As a member of the executive committee of the Champaign County Democratic Party, I have heard my fellow executive committee members decry what they consider to be Steve Beckett's and Barb Wysocki's lack of support for the Democratic Party's positions on the county board.
I couldn't help but wonder if it's true that Wysocki and Beckett are bad Democrats. In order to find out, I analyzed the vote count for about 300 contested county board votes, spanning 2003-2005.
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