To: fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued
The problem is I and others have spoken with Senator Lauzen on the phone and he doesn't want to run under these circumstances. He says the seat going Republican was a foregone conclusion until Oberweis spent millions of dollars in the primary trashing Lauzen's record and now Lauzen is in severe campaign debt after competing with a self-funded millionaire in the primary and would be forced to run against an incumbent RAT with only a few monthes to prepare. Lauzen says Oberweis left the 14th District Republicans in total disarray and doesn't want to try and clean up Oberweis' mess at the 11th hour. Oberweis barrage of anti-Lauzen ads also drove up Lauzen's negatives, before the ugly primary fight Lauzen had a 70% approval rating in the district.
If Oberweis dropped out, I'm told the "only moderates can win crowd" at the IL GOP would likely slate RINO Genava Mayor Kevin Burns (who dropped out of the primary when he couldn't compete) to run in November.
I'm not sure which is worse, Oberweis or Burns.
8 posted on
05/31/2008 7:24:55 PM PDT by
BillyBoy
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To: BillyBoy
Well, that’s f*cking fantastic. Maybe we can come back in 2010... or 2012 (of course by then, the rodent legislature will likely make a nice safe seat for the nobody currently occupying it). I hope that dick Oberweis is happy with the mess he made. He seems to be nothing but a Democrat agent.
9 posted on
05/31/2008 8:42:22 PM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: BillyBoy
Oberweis is a first class a$$ clown who deserved to lose. He spent $3 million to distort Lauzen’s record. Yet came begging to the NRCC to dump $1 million for him. What a fool. Oberweis needs to go back to hiring illegal immigrants for his ice cream stores.
10 posted on
06/02/2008 6:38:24 PM PDT by
yongin
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