Press Release: Reichel Admonishes Quigley’s Foreign Policy Credentials

Reichel Admonishes Quigley's Lack of Leadership on Foreign Policy

In a statement released over the July 4th weekend, Green Party Congressional candidate Matt Reichel has lambasted sitting Democratic Congressman, Mike Quigley, for his lack of courage and leadership on foreign policy issues. Reichel said:

"Mike Quigley campaigned as a reformer in last year’s special election, though his record in Congress has been defined by a lack of sufficient political courage to challenge this nation’s disastrous foreign policy status quo."

Reichel, who lived in France for four years while obtaining his graduate degree in Foreign Policy and Diplomacy, continued:

"When Quigley disparaged me before the City Club last year for referring to Israel as an “Apartheid State,” he demonstrated an incredible naiveté and willingness to pander to the conventional wisdom of the War Party in Washington. A large majority of the planet sees marked parallels between the racist and xenophobic policies of the current Israeli government and those of the old regime in South Africa. Palestinians and other Arabs in Israel are afforded fewer jobs, social protections and civil liberties, while being perpetually exposed to a violent and grossly disproportional military onslaught by the American-supported Israel army.

"While Quigley is busy congratulating the Security Council for administering a one-sided regime of sanctions on Iran, and referring to a largely fictional war with “Hamas terrorists,” I have been busy proposing pro-active solutions to this nation’s great epidemic of violence. I see the connections between our foreign policy, the war profiteers who sell it, and the war parties who profit from it. I am willing to challenge the reliance of our two-party system on violence. Furthermore, I am ready to fight for a 50% reduction in pentagon spending, so as to invest in an ambitious Green Works project, creating 10 million new Green jobs, while greatly expanding out public rail network a decreasing our reliance on fossil fuels.

Quigley poses as an environmentalist, but lacks the courage to stand up to a foreign policy establishment that deepens this nation’s reliance on oil, while creating an enormous ecological imprint through the use of automated and aerial units. Furthermore, he has failed to propose a far-reaching and ambitious plan such as my “Green Works Project.” He has failed to challenge conventional wisdom in Washington, and one would expect no different from a former disciple of machine Alderman Bernie Hansen."