BC: Your opponent, Congressman Shimkus, once advocated for term-limits, and even set an informal term limit on himself to serve only 12 years in Congress. Once given the opportunity, however, he betrayed this promise and he is now on his 20th year in Congress. I have two questions on this topic. Do you support term-limits? And how will you differ from career politicians such as Congressman Shimkus?

Carl Spoerer: The downside to term limits is that it will give lobbyists more power over junior representatives as the learning curve can take a few years. If we lose the knowledge base of senior representatives it could also have unintended negative effects. I do like the concept of term limits, but I would have to study it further to fully support it. However, I fully support limiting the amount of time any one representative can sit on a particular committee.

I differ from a career politician because I am a working class person who also suffers from all of the waste and corruption. Career politicians tend to quit listening to the people and cater more to their corporate donors. I won’t ignore the working class. I am 54 years old and have 15 years or so to leave a positive imprint on the world, to make my family proud of our name, but more importantly, to change the prospects for 750,000 hard working folks. This is our time, it will not be squandered.