johnson
Andrew Schriever