It’s clear Jim Oberweis isn’t smart enough to argue his way out of a paper bag, so let’s look at the most recent Trib editorial on the fumbling campaign run by the man who cannot win:
Total fiction. All of it. These people don’t exist. They were created by Oberweis’ campaign, which bought stock photos to use in the ad.
They’re nice-looking folks, although they’re sporting awfully big smiles given that they could be slapped with Foster’s huge tax increases.
Oh, wait, these families don’t exist. They’re fake.
The flier cops to this trickery in itty bitty print at the bottom. “The four examples above are fictional, and any similarity between these characters and any real people is pure coincidence,” it reads.
Pure coincidence? Makes us think any similarity between the Oberweis campaign and the truth is pure coincidence.
He’s done this kind of thing before. In 2006, he ran a TV ad that used fake headlines from several newspapers to trash his Republican opponent for governor, Judy Baar Topinka. The ad had the Tribune masthead above a headline that said: “Investigation into Topinka.” The Tribune didn’t run that headline or those words.
This page endorsed Bill Foster earlier this week. One reason for that decision: Oberweis has shown in four campaigns that he plays fast and loose with the truth.
By the way, using Oberweis’ calculations, the Wadsworths must be paying $34,250 in taxes on their $73,000 income. And that’s before the $8,905 increase.
They really need a new tax accountant.
Oh, that’s right. They’re not real.
Is Urquhart the Scottish-Gaelic word for horseshit?
Trib says of Oberweis’ fictionalized characters: “They really need a new tax accountant.”
Too bad for them Senator CPA lost the primary to the Milk Dud.
BTW Larry, you have an extra ” mark in your Obie link at the left… comes up as a %22 in code and breaks the link to CBS2.