Posted in March 10th, 2008
No. They won’t. They’d like to and would if Oberweis would go along with it, but the secondary problem to replacing him is with whom do you replace him. Eric recommends Tom Cross. Cross would be a great choice, but he didn’t run in the first place and it’s unlikely to change now. Cross […]
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Posted in March 9th, 2008
Talk about pitiful: The tactics used against Oberweiss, a successful investment banker and dairyman who has lost two primary bids for U.S. Senator and one for governor, were “outrageous,” according to Oberweiss campaign spokesman and strategist Bill Pascoe. Recalling his past as campaign manager for Republican Bret Schundler for governor of New Jersey and in […]
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Posted in March 8th, 2008
Via Rich: Chris Cillizza Republican strategists downplayed the importance of the race, insisting that Oberweis’s past runs for office had badly damaged him in the eyes of voters. Oberweis, who owns a chain of dairies throughout the state, ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 2002 and 2004, and governor in 2006. His previous primary campaigns […]
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Posted in March 8th, 2008
Foster pledged it tonight 😉 FOSTER: Thanks Obama and lets this zinger go — “For those of you following the election closely, there’s one more pledged superdelagate today.”
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Posted in March 8th, 2008
OneMan is a great guy and I’m sorry he was part of the losing team–he’s got a lot of class.
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Posted in March 8th, 2008
Via Rich U.S. House – District 14 – Special General Illinois – 558 of 568 Precincts Reporting – 98% Name Party Votes Vote % Foster , Bill Dem 50,451 52% Oberweis , Jim GOP 45,741 48% Bill Foster will be a great Congressman, congrats to him and his family who are some of […]
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Posted in March 7th, 2008
Why he is so beloved by everyone: The latest in the bickering between Foster, a physicist with a doctorate from Harvard University, and Oberweis, a millionaire dairy businessman, is video footage showing Oberweis mocking the speech of his rival during a taping of NBC5’s “City Desk” last week. “I’m so nervous,” Oberweis said while pretending […]
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Posted in March 7th, 2008
Who the hell is running the House GOP Caucus in DC? Lee Daniels? From: Lillibridge, Matthew To: [redacted]@mail.house.gov; [redacted]@voinovich.senate.gov; [redacted]@brown.senate.gov; [other names redacted] Sent: Fri Mar 07 13:04:29 2008 Subject: FW: Phone banking Matthew J. Lillibridge Congressman Steve Chabot (OH-01) 129 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Phone: (202) 225-2216 Fax: (202) 225-3012 To […]
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Posted in March 7th, 2008
DCCC addresses Jim’s issues here: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/vpIf484dock” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]
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Posted in March 7th, 2008
It appears Oberweis Dairy might have violated the law by engaging in public dissemination of press materials about the race. It’s a fairly complicated area of campaign finance law to be sure, but it wouldn’t be the first violation for Helicopter Jim….in this cycle, or in this way. Using corporate resources, a private public relations […]
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Posted in March 7th, 2008
Below, Oberweis does his Sylvester the Cat impersonation that he does not dislike immigrants…other than those Minutemen meetings and his most famous commercial: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Nst-aXvdrR4″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]
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Posted in March 7th, 2008
Oberweis defends making up family for ads: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/50TbUKIhcQg” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] “Three or four days before the end of the campaign to go out and spend time trying to find people to fit those different categories was a lot more difficult than just finding actors.”
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Posted in March 7th, 2008
I owe Chris Lauzen and John Zahm apologies (Zahm was a volunteer, not employee of Lauzen’s campaign). I figured the lawsuits would start in the primary-probably with Zahm. Nope. The Oberweis family sues first! The content of the DCCC piece is not my favorite argument given it was a contractor, but at the same […]
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Posted in March 6th, 2008
Essentially the voters think he’s a dick. 49% unfavorable 39% favorable. If it’s any consolation, Blagojevich is a bigger dick with 74% disapproval.
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Posted in March 6th, 2008
Jonathan Singer over at MyDD points out that the money the RNCC is throwing at IL-14 is about 1/3 of their cash on hand–well before the accounting irregularities are sorted out. They may not be out of debt yet even. And if they lose IL-14, the wallets of big donors get harder to crack open.
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