18th CD's U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock is featured this weekend in a Daily Caller bio, where the reporter describes him as "Alex P Keaton all grown up," when reviewing how Schock got started into business when in fifth grade and into politics just out of high school.
He views himself as a Ronald Reagan/Jack Kemp hybrid, with Reagan’s conservatism and Kemp’s chutzpah. “When I was in the state Capitol I had a very Democratic district, had the most Democratic district in Illinois, outside of Chicago. It had never been held by a Republican until I won it and beat an eight-year incumbent to get there. In my district there were 40,000 voters, 20,000 on food stamps, a huge union presence and my effort was, ‘Look, you don’t have to agree with me, I just want a forum. I just want to tell you why I’m running and see if we cant agree on some issues.’ And what I found was I could vote against things like the raising minimum wage … and go back and explain to them why it didn’t make sense to raise the cost of labor, what it meant to the jobs and the economic activity in the area and they understood it.”
