You can find Al's answers to each of the seven questions asked by WOOD TV by clicking on the question below to watch the video:

• Why are you running for Michigan State Senate?
• Do you support a repeal of the Single Business Tax?
• What is the single most important issue facing the state and your district?
• Do you support raising taxes to pay for essential services like schools and public safety?
• Do you support the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative?
• Are you in favor of a ballot initiative that would guarantee school funding?
• Should the state increase revenue sharing to cities?

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The Rockford Independent

“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in polities or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.” – Thomas Jefferson

Please...read that again...This Jefferson quote is particularly relevant to my letter. Jefferson foresaw the dramatic polarization we experience today, down to the smallest villages in our country. The candidate forum, held by the Rockford Area Chamber of Commerce on June 5, 2006 turned out to be a Republican candidate forum after Albert Abbasse, the Democratic candidate for the 28th district was invited and then uninvited. (READ MORE...)