Daily Herald: Fight still left in Laesch
Daily Herald with this and then Downtowner over at PSB on Laesch's press conference yesterday. From the Herald,
Among those encouraging Laesch to keep fighting was state Sen. Mike Noland. The Elgin Democrat, who referred to Laesch as "Cinderella Man" and compared him to presidential hopeful Barack Obama, lost two state legislative races by close margins before finally winning in 2006.All the energy and money devoted to Pera running in the southwest side as pro-abortion and pro-embryonic stem cell research, when you could have betted on running Laesch against Oberweis in Elgin and Aurora on immigration.
"It's so close, we have to do it," Noland said. "The fight goes on. No matter what the result, young man, you have an extremely bright future."
A lot of progressives underestimated their own lured by a guy with money and slim experience. Read Lisa Smith: Group questions Foster's experience
Highlighting a Foster campaign mailer describing how Foster was "serving on Murphy's congressional staff" before deciding to run for office himself, the Washington-based Majority Accountability Project claimed that House payroll records don't list Foster's name anywhere on Murphy's staff. Foster's news release clarified that Foster "was an unpaid staffer after Murphy's election." But working for free for a member of Congress could be considered a violation of House ethics rules, Majority Accountability Project pointed out Friday.Laesch may have some quirks, but compared to Oberweis's own quirks; that'll be a wash. Foster's puffing will be tougher to shake.
2 comments:
Bill-
It will be interesting to see who will avoid the special election, or cross vote across party lines more- The former Lauzen supporters or the former Laesch supporters. There is some bad blood in both parties.
There could be some surprizes.. be interesting to see what kind of turn out.. a lot of both might just sit it out.
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