It is a political campaign maxim, particularly for non-incumbents, that campaigns must jealously focus on their own race to win - and that any ‘distraction’ from their campaign comes at great or even unbearable cost. While examples may exist, how often have you heard of an underdog congressional campaign taking their volunteers to canvass […]
Jill Morgenthaler’s Congressional Campaign in IL-06 has started to pick up momentum with additions/changes in staff, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) designation as a “targeted district” and a solid, if still needing to be ramped up, first full fundraising quarter quarter of over $200,000. The addition of experienced campaign manager Bill Romjue, who has […]
From the Scott Harper for Congress Campaign:
“On Saturday, 38 volunteers from Scott Harper’s campaign traveled to Lafayette, Indiana to help get the vote out for Barack Obama. We left from Bolingbrook at the early hour of 6:00 AM on Saturday and spent the day canvassing Lafayette, which is right near Purdue University. Scott […]
Democratic Candidate Tony Michelassi got picked up by the Lisle Sun in a profile here - and Progress Illinois picked it up here. I met Tony a while ago (he was then with Ruben Zamora’s 14th Congressional District campaign) - and he is certainly enthusiastic. You can check out Tony’s campaign blog here.
[OneMan provides a correction - it was the local GOP Party’s elephant, not Alan Keyes’ elephant.]
John Nichols reports about it here.
What I remember most of Alan Keyes’ 2004 GOP Senate bid against Barack Obama was that Keyes came to Naperville with a giant elephant float. The float got stuck within the first quarter mile […]
The Aurora Beacon News reported today that Aurora Aldermen voted 9-2 to continue lobbyist Dan Shomon’s $84,000 contract for the rest of the year, with mayoral candidates Stephanie Kifowit and Rick Lawrence voting against. Kifowit has expressed criticism of Shomon’s work in the past, and more recently argued that any new contract with him […]
Illinois Lieutenant Governors have the primary duty of waiting until the governor is “dead” and then succeeding them (pdf). Gotta wonder what Pat Quinn thinks of this.
[Editor Note: Just experienced the dangers of Google cache. Not sure if my inadvertent “quote from behind the wall” of Rich’s Capitol Fax is kosher or not (I saw the Google cache of the Naperville Dems site, but grabbed the link to the current site where, after publishing this and then checking the […]
Congratulations Scott!
From the Scott Harper Campaign:
“Harper shatters fundraising marks, reports record filing
Democrat’s strong showing adds IL-13 to DCCC target watch list
Naperville – Scott Harper, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the 13th district, today filed his first-quarter fundraising report with the Federal Elections Commission, shattering every significant fundraising record ever held here by a Democratic […]
Republicans have a real problem. The GOP has ruled the United States for the last seven years with President Bush, a Republican majority congress (or a minority practicing unprecedented legislative obstructionism (and here)) and a majority [in the] Supreme Court (not to mention lower courts). But despite Republicans holding the reins of power […]
