I’m not sure that Roeser is that set on Uberweis yet, but this is hysterical from Pearson:
Which brings Oberweis to today, his third consecutive statewide election campaign.
And to marshal support he has diversified the contents of his dairy barnyard to include a chicken coop, or, more specifically, a guy best known for wearing a chicken suit.
New alliesJoe Wiegand, formerly a paid staffer of conservative businessman Jack Roeser, regularly donned the feathered suit in 2002 in support of Patrick O’Malley, a former state senator from Palos Park. The costume was aimed at portraying eventual GOP nominee Jim Ryan as being afraid to debate Wiegand’s candidate.
At that time, Wiegand was working for Roeser’s Carpentersville-based Family Taxpayers’ Network as its executive director, and Roeser was backing O’Malley to the tune of $400,000. The group is one of several political arms financed by Roeser aimed at promoting his version of “championing a good moral and economic climate.”
This time around, with Wiegand’s involvement, the Roeser allegiances appear to have shifted from O’Malley and, after a brief, unsuccessful dalliance with state Sen. Steve Rauschenberger (R-Elgin), toward Oberweis.
But Roeser has had his share of election losers besides O’Malley. One of them is Wiegand, who got $15,000 from Roeser in a failed primary bid for an Illinois House seat last year.