Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Fighting John Laesch

I heard Laesch at the League of Women Voters describe how he was sent to Africa with the Navy after the USS Cole bombing and he conjured a Rambo image of a guy single-handedly out for Osama bin Laden.

Let's see how long he hangs in on this fight. Given the history of snafus in Kane County, and the complicated two ballot voting, he may have a case. From NPR,

The election in Illinois' 14th Congressional District was anything but cut and dried. Voters had to cast two ballots: one for November's general election, then another one for the March 8th special election. That's needed because Hastert resigned before his term was over.

Former Fermilab scientist Bill Foster claimed victory in the special election. But the general's not so clear. Carpenter John Laesch is barely behind Foster and says he's not giving up yet.

LAESCH: We're gonna make sure every vote's counted, recounted if possible, and certainly we're gonna make sure all the provisional ballots and absentee ballots are counted. So, we're gonna be hiring a lawyer and this will go on a couple days.

Foster spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money on the primary. He faces Republican Jim Oberweis in the special election.

4 comments:

Anonymous,  11:03 AM  

Laesch winning the General Primary would be a dream for Oberweis.

If Foster is only running in the Special Election for an 8 month term (which there is no dispute he is the winner of the Special Primary), he is not going to put resources or time into the race.

Thus, Oberweis is an incumbent running against a guy who will not win any district except an outside shot at the city of Aurora.

Bill Baar 12:06 PM  

It would be strange, but I wouldn't under estimate Laesch in a match up against Oberweis.

Imagine Oberweis in Nov on a ticket with McCain at the head of it. The same McCain Hastert tells us is a Democrat.

Oberweis is really going to have to retool his image and send Hastert back to the farm.

Oberweis is like Hillary with high negatives tough to change.

I don't think either Foster or Laesch cakewalks and Laesch a better campaigner despite what his progressive friends, who deserted him for Foster's dollars, say.

Anonymous,  2:54 PM  

Hope that lawyer doesn't mind working pro bono.

Anonymous,  9:43 PM  

Looks like Laesch's campaign is having a press conference on Friday at 10 a.m. at his campaign HQ, 46 w downer in Aurora to address the issue.

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