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The Fylde ( /ˈfaɪld/); Scandinavian: "field") is a coastal plain in western Lancashire, England. It is roughly a 13-mile (20-kilometre) square-shaped peninsula, bounded by Morecambe Bay to the north, the Ribble estuary to the south, the Irish Sea to the west, and the Bowland hills to the east. The eastern boundary is approximately the location of the M6 motorway.

It is a flat, alluvial plain; parts were once dug for peat, and it is the western part of an area formerly known as Amounderness.

The west coast is almost entirely urban, containing the towns of Fleetwood, Cleveleys, Blackpool and Lytham St Annes, with Thornton, Carleton and Poulton-le-Fylde not far inland. This area forms the Blackpool Urban Area. The central southern part of the Fylde includes the smaller towns of Kirkham and Wesham. The rest of the Fylde is rural, containing villages that include Freckleton, Warton, Wrea Green, Great Eccleston, Hambleton, Knott End and Pilling.

The River Wyre meanders across the Fylde from Garstang on the eastern edge, westwards towards Poulton and then northwards to the sea at Fleetwood. The area north and east of the tidal Wyre, known as Over Wyre, is the more rural side of the river. The Fylde is roughly trisected by the M55 motorway and A586 road.

The Borough of Fylde is a local government area covering the south of the Fylde plain. The rest is covered by the boroughs of Wyre and Blackpool to the north and west respectively. The local justice area covering all of the Fylde is called Fylde Coast.

See also[link]

• Fylde Rugby Club

External links[link]

• Over-Wyre and Knott End History and Topography
• Marine life of the Fylde coast
• "History of the Fylde of Lancashire" (1876), by John Porter - full text on-line
• Fylde News and History Portal

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Dave Pegg (born 2 November 1947) is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer, arguably most visible as a bass guitarist. He is the longest-serving member of the pre-eminent electric folk band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of important folk and rock groups including The Ian Campbell Folk Group and Jethro Tull. He has appeared on some of the most significant albums of his era, as well as undertaking solo projects. His style of playing bass has been particularly influential in electric folk music.

History[link]

Early career[link]

David Pegg was born on 2 November 1947, at Acocks Green, Birmingham, England.^[1] He began to learn guitar when fourteen or fifteen, inspired by The Shadows, and played in a school band at Yardley Grammar school.^[2]

After leaving school he worked as an insurance clerk for about a year while playing in a part-time bands the Crawdaddys and The Roy Everett Blues Band, who supported several performers from the flourishing Birmingham beat scene of the time, including the Spencer Davis Group and The Moody Blues.^[3] In 1966 he auditioned for The Uglys, featuring Steve Gibbons and was beaten to the position by friend and guitarist Roger Hill, but was offered the job of bass guitarist and switched instruments.^[3]

The Uglys cut one single before Pegg and Hill left to form a blues trio, The Exception, with singer Alan Eastwood. At this period he played with Robert Plant and in his next band, The Way of Life, the drummer was John Bonham, later both went to form Led Zeppelin. In 1967 he joined the Ian Campbell Folk Group, where he switched to stand-up bass, learnt to play the mandolin and acquired his affection for folk music. It was also where he came to the attention of local folk guitarist Ralph McTell and former Campbell Group and future Fairport Convention member Dave Swarbrick.^[3]

By early 1969 he had moved back to electric bass with The Beast, with Cozy Powell and Dave Clempson, before the latter left for Colosseum. One week after seeing Fairport for the first time on his twenty-first birthday he was called by Swarbrick to audition for the band after the departure of Ashley Hutchings, who was soon to found Steeleye Span.^[3]

Fairport Convention 1969-79[link]

Pegg joined Fairport Convention towards the end of 1969 and immediately formed a strong playing partnership with drummer Dave Mattacks and good relationships with the other members. Although Hutchings had been a solid and melodic bass player, it is generally acknowledged that Pegg played with greater virtuosity, complexity and energy.^[3] Ashley Hutchings credits Pegg with being the musician that began the technique of playing jigs and reels on the bass, rather than just a supportive bass line, which was subsequently adopted by most electric folk and even folk punk bassists.^[4] All this was immediately obvious on the 1970 tour of Britain and America (including support for Jethro Tull), recordings from which surfaced on the Live at the L.A. Troubadour album (1977). His first album with the group, Full House (1970), is considered by some commentators to be their most accomplished in musical terms, and this clearly owed something to the new bassist.^[5]

On joining the band Pegg had moved his family from Birmingham and into the former pub, the Angel in Hadham, Hertfordshire along with other group members and their families.^[5] This became the theme for the title track of the next album Angel Delight (1971), for which Pegg received his first writing credit. On the next album Babbacombe Lee, a folk-rock opera masterminded by Swarbrick, he played a much greater role, contributing to seven of the fifteen tracks.^[6] The next album Rosie contained three of his contributions, including the song Peggy's Pub a statement of a lifelong ambition.^[7]

In 1971 when Simon Nicol and Dave Mattacks left the band, Pegg and Swarbrick were the only remaining members and, as a bewildering succession of personnel came (or returned) and left again over the next five years, their partnership was critical in keeping the band running.^[8] Some of these performers, like Sandy Denny and her husband Trevor Lucas, were acknowledged songwriters and as a result, although he still made contributions and took part in collaborations, Pegg's song-writing took a back seat to his instrumental and organisational skills.^[9] After the financial disaster that followed the Rising for the Moon (1975) tour, which prompted Denny, Lucas and Jerry Donahue to quit the band, Pegg became increasingly determined for the group to take control of their finances and direction and took over a larger and larger responsibility.^[2] Pegg and Swarbrick renewed contact with Nicol in 1975 forming a low key trio, Three Desperate Mortgages, which toured student venues across Britain.^[10][11]

With only Pegg, Swarbrick and replacement drummer Bruce Rowland left, they persuaded Nicol to rejoin the band during the Gottle O'Geer album sessions. The remaining quartet signed up with Vertigo, and produced two albums, The Bonny Bunch of Roses (1977) and Tipplers Tales (1978). These were the albums in the group's discography that made the most use of traditional material, which accounted for all the songs except for instrumentals by Pegg. Although well crafted these albums did not sell well and Vertigo bought them out of their contract.^[12] With Swarbrick suffering acute hearing problems and with no recording contract the group decided to disband and played a final concert at Cropredy in Oxfordshire on 4 August 1979, close to where Pegg lived.^[13]

While with Fairport, Pegg had played on a wide variety and huge number of albums for other performers. Among the most significant were: Nick Drake's Bryter Layter (1970); John Martin's Solid Air (1973) and One World (1977), as well as work for current and ex-Fairporters, including several albums for Dave Swarbrick, on Sandy Denny's Like an Old Fashioned Waltz (1973) and Rendezvous (1977) and Richard Thompson's Pour Down Like Silver (1975). He appeared on three Ralph McTell albums, including Streets (1973), and Slide Aside the Screen (1976), which Pegg also produced. He could confidently look forward to more session work and production would play a much greater role in his career once Fairport had disbanded.

Woodworm and Jethro Tull 1980-1985[link]

Although Fairport had disbanded they continued to play annual reunions at Cropredy, supplemented by New Year's gigs in minor locations and occasional larger European festivals.^[14] Because no record label was interested in putting out recordings of the Cropredy concerts, Pegg and his wife Christine established their own label, Woodworm Records. They released the final concert as the album Farewell, Farewell (1979) and subsequent recordings were issued as ‘official bootlegs’. He had already established a small recording studio in his house and with the money from the end of the record deal with Vertigo, he was able to develop this and it was eventually moved to a nearby converted chapel. The result was that Pegg had his own recording facility and record label. Artists like Steve Ashley began to record albums there from 1979. The Peggs established a mailing list of fans of the band, critical in keeping interest in Fairport alive and, particularly Christine, took over the organization of the Cropredy Festival, which grew in size every year to reach about 18,000 attendees by the mid 1980s.^[15]

In 1979 Ian Anderson invited Pegg to stand in for the ailing John Glascock on the Jethro Tull, Stormwatch tour. After Glascock’s death, Pegg was invited to join the band, still one of the biggest in the world, and it provided very welcome paid employment for Pegg for the next fifteen years.^[2] Pegg happened to join at a turning point for Jethro Tull. His first recording was intended as a solo album for Anderson, involving only Martin Barre from the band. The album, A (1980) was in stark contrast to the medieval and folk music inspired previous work, depending heavily on synthesizers for its sound. At this time all the other longstanding members left the band and the recording was put out as a Jethro Tull album. Pegg coped with this, and subsequent changes of style, seemingly with little difficulty. The next album, Broadsword and the Beast (1982) had a heavier sound and more medieval theme and Pegg joined the band on stage in pseudo-medieval costume beside a Viking ship.^[16] In 1983 Pegg recorded his first solo album, The Cocktail Cowboy Goes It Alone (1983). After the next Tull album, Under Wraps (1984), Anderson’s vocal problems forced him to retire from touring for three years and Pegg had more time to pursue other projects.^[17]

Reforming Fairport 1985-95[link]

In 1981 Pegg joined Ralph McTell and ex-Fairport members, Richard Thompson and Dave Mattacks in the GPs (an abbreviation for the 'Grazed Pontiffs', after a comment by Dave Mattacks following the attempted assassination of the Pope). The aim was for a pub band, playing a few originals and blues, rock n’ roll, soul and country standards. They only gave six performances, included the Fairport reunion festival in 1981 (at Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire), which Woodworm Records released a recording of the performance as Saturday Rolling Around (1991).^[18] In the 1980s he also appeared on several recordings by major folk artists, including Murray Head and Dick Gaughan, besides those by Fairport and ex-Fairport members Simon Nicol and Richard Thompson.

In 1985 Pegg, Nicol and Mattacks were also free and the trio decided to make an album of new material for the band to play at the Cropredy Festival, using the Woodworm studio and label. The result was Gladys' Leap (1985), which was generally well received in the music and national press, but caused some tension with Swarbrick who refused to play any of the new material at the 1985 Cropredy Festival. Nevertheless the decision to reform the band, without Swarbrick, was taken by the other three remaining members. Ric Sanders was invited to join, along with guitarist, composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist Maartin Allcock.^[19] Pegg was now in two major bands at the same time. The reformed Fairport produced an instrumental album Expletive Delighted (1986), mainly designed to showcase the virtuosity of Sanders and Allcock.^[20]

In 1987 Jethro Tull produced their first album for three years, Crest of a Knave, to which Pegg contributed and this was to be followed by an American tour, on which Anderson invited Fairport to support Jethro Tull. Needing an album to promote, Pegg negotiated financial support from Island Records and Fairport put together In Real Time (1987).^[2] This was presented as a live album, but was actually a studio recording (albeit with all the songs recorded "as live" with all the musicians playing at the same time) with dubbed audience reactions.^[21] Although the tour was musically rewarding, it was unproductive financially and Pegg, being in both bands, left the stage with one band to return after a few minutes with the other, and the process was inevitably exhausting.^[2] Pegg played on three more Jethro Tull studio albums: Rock Island (1989), Catfish Rising (1991) and Roots to Branches (1995). In the same period he contributed to three studio albums by Fairport Convention: Red and Gold (1989) the Five Seasons (1990) and Jewel in the Crown (1995).^[22] Fairport’s popularity and the scale of their tours were growing throughout this period and the strain of undertaking two jobs, plus his other commitments, was becoming too much and he decided to leave Tull and focus on Fairport.^[23]

Focusing on Fairport 1995-present[link]

Dave Pegg with guitarist Richard Thompson (pictured at left) at Fairport's Cropredy Convention, 2005

Part of the result of this change was a higher output of albums for Fairport Convention, with five studio albums from the acoustic Old New Borrowed Blue (1996) to Over the Next Hill (2004), beside four live albums and compilations. Pegg also released his second solo album Birthday Party (1998), which combined recordings from a celebratory concert for his fiftieth birthday at Dudley Town Hall with studio recordings.^[24]

In 1998, Pegg formed The Dylan Project, a Bob Dylan tribute band with Simon Nicol, PJ Wright, Steve Gibbons, and Gerry Conway. In 2006, Nicol was replaced by Birmingham keyboard player Phil Bond. They tour annually in the autumn and have produced two studio albums and a live album recorded at Cropredy Festival.^[25]

In 2004 Pegg and his wife Christine divorced. The Woodworm studio was sold, and a new record label, Matty Grooves was established for the band and the group as a whole now organises the Cropredy Festival, now called Fairport's Cropredy Convention.^[26]

Pegg also formed Peggy & PJ, a duo with guitarist PJ Wright, who had been lead guitar with the Steve Gibbons Band, touring smaller venues and producing an album Galileo's Apology in 2007, a collection of pop and folk-rock songs and instrumentals.^[27] Pegg also had a second ‘birthday bash’ at Birmingham Town Hall, released as Dave Pegg's 60th Birthday Bash (2008).^[28]

In 2007 a major retrospective of Pegg’s career was launched. A Box of Pegg's contained four CDs, summarizing his work with Fairport Convention, Crawdaddy, Richard Thompson, Mike Heron, Steve Ashley, Jethro Tull, The Ian Campbell Folk Group and others.^[29]

Since 2010 he plays as soon as he can, in France, with the Breton band Red Cardell.

Pegg now lives in Banbury, Oxfordshire.^[24] He has a daughter, Stephanie, who works as a PR consultant: his son, Matt Pegg, is a bassist who has played with, among others, Procol Harum and Francis Dunnery.^[30]

Public recognition[link]

In 2002 Dave Pegg shared with other Fairport Convention members in the coveted ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ at the 2002 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. At the 2007 awards Pegg shared with Fairport Convention and the late Sandy Denny an award for ‘Favourite Folk Track Of All Time’ for ‘Who Knows Where the Time Goes?’.^[31]

Discography[link]

For Fairport Convention albums see Fairport Convention discography
For Jethro Tull albums see Jethro Tull discography

As solo artist or with friends

• The Cocktail Cowboy Goes It Alone (Woodworm, 1983).
• Birthday Party (Woodworm, 1998).
• A Box of Pegg's (Matty Grooves, 2007)
• Dave Pegg's 60th Birthday Bash (Matty Grooves, 2008)

On Dana Scott and the Crown Folk album

• Folk In Worship (BBC Records, 1969)

On Nick Drake albums

• Bryter Layter (Island, 1970)
• Fruit Tree (Island, 1979)
• Way to Blue: - An Introduction to Nick Drake (Island, 1994)
• Nick Drake Treasury (Island, 2004)

On A. L. Lloyd albums

• The Great Australian Legend (Topic, 1971)
• Old Bush Songs (1995)

On Mike Heron albums

• Smiling Men with Bad Reputations (Electra, 1971)

On Marc Ellington albums

• Rains / Reins of Changes (B&C, 1971)

On Alan Taylor albums

• Sometimes (United Artists, 1971)

On Mick Greenwood albums

• Living Game (MCA, 1971)

On John Martyn albums

• Solid Air (Island, 1973)
• One World (Island, 1977)
• Little Sweet Mysteries: the Island Anthology (Island, 1995)

On Chris Darrow albums

• Chris Darrow (United Artists, 1973)

On Bryn Haworth albums

• Sunny Side of the Street (Island, 1973)
• Songs and Hymns (Kingsway, 1999)

On Sandy Denny Albums

• Like an Old Fashioned Waltz (Island, 1973)
• Rendezvous (Island, 1977)
• Who Knows Where The Time Goes? (Island, 1985)
• A Boxful of Treasures (Fledg'ling, 2004)

On Krysia Kocjan albums

• Krysia (RCA, 1974)

On Steve Ashley albums

• Stroll On (Gull, 1974)
• Steve Ashley's Family Album (Woodworm, 1983)
• Mysterious Ways (Lighthouse, 1990)
• Test of Time (Topic, 1998)
• Stroll On Revisited (Market Square, 1999)
• Everyday Lives (Topic, 2001)
• Acoustic Folk Box (Topic, 2002)
• Speedy Return (Market Square, 2003)
• Live in Concert (Dusk Fire, 2006)
• Time and Tide (Topic, 2007)

On Richard & Linda Thompson albums

• Pour Down Like Silver (Island, 1975)
• Sunnyvista (Chrysalis, 1979)
• Shoot Out the Lights (Hannibal, 1982)

On Ralph McTell albums

• Streets (Warner Brothers, 1973)
• Right Side Up (Warner Brothers, 1976)
• Slide Away the Screen (Warner Brothers, 1977)
• Streets of London (Warner Brothers, 1981)
• From Claire to Here: the songs of Ralph McTell (Red House, 1996)
• Red Sky (Leola, 2005)

On Dave Swarbrick albums

• Swarbrick (Transatlantic, 1976)
• Swarbrick II (Transatlantic, 1977)
• The Ceilidh Album (Sonet, 1978)
• Lift the Lid and Listen (Sonet, 1978)
• Smiddyburn (Logo, 1981)
• Flittin (Spendthrift, 1983)
• The English Fiddler: Swarbrick plays Swarbrick (Naxos World, 2002)

On Richard Thompson albums

• (guitar, vocal) (Island, 1976)
• Hand of Kindness (Hannibal, 1983)
• Watching The Dark: The History of Richard Thompson (Hannibal, 1993)

On Gay & Terry Woods albums

• The Time is Right (Polydor 1976)
• Lake Songs from Red Waters-The Best of Gay & Terry Woods (2004)

On Dan Ar Bras albums

• Douar Nevez (Hexagone, 1977)

On Julie Covington albums

• Julie Covington (Fame, 1978)

On Craig Nuttyholme albums

• It’s Just a Lifetime (A&M, 1978)

On Murray Head albums

• Voices (Mercury, 1980)

On Dick Gaughan albums

• A Different Kind of Love Song (Celtic, 1983)
• Dick Gaughan Prentice Piece (Green Trax, 2002)

On Simon Nicol albums

• Before Your Time (Woodworm, 1987)

With various artists

• Circle Dance—The Hokey Pokey Charity Compilation (Hokey Pokey ConeD, 1990)
• Footsteps to Fame, vol 2 (Repertoire, 1991)
• Best of British Folk Rock (Park, 1997)
• House on Fire vol 2, an Urban Folk Collection (Red House, 1997)
• Blues Britannia (Bridge, 2000)

• Acoustic folk box (Topic, 2002)
• Acoustic vol 2 (Topic, 2002)
• Master Craftsmen (Terra Nova, 2002)
• Along the Pilgrim Way (Pickwick, 2003)
• Best of British Folk (Prism Leisure, 2003)

With The G.P.s

• Saturday Rolling Around live from Broughton Castle (Woodworm, 1991)

On Beryl Marriott with Fairport Convention & Chris Leslie albums

• Weave The Mirror (Woodworm, 1991)

On Sally Barker albums

• The Rhythm is Mine (Hannibal, 1990)
• Another Train (Hypertension, 2000)

On Linda Thompson albums

• Dreams Fly Away: A History of Linda Thompson (Hannibal, 1996)
• Fashionably Late (Topic, 2002)

On Steve Tilson and Maggy Boyle albums

• All Under the Sun (Flying Fish, 1996)

On Ashley Hutchings albums

• The Guv'nor vol 4 (Castle, 1996)

On Phil Pickett albums

• The Bones of All Men (Hannibal, 1998)

With the Dylan Project

• The Dylan Project (Woodworm, 1998)
• The Dylan Project...Live At Cropredy Festival (Woodworm, 1999)
• The Dylan Project 2 (Matty Grooves 2005)

On Alan Simon albums

• Excalibur: La Legende des Celtes (Sbme, 1999)
• Excalibur: Concert Mythique (Epic, 2000)
• Excalibur II: The Celtic Ring (EMI, 2007)

On Fallen Angel albums

• Happy Ever After (Tara, 1999)

On Jerry Donahue albums

• Telecasting recast (Pharaoh, 1999)

On David Hughes albums

• This Other Eden (The Folk Corporation, 1999)
• Recognised (The Folk Corporation, 2002)

On Bob Fox albums

• Dreams Never Leave You (Woodworm, 2000)

On Shirley Collins albums

• Within Sound (Fledg’ling, 2002)

On Chris Leslie albums

• Dancing Days (Talking Elephant, 2003)

On Amazing Blondel albums

• Going Where the Music Takes Me (Shakedown, 2004)

On Anna Ryder albums

• Paper Girl (RowdyMusic, 2004)

With PJ Wright

• Galileo's Apology (Matty Grooves, 2007)

On Steve Tilson albums

• Reaching Back: the Life & Music of Steve Tilston (Free Reed, 2007)

On Ric Sanders albums

• Still Waters (Talking Elephant, 2008)

On Deborah Bonham albums

• Duchess (Warner, 2008)

On Tim Moon album

• Invicta (Inside Motion, due for release 2010)

On Red Shoes album

• Ring Around The Land (Cedarwood Records, 2009)

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Frame, P. (1993). Rock Family Trees (3rd ed.). Omnibus. 
• Humphries, P. (1997). Meet on the Ledge, Fairport Convention, the Classic Years (2nd ed.). Virgin. 
• Nollen, S.A. (2001). Jethro Tull: A History of the Band, 1968-2001. McFarland. 
• Redwood, Fred; Woodward, Martin (1995). The Woodworm Era: The story of today's Fairport Convention. Thatcham: Jeneva Publishing. ISBN 0-9525860-0-2. 

External links[link]

• Fairport Convention's website
• Biography at Jethro Tull official website
• The Dylan Project

Robert Sanderson may refer to:

• Robert Sanderson (Nova Scotia) (1696 – after 1761), merchant and politician of Nova Scotia
• Robert Sanderson (theologian) (1587–1663), English theologian and casuist
• Robert Sanderson (MP for West Looe), British Member of Parliament for West Looe 1588–1589
• Robert B. Sanderson (c. 1826 – after 1867), American farmer and politician

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Philip G. "Phil" Hare (born February 21, 1949) is the former U.S. Representative for Illinois's 17th congressional district, serving from 2007 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is based in Illinois' share of the Quad Cities area and includes Rock Island, Moline, Quincy, Decatur, Galesburg and part of Springfield.

Early life, education, and early political career[link]

Hare was born in Galesburg but was raised in Rock Island. He graduated from Alleman High School in 1967. The son of a machinist, Hare went to work at Seaford Clothing Factory in Rock Island where he stayed for 13 years. He received his A.A. degree at Black Hawk College in Moline, Illinois. While working there Hare served as a union leader and was President of the UNITE HERE Local 617. He served in the U.S. Army Reserves from 1969 to 1975.^[1]

Hare began his political career in 1980 when he ran as an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention in support of the presidential candidacy of Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. He was one of six candidates running for alternate delegate but the three Kennedy delegates were defeated by the three candidates supporting President Jimmy Carter of Georgia.

Working for Lane Evans[link]

In 1982 Hare left his union position to help his friend Lane Evans, who was running for the U.S. House of Representatives in an attempt to unseat 16-year incumbent Republican Tom Railsback. Hare first met Evans in 1976 when the two were volunteers in U.S. Senator Fred R. Harris's campaign for president. However, Railsback was upset by conservative State Senator Kenneth McMillan in the Republican primary. Evans defeated McMillan in November, and appointed Hare as district director.

For the next 24 years Hare worked as an aide to Evans, assisting the congressman primarily on constituent issues and labor problems. In the last few years of Evans' time in Congress, Hare attended several speaking engagements and even debated Evans' opponents in 2002 and 2004 because of the congressman's Parkinson's disease, which often prevented Evans from participating in the engagements.

U.S. House of Representatives[link]

Elections[link]

2006

In March 2006, Evans decided to retire and shortly afterwards, Hare announced his candidacy to succeed Evans. In a special Democratic caucus of precinct committee members from across the 17th Congressional District, Hare received the endorsement of his former boss and prevailed over the four other candidates to replace Evans as the Democratic nominee. Hare defeated his Republican opponent, Andrea Zinga, with 57% of the vote in the November election.

2008

Hare ran unopposed in 2008.

2010

Hare was challenged by Republican nominee Bobby Schilling and Green Party nominee Roger K. Davis. The race was rated a toss-up by the Cook Political Report, CQ Politics, and the New York Times.^[2][3][4] By October, RealClearPolitics rated it "Leans Republican".^[5]

In the November 2 election, Schilling defeated Hare 53%-42%. Hare lost his home county, normally solidly Democratic Rock Island County, by 9 percentage points.

Tenure[link]

Hare's voting record was decidedly liberal, mirroring that of his boss, Evans. Hare is also a founding member of the LGBT Equality Caucus^[6][7] and is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, of which Evans was a founding member.

Health care

Hare has been an advocate for health care reform since becoming Congressman on Memorial Day, May 29, 2006.^[8] During the summer of 2009, Hare took a hard line stance on a public health insurance option, saying, "I will not support any plan that does not contain a robust public option because, a plan without a public option is sort of like a car without a motor. It may look good on the outside, but in the end it will get you nowhere."^[9] After many local health care town halls and public polling, Hare has since backed off of his support of the public option. Hare is quoted as saying that, he ultimately supports a public option but that "It [the public option] is not a deal breaker."^[10]

Labor

Hare is a supporter of organized labor, including the living wage and the Employee Free Choice Act.^[11]

Abortion

Hare has consistently supported access to and funding for contraception, as well as keeping most methods of abortion legal.^[12] He has received the endorsement of NARAL Pro-Choice America.^[13]

Controversies

At an April 2010 town hall meeting, Hare stated on camera, "I don't worry about the Constitution on this to be honest," in relation to Congressional health-care reform efforts.^[14] The cameraman, who was affiliated with the St. Louis Tea Party, was heard to say "jackpot, brother!" after Hare said this, to which Hare responded, "Oh, please." Hare's communications director, Tim Schlittner, later explained that Hare's quote was "taken out of context" and he meant that "he is not worried about this health care law being ruled unconstitutional."^[15] However in the same interview, Hare said, "I believe it (the Constitution) says 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'" When it was pointed out to him that was actually from the Declaration of Independence, Hare said, "It doesn't matter to me."^[16]

Phil Hare has been accused of distorting his military service. Mr. Hare, who served in the Army Reserves in the United States during the Vietnam War, claims to be a Vietnam veteran even though, legally, he is not. By federal law Hare's military service does not make of him a "veteran" of the Vietnam War because he had never served in Vietnam. When challenged about his military record by an actual Vietnam vet, Mr. Hare demanded to know the identity of the man. When the vet refused to give his name Mr. Hare reportedly told an aide to follow the man to his car and get his license plate number so he could find out who the man was. According to the vet, "As Mr. Hare was turning to walk away form me he paused, and turning back to my direction, he glared at me intently, and while leaning forward pointed his finger at me, and in a threatening and intimidating manner said, "I'll find out who you are!" Given the nature of Illinois politics, and Mr. Hare's reputation as a mean politician, I felt intimidated by the power of Mr. Hare's office and what he might do." ^[17]

Committee assignments[link]

• Committee on Education and Labor
  • Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions
  • Subcommittee on Workforce Protections
• Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
  • Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
  • Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment

Election history[link]

• Nomination of precinct committeepersons U.S. House 2006
  • Phil Hare — 17,011 — 64%
  • John M. Sullivan — 7,530 — 28%
  • Mark Schwiebert — 1,370 — 5%
  • Michael Boland — 612 — 2%
  • Rob Mellon — 98 — 0%
• Election of November 7, 2006 for U.S. House Dist. 17
  • Phil Hare (D) — 114,638 — 57%
  • Andrea Zinga (R) — 85,734 — 43%
• Election of November 4, 2008 for U.S. House Dist. 17
  • Phil Hare (D) —- 220,961—99.77%
  • Mark E. Lioen—517—0.23%

Personal life[link]

Hare and his wife Beckie currently live in Rock Island and have two grown children, Amy and Louis.

Hare appeared on the March 15, 2007 episode of The Colbert Report in the show's "Better Know a District" series.^[18]

References[link]

1. ^ Tibbetts, Ed (2010-06-14). "Rep. Phil Hare in battle over one word: Veteran". Quad City Times. http://qctimes.com/news/local/article_082aad62-7756-11df-98c0-001cc4c002e0.html. Retrieved 2010-10-20. "U.S. Rep. Phil Hare’s use of the word “veteran” to describe his military service has angered some local military veterans who say he’s improperly taking on the title." 
2. ^ Illinois 17th District Profile (NYT)
3. ^ CQ Politics IL-17
4. ^ Cook Political Report Upgrades IL-17 to Toss Up
5. ^ RealClearPolitics IL-17
6. ^ "LGBT Equality Caucus | House Members Form LGBT Equality Caucus". Lgbt.tammybaldwin.house.gov. 2008-06-04. http://lgbt.tammybaldwin.house.gov/samplePress.shtml. Retrieved 2010-07-12. 
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External links[link]

• U.S. Congressman Phil Hare official U.S. House site
• Friends of Phil Hare official campaign site
• Biography at WhoRunsGov.com at The Washington Post
• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
• Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
• Congressional profile at GovTrack
• Congressional profile at OpenCongress
• Issue positions and quotes at On the Issues
• Current Bills Sponsored at StateSurge.com
• Financial information at OpenSecrets.org
• Staff salaries, trips and personal finance at LegiStorm.com
• Campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
• Appearances on C-SPAN programs
• Profile at SourceWatch

Jez Lowe
Lowe on stage in 2011
Background information
Born	Easington Colliery, 1955
Occupations	folk singer and songwriter
Years active	ca. 1979-
Associated acts	The Bad Pennies; Jake Walton
Website	http://www.jezlowe.com/

Jez Lowe (born 1955) is an English folk singer-songwriter. Lowe was born and raised in County Durham, in a coal mining family with Irish roots. He is known primarily for his compositions dealing with daily life in North-East England, particularly in his hometown of Easington Colliery. He attended St Francis RC Grammar School in nearby Hartlepool and later studied languages at Sunderland Polytechnic. He performs both as a solo artist and with his backing band, The Bad Pennies. In addition to singing his songs, Lowe accompanies himself and The Bad Pennies on guitar, harmonica, cittern, and piano.

Songwriting[link]

He grew up witnessing the decline of the coal-mining industry that had defined the region's economic profile for generations. A great many of Lowe's compositions address the economic distress that the North Country has suffered as a result of this industrial decline, and the social repercussions thereof. "Galloways," "Nearer to Nettles," and "These Coal Town Days" are among the songs that directly address economic conditions. In the much larger category of social impact songs, well known Lowe compositions are "Big Meeting Day," "Greek Lightning," and "Last of the Widows." (His song, "Last of the Widows", was written in 1991 to mark the fortieth anniversary of the pit disaster at Easington Colliery.) Numerous other songs by Lowe deal with the general issues of poverty and limited social opportunity in the region.

Recent projects[link]

In 2006 Lowe contributed to the BBC Radio 2 'Radio Ballads' documentary series broadcast on Radio 2 as a homage to the original series of the same title pioneered by Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Jez Lowe was commissioned to write 22 new songs for the documentary-folk series, which were not all performed by Lowe but featured guest vocals from the likes of Barry Coope, Bob Fox and many more. The series went on to win two Sony Radio Academy Awards.

In 2008 Lowe was nominated as 'Folksinger of the Year'in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, but ultimately lost the category to young Scottish singer and instrumentalist Julie Fowlis.

Most recently in March 2009 Lowe was invited to collaborate with seven other songwriters on the prestigious 'Darwin Song Project' co-ordinated by Shrewsbury Folk Festival in celebration of local connections to Darwin's birthplace in the bi-centennial year of his birth. The songwriting project has been the subject of a featured documentary programme on BBC Radio 4 and Mike Harding hosted folk programme on BBC Radio 2.

Albums[link]

(N.B. This list is not yet comprehensive. Dates given are for original releases.)

As Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies

• Wotcheor (2010)
• Northern Echoes - Live on the Tyne (2008)
• Tantobie Twinset - Parish Notices + Honesty Box (2007)
• Doolally (2004)
• Honesty Box (2002)
• Fighting the Tide (2001)
• Live at the Davy Lamp (2000)
• The Parish Notices (1998)
• Tenterhooks (1995)
• Bede Weeps (1993)
• Briefly on the Street (1990)

As Jez Lowe

• Jack Common's Anthem (2007)
• Bad Penny (1988)
• Galloways (1985)
• The Old Durham Road (1983)
• Jez Lowe (1980)