On October 17, 2010, Democrat Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky and her Republican challenger, Joel Pollak, faced off before a largely Jewish audience in Chicago to address Israel-specific foreign policy issues. After the forum was over, we attempted to ask both candidates a number of questions unrelated to, and indirectly raised during the Candidates’ Forum. While Mr. Pollak was more than willing to answer our questions, Representative Schakowsky refused to comment.
UPDATE: Marathon Pundit visited Schakowsky in Skokie yesterday. She is under a citizen journalist microscope right now.
[...] while covering the Schakowsky-Pollak congressional race last year on behalf of Big Government, Founding Bloggers and Adam Sharp of Sharp Elbows had the temerity to ask Representative Schakowsky some basic [...]