* Freshman Republican Bob Dold has complained that Democrat Brad Schneider’s ad which calls him a “Tea Party loyalist” is a fabrication. Well, the House Majority PAC has now doubled down…
Dold ain’t gonna like that one.
* Dold, by the way, has a major cash advantage over Schneider in the 10th CD…
Team Dold netted $993,509 in donations during the quarter, according to the campaign’s report. For the entire election cycle, the Dold campaign has received an estimated $3.9 million from donors.
The Dold campaign spent $832,560 during the quarter and $1.9 million during the race so far, records show.
The Dold campaign ended the period with $2.3 million in the bank and $44,480 in debts.
Schneider’s campaign netted $777,268 in donations during the last quarter. For the campaign, he’s received nearly $2.3 million in campaign checks.
Schneider spent more than Dold during the quarter, reporting nearly $1.1 million in expenses. Overall, the Schneider campaign has spent $2.1 million on the race. That includes money spent during the contested Democratic primary. Dold ran unopposed in the GOP primary.
Schneider finished the quarter with $267,625 in the bank — roughly 11 percent of the funds in Dold’s campaign war chest.
* Related…
* Dold, Schneider discuss bipartisanship, health care reform: Dold, though, said the act addressed access to insurance, not quality. He said the way to drive down medical costs is through consumer-driven plans. While a large portion of the country gets its health insurance through employers, Dold said he has talked to business owners who would prefer to pay a required penalty in exchange for sending their employees to find alternatives on the “free market.” “I can think of few things more terrifying than to tell someone they’re on their own to get health care,” Dold said.
* Dold Discards Norquist Pledge in Debate With Schneider: Dold then touted his support of the Cooper-LaTourette financial plan as an alternative to the House Republican Budget authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), his party’s vice presidential candidate. He was one of eight co-sponsors—four Democrats and four Republicans… “I’ll do it in a way we will be able to get more than 38 votes,” Schneider said of his intentions to work with Republicans. “The day after (Cooper La Tourette was defeated) he (Dold) voted for the Ryan budget that will replace Medicare with a voucher system.”
I wonder if those employers Dold spoke to realize that dumping their health insurance and telling employees to get it on their own is an invitation to a union?
So Dold has flipped on Grover Norquist? Good. He shouldn’t have signed a no-tax pledge in the first place, nor should any elected official.
Grover Norquist is almost single-handedly responsible for the gridlock in Washington. I just wish Dold’s repudiation of him was a trend, but I think it’s just a convenient way for Dold to pretend he’s not really a Republican, or at least not a Tea Party Republican. Just to be on the safe side though, I hope the voters go with Schneider.
Bob Dold, Independent (paid for by the Republican Party).
vote like that, you get what you deserve. there is no longer a Republican party. it is held hostage by those who want to control women’s bodies. it’s not just abortion folks, but birth control. and it is very scary. THEY hate our freedom.
latourette is retiring from congress, duckworth made a similar mistake when she went before the tribune editorial board and said she wanted to work with sullivan a congressman from oklahoma who was defeated in a primary 6 months before her tribune editorial board. You have to research your facts.
There’s no excuse for dems on schneider’s awfulness as a candidate, the competitiveness of the race, or his lack of funds. They had the pens to draw the map, it’s one of the best educated areas of the country with dazzling resumes and educations and resumes you don’t see in 99 percent of the country and he’s stunk up the joint and all they had to do was make 1 argument that their candidate was a vote for obama and dold was a vote for the tea party like democrats have made for 20 years and enabled them to win races like that and they can’t make it. It’s one of the wealthiest areas of the country and he’s badly outgunned financially which is inexplicable. In the abc7 debate they asked a question on Israel and schneider cites as his credentials and I quote “I had conversations with my wife about Iran and I attended meetings in college” that’s embarrassing.
Precisely the problem with the Affordable Health Care Act. It is designed to move health insurance away from plans associated with jobs to independently purchased plans.
Look what is happening to the health care provided to retired workers. The benefit are changing from a supplemental policy to a stipend toward a supplemental policy. This is a specific example of unintended consequences of national legislation. Thanks Affordable Health Care Act.
Companies will follow their best interests within the law.
===It is designed to move health insurance away from plans associated with jobs to independently purchased plans.===
I don’t think that’s a bug, I think it’s a feature. Jobs come and go, especially these days. The idea of health insurance tied to a job is an anachronism harking back to the days when you worked for the same company for 30 years and then retired. Other than government employees, who does that these days?
It’s the year where Democrats don’t have anything else to talk about because the economy sucks, gas prices are way up, bin laden isn’t a defining issue, and obamacare isn’t selling so they need it to scare women voters into supporting them.
This is a totally lame attack. Dold is hardly a “Tea Party” activist nor or his constituents or most Republicans in the district. This type of distortion of reality is akin to saying Madison, Wisconsin is a bastion of conservatism in terms of its politics.
Get real, Schneider, it would be a different story if your opponent were Joe Walsh.
Again with the Tea Party?
Please stop being so ridiculous.
The issue is jobs. For women voters, jobs is the number one issue by 42%. Claiming that Dold is subhuman regarding women’s rights is as silly as claiming Obama was born in Kenya.
Schneider isn’t doing himself a favor with these kinds of stupid ads.
Attack Dold on his positions regarding the economy and jobs, not being a “Tea Partier”.
@Shore stop trivializing women’s health issues and proclaiming that it is a scare tactic. it’s not. when the Republican Vice Presidential candidate has to change his position from no abortion ever, to abortion in the case of rape, incest and life of the mother, and we have to trust that he will never get his hands on the power lever, the worry is real. totally real.
Amalia, shout it from the rooftops, I’m with you all the way (it feels good to, finally, agree with you!).
The right-wing, stick-your-nose-in-someone-else’s-business attack on women is for real, and needs to be beaten down like a rented mule on Nov. 6.
Rep. Ryan, from Janesville, has tried to sugar up his position on women’s rights, saying it’s based on “science and reason.”
Are you kidding me?
He wants to put the federal government not only in your OB/GYN office, but also at your Walgreen’s and CVS prescription line.
He’s an Eddie Munster-goof from Janesville.
I’m an older Ronnie Van Zandt look-alike born down the road at St. Anthony’s in Rockford.
I have peeps in both towns, plus Stoughton, Freeport, Beloit, Belvidere and Madison.
Let me tell you — Rep. Ryan does not share my Midwestern values.
I’m pushing 50 and am the youngest among my first-generation siblings.
I’m a Norske man. My FarMor had 13 pregnancies (nine lived). My MorMor had 12 (nine lived).
My beautiful, brilliant grandmothers worked at hard labor and were pregnant all of their lives.
They did not have choices, unless the choices were rejecting the God-given human urge or the dictates of the male pezzonovantes of their times.
My FarMor, MorMor and mother are dead. But I have a wife. I have sisters. I have sister’s-in-law. I have a daughter. I have nieces. I have friends.
I will not sit still for ayatollahs like Todd Akin, or Rick Santorum, or Antonin Scalia, when they try to stick their noses in the women in my life’s business.
That’s for real. More than the presidency is in play — so is Congress and the Supreme Court.
- Aldyth - Tuesday, Oct 16, 12 @ 11:29 am:
I wonder if those employers Dold spoke to realize that dumping their health insurance and telling employees to get it on their own is an invitation to a union?
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Oct 16, 12 @ 11:33 am:
So Dold has flipped on Grover Norquist? Good. He shouldn’t have signed a no-tax pledge in the first place, nor should any elected official.
Grover Norquist is almost single-handedly responsible for the gridlock in Washington. I just wish Dold’s repudiation of him was a trend, but I think it’s just a convenient way for Dold to pretend he’s not really a Republican, or at least not a Tea Party Republican. Just to be on the safe side though, I hope the voters go with Schneider.
Bob Dold, Independent (paid for by the Republican Party).
- amalia - Tuesday, Oct 16, 12 @ 11:39 am:
vote like that, you get what you deserve. there is no longer a Republican party. it is held hostage by those who want to control women’s bodies. it’s not just abortion folks, but birth control. and it is very scary. THEY hate our freedom.
- Shore - Tuesday, Oct 16, 12 @ 11:45 am:
latourette is retiring from congress, duckworth made a similar mistake when she went before the tribune editorial board and said she wanted to work with sullivan a congressman from oklahoma who was defeated in a primary 6 months before her tribune editorial board. You have to research your facts.
There’s no excuse for dems on schneider’s awfulness as a candidate, the competitiveness of the race, or his lack of funds. They had the pens to draw the map, it’s one of the best educated areas of the country with dazzling resumes and educations and resumes you don’t see in 99 percent of the country and he’s stunk up the joint and all they had to do was make 1 argument that their candidate was a vote for obama and dold was a vote for the tea party like democrats have made for 20 years and enabled them to win races like that and they can’t make it. It’s one of the wealthiest areas of the country and he’s badly outgunned financially which is inexplicable. In the abc7 debate they asked a question on Israel and schneider cites as his credentials and I quote “I had conversations with my wife about Iran and I attended meetings in college” that’s embarrassing.
- Plutocrat03 - Tuesday, Oct 16, 12 @ 11:46 am:
‘dumping their health insurance”
Precisely the problem with the Affordable Health Care Act. It is designed to move health insurance away from plans associated with jobs to independently purchased plans.
Look what is happening to the health care provided to retired workers. The benefit are changing from a supplemental policy to a stipend toward a supplemental policy. This is a specific example of unintended consequences of national legislation. Thanks Affordable Health Care Act.
Companies will follow their best interests within the law.
- Shore - Tuesday, Oct 16, 12 @ 11:46 am:
sorry the 2nd resume should have been deleted. computer issues.
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Oct 16, 12 @ 11:57 am:
===It is designed to move health insurance away from plans associated with jobs to independently purchased plans.===
I don’t think that’s a bug, I think it’s a feature. Jobs come and go, especially these days. The idea of health insurance tied to a job is an anachronism harking back to the days when you worked for the same company for 30 years and then retired. Other than government employees, who does that these days?
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Oct 16, 12 @ 12:04 pm:
When did access to contraception become an issue again? What year is this?
- Shore - Tuesday, Oct 16, 12 @ 12:49 pm:
It’s the year where Democrats don’t have anything else to talk about because the economy sucks, gas prices are way up, bin laden isn’t a defining issue, and obamacare isn’t selling so they need it to scare women voters into supporting them.
- Esquire - Tuesday, Oct 16, 12 @ 2:23 pm:
This is a totally lame attack. Dold is hardly a “Tea Party” activist nor or his constituents or most Republicans in the district. This type of distortion of reality is akin to saying Madison, Wisconsin is a bastion of conservatism in terms of its politics.
Get real, Schneider, it would be a different story if your opponent were Joe Walsh.
- DMAC - Tuesday, Oct 16, 12 @ 2:51 pm:
I don’t get how voting with your party 83% of the time (Thomas.gov) especially this Congress you get to have the label “moderate”…Hardly!
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Oct 16, 12 @ 2:55 pm:
Again with the Tea Party?
Please stop being so ridiculous.
The issue is jobs. For women voters, jobs is the number one issue by 42%. Claiming that Dold is subhuman regarding women’s rights is as silly as claiming Obama was born in Kenya.
Schneider isn’t doing himself a favor with these kinds of stupid ads.
Attack Dold on his positions regarding the economy and jobs, not being a “Tea Partier”.
How stupid do these people think voters are?
- amalia - Tuesday, Oct 16, 12 @ 2:58 pm:
@Shore stop trivializing women’s health issues and proclaiming that it is a scare tactic. it’s not. when the Republican Vice Presidential candidate has to change his position from no abortion ever, to abortion in the case of rape, incest and life of the mother, and we have to trust that he will never get his hands on the power lever, the worry is real. totally real.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Oct 16, 12 @ 5:10 pm:
–Attack Dold on his positions regarding the economy and jobs, not being a “Tea Partier”.–
Vman, do you have a problem with the Tea Party?
I thought they were the bee’s knees, the saviors of The Republic and The Constitution.
Now they’re bad news?
When did that happen?
You dance with the one that brung you, cousin.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Oct 16, 12 @ 6:29 pm:
Amalia, shout it from the rooftops, I’m with you all the way (it feels good to, finally, agree with you!).
The right-wing, stick-your-nose-in-someone-else’s-business attack on women is for real, and needs to be beaten down like a rented mule on Nov. 6.
Rep. Ryan, from Janesville, has tried to sugar up his position on women’s rights, saying it’s based on “science and reason.”
Are you kidding me?
He wants to put the federal government not only in your OB/GYN office, but also at your Walgreen’s and CVS prescription line.
He’s an Eddie Munster-goof from Janesville.
I’m an older Ronnie Van Zandt look-alike born down the road at St. Anthony’s in Rockford.
I have peeps in both towns, plus Stoughton, Freeport, Beloit, Belvidere and Madison.
Let me tell you — Rep. Ryan does not share my Midwestern values.
I’m pushing 50 and am the youngest among my first-generation siblings.
I’m a Norske man. My FarMor had 13 pregnancies (nine lived). My MorMor had 12 (nine lived).
My beautiful, brilliant grandmothers worked at hard labor and were pregnant all of their lives.
They did not have choices, unless the choices were rejecting the God-given human urge or the dictates of the male pezzonovantes of their times.
My FarMor, MorMor and mother are dead. But I have a wife. I have sisters. I have sister’s-in-law. I have a daughter. I have nieces. I have friends.
I will not sit still for ayatollahs like Todd Akin, or Rick Santorum, or Antonin Scalia, when they try to stick their noses in the women in my life’s business.
That’s for real. More than the presidency is in play — so is Congress and the Supreme Court.
Vote.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Oct 16, 12 @ 7:12 pm:
Dold is not a Tea Partier anymore than Rich Miller is a Birther. Dold is a moderate and that is why voters chose him two years ago.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Oct 16, 12 @ 7:21 pm:
–Dold is not a Tea Partier–
VMan, why are Tea Partiers like yourself so desperate to claim that GOPers that you’re sweet on are not what you want them to be?
Lose your Mojo, somewhere?