Call It A Comeback
Seals
$301407.61
$68868.52
$498872.72
Good take–and relatively low spending.
Footlik
$193243.88
$53060.97
$414018.59
KIrk
$525465.19
$138020.28
$1509754.74Lot’s of PAC money in there to look through.
Kirk has great numbers, but so do the combined Seals-Footlik numbers. Seals needed a good quarter to demonstrate he was the favorite and he pulled it off. His cash is far more local than Footlik, but that’s expected. Both kept their spending in check too.
You only have the power if you use it Senator Reid
And kudos for doing it publicly.
Now that he has a serious challenger
$147,000 Raised
$75,000 spent
$610,000 on hand
That’s pretty decent especially given the hard time many Republicans are having raising cash.
Not amazing or anything, but sort of out of no where. He’s from Springfield and is running in IL-19. Some of it is General Election money to pump up the totals, but it’s pretty clear this is just a ramp up.
I’m not jumping for joy, but he’s one to keep an eye out for if he can build on the quarter.
Note to candidates whining about not being able to raise cash: ask this guy.
Laesch
$45,000 Raised
$30,000 Spent
$20,000 On hand
Stein
$61,000 raised
$38,000 Spent
$61,000 on hand
$33,000 in debt (probably not being repaid so irrelevant)
Foster
$209,000 Raised
$105,000 Spent
$407,000 On hand
$200,000 in debt (not being repaid)
Foster has at least 2 mailings in the expenditures too.
Lauzen hasn’t filed, but claims to be around $200,000 which is okay–given he’s a sitting State Senator, it seems a bit low, but it is the ramp up quarter.
6245 S. Archer Houses
Dan Lipinski’s District Office
Blue Chip Consulting Run by William Lipinski
State Rep Robert Molaro’s State Office
Bill Lipinski’s All-American Eagles state PAC
Alderman Mike Zalewski has his government office at 6247 S. Archer
Hurckes is paid out of 2 if not 3 of the above. That must be some interesting work to avoid doing any political work in the wrong chair depending upon who is paying.
Constantine worked for State Representative Robert A Molara who has a District Office at…
6245 South Archer Avenue. Busy place.
Political Consulting for Lipinski staff is pretty common. You might remember Anthony R. Constantine on Lipinski’s staff promising to do some work for Bill Scheuer in gathering signatures last cycle. The same Anthony R. Constantine works for Lipinski’s office having earned about $40,000 last year.
Constantine ran for Library Trustee in Oak Lawn as well-where Hurckes is a Trustee
And Leonard DeClue who challenged the Keyes residency was appointed to the Oak Lawn Fair Housing Commission upon which Hurckes also sits.
From 1994:
Special Report. A precinct captain of the 23rd ward named Jerry Hirkess lives in Oaklawn but is registered to vote at the 23rd ward in Chicago. Also three people are registered at the bar but do not live there. (C) BOHICA bar. (SB) Jerry Hurckes. (V) Jerome Hurckes. (SB) Jerry Hurckes, Precinct Captain. (C) BOHICA BAR. (V) Albert Cacciottolo, Kathleen McGuigian, Richard Kus are registered at the BOHICA BAR. (C) At the BOHICA BAR. (SB) Unidentified Mailman. (SB) Jerry Hurckes. (SB) Congressman William Lipinski, 3rd Cong. Dist. (SB) Chris Robling, COMMISSION OF BOARD OF ELECTIONS.
Trustee to the Village of Oak Lawn
Dan Lipinski’s Chief of Staff Over $100,000 in 2006 on the federal payroll
Political Consultant to Bill Lipinski’s All American Eagles $3500 in 2006 alone
Trustee Jerry Hurckes touched off the controversy when he requested that the inspector visit a home on the 9300 block of Melvina Avenue based on a complaint that it was vacant and deteriorating.
It turned out to be a bogus tip. The house is inhabited but in good shape.
The inspector, however, noticed a Dumpster sitting in the yard of a house a few doors down.
Hurckes’ political rival Kurt Madey — who tried to unseat him earlier this spring — owns the home and was in the middle of an unpermitted construction project.
Now, the inspector who confronted Madey on the illegal project is caught in the middle of the dispute and is facing allegations that he strong-armed the village board hopeful.
“This was by sheer coincidence?” said Mayor Dave Heilmann who backed Madey in his bid for office. “I don’t think so.”
“If you battle the king, you better kill him, or he’s going to come back and haunt you,” Hurckes said on Election Day as he ribbed the rival Unity Party and alluded to a challenge for the mayoral seat in 2009.
The statement was enlightening regarding the latest dust up, Heilmann said.
Hurckes denies that politics had anything to do with his call to the public works department.
“I’m the innocent guy here,” he said contending that he merely was responding to a constituent’s complaint.
“I followed through on things … it’s part of my job,” he added.
From September 1, 2004 in the Daily Herald:
NEW YORK – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes will try to withstand another legal objection to his candidacy in a State Board of Elections hearing that could take place as early as Friday.
Leonard A. De Clue, a 54-year-old Oak Lawn Democrat, filed the objection Monday, citing a problem with the paperwork the Illinois Republican Party filed to put Maryland’s Keyes on the Nov. 2 ballot in place of the departed primary winner Jack Ryan.
The state GOP did not know where Keyes would be living when it offered him the Senate position, so it left that line blank on a required election form, then went back to fill in the address days later when it learned Keyes had chosen an apartment in Calumet City as his residence. That’s the basis for the objection.
De Clue could not be reached for comment late Tuesday night. But he has ties to Jerry Hurckes, who is retiring Chicago Democratic Congressman William Lipinski’s chief of staff. Hurckes and De Clue have served on Oak Lawn’s fair housing panel.
Keyes’ campaign, which fought off another ballot challenge last Friday, was bemused by the latest challenge.
“What are they scared of?” said Bill Pascoe, Keyes’ campaign manager. “What does this say about the Democratic Party?”
Robert Gibbs, a spokesman for Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama, said he didn’t know about the challenge.
More in a bit
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