everyone is in Florida now, spring break
Illinois had yet another snow storm today, I'm sure we'd all love to be in Florida on spring break with the college kids (of course, I could never afford trips to Miami when I was in college). But we're talking about a U.S. Senate candidate. You do NOT go on vacation a few days BEFORE the election. Quite frankly, I'm surprised this issue hasn't gotten more media coverage and severely damaged or killed his campaign. Oberweis figures he has it in the bag and the media is probably slyly waiting for the general election, knowing he'll be easy to destroy.
>> Frontrunner for the GOP nomination for CD-8 had apparently falsely claimed that Herman Cain endorsed her. Doesn’t bode well for our chances to win that seat. <<
I know Joe Walsh endorsed Goel to be his successor for that seat. Unfortunately I really haven't followed the primary races in IL-8 or IL-11 (four way race there) very closely. Locally I'm near IL-3 so I've followed that one very closely. PhilCollins kept trying to get me to endorse Diane Harris. Between Harris and Brannigan, I had a hard time picking, they're both decent candidates but either way it will be difficult unseating Lipinski. Over in IL-9, we have a pair of horrible candidates - a nut that's clearly out of her league and some RINO who's a Paulbot and mostly likely also nuts but better at hiding it. The only ones I'm really excited about is Bobby Schilling running to take back IL-17 (which will be difficult given how RAT they've made the district, but with Obamacare he has an opening), and Erick Harold primarying incumbent Rodney Davis in IL-13 (which really IS the kind of race Liz Cheney fans falsely advertised their candidate as -- a staunch conservative fighter vs. a do-nothing incumbent)