I am disappointed with the recent Northern Star “fluff” interview with our new Republican Congressman Randy Hultgren.

This is a fellow who wishes to abolish the U.S. Department of Education and cut the EPA, opposes regulation of the big banks, voted against health care reform while receiving generous family health care from the taxpayers, and wants to privatize Social Security for his Wall Street friends.

Hultgren should have been asked who funded his campaign and his advocacy groups. Was it the same billionaires who are trying to undo the New Deal and our social safety net? The public needs to know more about his ideas than about his personal life.

Stephen Reid

NIU alumnus, DeKalb County Board member

DeKalb resident