August 2005

Worst Report: Birkett

Holy Moly

Funds available at the beginning of the reporting period $30,156.23

Total Receipts $231,805.09

Subtotal $261,961.32

Total Expenditures $98,202.13

Funds available at the close of the reporting period $163,759.19

It gets even worse when one reads through the report.

$19,000 from the Don Stephens family and associates–for a guy who claims to be law and order

and about
$15,000 from law firms in DuPage that probably have business with his office.

So Fucking Depressing

Someone go through the Governor’s report and add up the pay day loan industry’s donations to him. Even without those donations he’d have turned in a stellar report. I just can’t do it. Every time I think the guy can’t disappoint me, he goes the extra mile to do it.

Discuss

Uberweis is almost entirely self and Roeser funded while doomed candidate Ron Gidwitz has a large number of large donors ($700,000 from those named Gidwitz). How does a clown like Gidwitz get all these guys to give him big checks?

I have some theories, but I’m interested in hearing the readers first.