Global Solutions PAC Endorses Tom Geoghegan

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Global Solutions PAC Endorses Tom Geoghegan for Democrat in Illinois Fifth District

Global Solutions PAC, the affiliated PAC of Citizens for Global Solutions, is pleased to announce that it has endorsed Tom Geoghegan in the race for Illinois' Fifth District Congressional seat. We believe that Mr. Geoghegan best supports the ideals and positions that our network of 50,000 members and supporters stand for -- furthering international peace, justice and the rule of law. Mr. Geoghegan's positions in support of: U.S. participation in the International Criminal Court; binding international climate change agreements; increasing U.S. security by strengthening multilateral institutions like the UN; and increased U.S. participation in U.N. peacekeeping missions make us confident that he will work to make the U.S. safe and secure. In 2006 and in 2008, Global Solutions PAC supported U.S. Congressman Rahm Emanuel when he ran for this seat; we are proud to endorse Tom Geoghegan to be his successor.

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About Tom

Tom attended Harvard University, where he worked for the student newspaper, The Crimson. Despite his burgeoning career in journalism, Tom soon felt the call of public service, so he left his position at The New Republic to enter Harvard Law School (his roommate there was the future U.S. senator Charles Schumer). Upon his graduation in 1975, he began what was to be his life’s work, his career as a public interest attorney.

Tom’s first job out of law school was with the Legal Department of the United Mine Workers (UMW) in Washington D.C. As he recounts in the book he wrote about being a labor lawyer, Which Side Are You On? (which has been deemed a “classic”), among the cases he worked on was the strike by the Harlan County, Kentucky UMW local against Duke Power Company — a struggle which was portrayed in the famous documentary film, Harlan County, USA. The legal and political strategies Tom and his fellow lawyers devised played a key role in winning that strike.

From 1977 to 1979, Tom was a policy analyst for the U.S. Department of Energy. Working with Secretary James Schlesinger and Assistant Secretary for Policy Alvin Alm, Tom was the editor in chief of the groundbreaking National Energy Plan II. He also drafted several energy-related Congressional proposals submitted by the Carter Administration, including one bill that eventually became a law mandating state energy conservation programs. For his efforts, he earned an award for outstanding service as a Department of Energy employee.

In 1979, Tom moved to Chicago, where he joined Despres, Schwartz, and Geoghegan. Tom has filed suits in a wide variety of public interest, labor, and employment law cases. He has successfully represented countless individuals who were discriminated against in the workplace due to their race, sex, disability, age, or sexual orientation, and he has sued employers who violated sexual harassment laws and the Family and Medical Leave Act. He has also filed lawsuits to enforce child labor laws, expand voting rights, crack down on the payday loan industry, and require public health measures to stop the spread of tuberculosis among the homeless.

About Citizens for Global Solutions and Global Solutions PAC

Citizens for Global Solutions is a nationwide organization that works to make the U.S. a leader in world affairs, by increasing its involvement in international organizations. We believe that countries can best solve global problems by working together to find global solutions; therefore, we work to build political will in the United States to ensure that our leaders work with our friends and allies to make the world a safer and better place for everyone. We are confident that these are views which are shared by the majority of Americans, and the success PAC has confirmed this. We endorsed 183 candidates in the 2008 elections; 160 of them were victorious. We look forward to adding Tom Geoghegan's name to that list.