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Onto the inside: On the left side of the 8½ by 11 inch centerfold is a photo of the new and the previous McSweeney. Before his extreme makeover, McSweeney was much heavier and the heavier McSweeney is shown in a photo with President Reagan, while the new, thinner McSweeney appears in a portrait above a note saying that he has “walked door-to-door through our neighborhoods…and have learned firsthand about your concerns…I am a husband…father…businessman…a proud American.”

Park Ridge-born, McSweeney’s touts his education--economics degree and MBA from Duke University.

Above the photo posing with President Reagan, the Barrington Hills candidate explains he began by volunteering for the candidate in 1980, “interned with the Reagan-Bush 1984 campaign, served as Palatine Township Trustee, and has supported numerous Republican candidates as a Precinct Captain in Palatine, Barrington, and Schaumburg Townships.”

McSweeney moved from Palatine Township after running unsuccessfully against Congressman Phil Crane in 1998. When the incumbent Republican and Democrat congressmen and women were allowed to draw their own district lines during re-districting, Crane put the line so that McSweeney and Melissa Bean did not live in the district. McSweeney moved into the district. Bean did not.