2006

Rothenberg Touts two Illinois Congressional Candidates

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Peter Roskam:

Republicans have rallied around Illinois state Sen. Peter Roskam (R) in their effort to hold onto the seat of retiring Rep. Henry Hyde (R), which is considered politically competitive. Well-spoken and likable, Roskam sounds like a well-versed, mainstream conservative who fits this district well.

Roskam worked on Capitol Hill years ago for both Hyde and Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas), so he understands Congress and Congressional campaigns. He?s one of those rare politicians who one minute sounds like a policy wonk and then next talks like a strategist and campaign consultant. I found him refreshing for his candor and insight.

Dan Seals

Democrat Dan Seals is running against Rep. Mark Kirk (R) in Illinois and has little or no chance of winning. But if state and national Democrats have any sense, they?ll find a way to use the African-American businessman?s obvious skills and appeal. A graduate of Boston University, he holds a master?s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He currently works for GE Commercial Finance.

Seals may well have a tough time, but he can use his first race to build up a reputation and he is in place in case there is a complete meltdown.

Roskam, many will huff and puff about and let me say straight up, beating Roskam is important to me, very important, but don’t confuse that with thinking he easy to demonize as a right wing zealot. In person, he’s mild, calm, and somewhat likeable. I can’t stand his speaking style personally, but it is very easy going and very, very attractive to many voters. He is very conservative, but he’s also a very good candidate.

Pre-Primary Seals D-IL-10

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Good job–may start getting some attention if he keeps it up.

Raised: 111398.83
Spent: 31919.86
COH: 132687.39

Debt: 16608.60

Other good news, Patrick Mogge is working for him (keep the spending under control guys)

Roskam pulls in about $36,000 last few days

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Similar to Pavich in PACs and such putting last minute money in as a primary contribution

Pavich Takes home $11,100 Last Few Days

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Reason this is key is it is two PACs with significant donations that count for the primary–so they can donate again in the General Election. Since he doesn’t have a primary opponent, he can spend it later and still get more if need be. AFT and the Sheet Metal Workers both went in for $5,000 each.

Also, if you read the story about Weller from the City News–DCCC spokesperson labels this a targeted race. Good for them.

Since March 2nd

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Duckworth has about $66,500 in large donations.

McSweeney Dumps More in the Race

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$83.06
$83.06
$500000.00

Sullivan Endorsement

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Southtown Backs Sullivan over Lipper the Lessor and the mysterious John Kelly. It’s perhaps possible that Kelly isn’t a plant, but it’s somewhat interesting that a supposedly serious candidate hasn’t filed any campaign finance documents with the FEC meaning he’s either not raising enough to go over the limit of $5000, or he’s not filing (he has a statement of candidacy so..). Either way—it’s not a serious candidacy. John still has a challenge raising money, but he’s at least done something.

The 3rd is a 59% Kerry vote District–it’s a progressive district—let’s get a progressive for it.

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Google Rocks: Markey’s 11th District work

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I was running into all sorts of problems tracking this info down, and it turns out Google was my solution. It’s only as useful as the guy searching it.

Markey’s site contains about all of his correspondence to agencies so his 11th District correspondence was there for the finding.

February 18, 2005

Rep. Markey?s letter to the NRC was motivated by the ordeals of the Sauer family, former residents of Minooka, IL, which is located close to the Dresden nuclear power plant. The family has recently relocated because of concerns about the health impacts associated with living near the Dresden plant, which were heightened because of their daughter?s brain cancer. In June 2003, the NRC was presented with data obtained from the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) that indicate that in Grundy County, IL between 1995-99, the infant mortality rate has doubled, there has been a nearly 400% increase in pediatric cancer and a 38% increase in cancer among those aged 28-44 years old (while the same statistic for all of IL decreased by 8%). Moreover, other statistics show that the incidence of leukemia was 50% higher in men and 100% higher in women in Grundy County than it was in the rest of the State. In its responses to the Sauers, NRC personnel have ignored these statistics and have instead cited a 1990

Actual letter on site

June 29, 2005–commments on a reease by the National Academy of Sciences regarding the safety of nuclear plants—and offers an amendment to at least study the impact of more plants.

Jerry Weller’s response:

Co sponsor a bill with Obama in March of 2006. and yelling about how Exelon should be responsible. I wonder if he was helping out in Massachusetts 7 or if he just counts on others to do his constituent work.