Hat tip to Steve Aldrich.
Under the title “Campaign strategy run amok,” the Beacon News yesterday slammed Jim Oberweis the politician, not just the gubernatorial campaign.
From the Beacon News:
“The issue: The continued political gaffes of Jim Oberweis.
We say: Once supported as our hometown guy, Oberweis has demonstrated poor judgment in his recent campaigns.
In 2002, this newspaper endorsed Jim Oberweis in his U.S. Senate bid. We liked the Aurora financial wiz and dairy owner. He was our hometown guy, and he had some smart things to say.
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Four years and no political wins later, our hometown guy has spent way too much time making headlines for what we would call continued campaign gaffes. Oberweis did not win the GOP primary endorsement on Sunday of the 100 or so newspapers that make up the Sun-Times News Group, including The Beacon News.
Oberweis didn’t earn our vote among the group largely because of what he has shown us since his first campaign for political office.
Here’s what we had to say two years ago during a second failed run for U.S. Senate: ‘Oberweis has taken a sharp tack to the right, pandering to the conservative extreme of the GOP on abortion and immigration issues and launching a television ad campaign that is all glitz and no substance.’
It’s only continued.
…[L]ast week he made news twice for his poor campaign choices — choices that say something about the candidate’s character.
The Associated Press reported on a Web site authored by Oberweis’ DuPage County coordinator that we believe overstepped the boundary dividing an issue-oriented campaign with one that concentrates on attacking an opponent. Rather than simply challenging State Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka, another GOP gubernatorial candidate, on social issues such as homosexual rights, the Web site carries the warning ‘Not Suitable for Children’ and features photos and video of Topinka participating in Chicago’s Gay Pride Parade, an annual event that attracts thousands of spectators and some of the state’s most prominent politicians.
The Web site also resorts to labeling Topinka as a ‘pro-homosexual activist.’
In another campaign move that made news, Oberweis released television ads that purported to show headlines taken from a number of newspapers statewide. They did not. The Oberweis campaign defended the ads, saying that while the headlines never actually appeared in the newspapers, the words chosen were excerpted from stories the newspapers ran.
This is a case of misrepresentation, and it’s another instance where Oberweis’ campaign is wrong.”
Wow. And they didn’t even mention the immigrant illegal hiring issue.
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