Capitol Fax.com - Your Illinois News Radar » NARAL buys a little cable time to blast Lipinski
SUBSCRIBE to Capitol Fax      Advertise Here      About     Exclusive Subscriber Content     Updated Posts    Contact Rich Miller
CapitolFax.com
To subscribe to Capitol Fax, click here.
NARAL buys a little cable time to blast Lipinski

Thursday, Nov 30, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller

* This is a $9,345 cable buy. Not much, but it’s enough to convince Roll Call to write a story

NARAL Pro-Choice America is launching a five-figure TV buy attacking Illinois Democrat Dan Lipinski on Thursday.

The ad, shared first with Roll Call, hits the congressman for voting against the 2010 health care law, opposing abortion rights and background check and same-sex marriage legislation. It will run on cable TV in his 3rd District for a week.

Lipinski is facing a primary challenge from marketing consultant Marie Newman, who secured the backing of NARAL, MoveOn.org, Democracy for America, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Human Rights Campaign on Tuesday. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s leadership PAC endorsed Newman earlier this month.

“Dan Lipinski is way out of step with his constituents and with Democratic party principles when it comes to women’s rights, LGBT equality, and the basic freedoms that Americans hold dear,” Mitchell Stille, NARAL’s National Campaign Director, said in a statement.

* The ad

In contrast, Dan Proft’s Liberty Principles PAC just bought its second week of $70,000+ in cable ads against House GOP Leader Jim Durkin. JB Pritzker’s latest cable buy was $55,605.

       

27 Comments
  1. - VanillaMan - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 3:16 pm:

    Made me want to vote for him.


  2. - Arsenal - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 3:25 pm:

    Little more than a glorified press release, but it got a press pop, so fair play to NARAL, I suppose.


  3. - State Sen. Clay Davis - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 3:26 pm:

    Every male Dem running against a female Dem should be very worried this primary cycle.


  4. - WS Mama - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 3:42 pm:

    I was polled on the Lipinski race about 6 weeks ago. A week later I started receiving Lipinski mailers. I now receive one multiple times a week. It is hard not to conclude the results of the poll were not as favorable to Lipinski expected.


  5. - WS Mama - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 3:43 pm:

    *as expected.


  6. - Ron - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 3:44 pm:

    Never liked Lipinski.


  7. - Ron - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 3:45 pm:

    A conservative, union guy. Time to retire him.


  8. - Stark - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 3:55 pm:

    Lipinski has outstayed his welcome. If it wasn’t this cycle, it’d be the next.


  9. - JoanP - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 3:59 pm:

    “This is a $9,345 cable buy.” “NARAL Pro-Choice America is launching a five-figure TV buy”

    In my world (and my bank’s world), “$9,345″ is not “five figures”. Close, but no cigar.


  10. - wordslinger - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 4:00 pm:

    I doubt this district will exist in the next map.


  11. - Anonymous - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 4:20 pm:

    Funny they try to use HR1217 in the 114th Congress against Lipinski. That actually was a bipartisan bill that every House Democrat cosponsored. Look it up. Beyond misleading.


  12. - mike - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 4:34 pm:

    I’m in his district and will be voting for his primary opponent, Marie Newman. I consider myself pragmatic and always held my nose and voted for him even though he’s always been wildly out of step with his constituents.

    This has never been a swingy seat. It’s always been solid Dem. Mrs. Clinton carried it by 15 points last year. We deserve a better congressperson who represents our views better.


  13. - Too Much to Handle - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 4:41 pm:

    Point 1: Lipinski isn’t going anywhere. He will win re-election easily.

    Point 2: Wordslinger - why would this district disappear in the next remap? Who do you think will be drawing the map? You think Madigan will be eliminating the district of one of his allies?

    Point 3: Democrats shouldn’t be cannibalizing each other at a time when they should be focused on taking on the Trump-led Republican party.


  14. - A guy - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 4:46 pm:

    NARAL “outed” Lipinski. Oh wait. They didn’t.


  15. - mike - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 4:50 pm:

    @Too Much to Handle

    RE: Point 3 - I totally disagree. We can do both. We should be electing more and *better* Democrats. There are a lot more progressives in Congress who represent districts that have more parity between the two parties, and some that have a Dem lean but still close. IL-3 isn’t one of them.

    We deserve better. But the problem is that Lipinski is too entrenched but next year will be the best chance progressives have at ousting him.


  16. - some gal - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 4:52 pm:

    Is this a NARAL or NRA ad? Lipinski is a cosponsor of that bill cited in the ad which would require background checks for all gun purchases.


  17. - Too Much to Handle - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 4:58 pm:

    Mike,

    Il - 3 is not a “progressive” district. Its an old fashioned, blue collar, working class Dem district. Lot of socially conservative Catholics here.


  18. - Jim - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 4:58 pm:

    Lipinski is an endangered pol who represents a district that Clinton easily carried last year. Dems Run blue dogs in conservative districts in the south. It’s absurd at how conservative Lipinski’s record is for representing a district that borders Chicago. If he wasn’t so entrenched he’d be a goner next year.


  19. - Mike - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 5:02 pm:

    “Lot of socially conservative Catholics here.“

    Hillary won this district by double digits last year. If Ms. Newman beat him in any other heat, she would comfortably win the seat. And that is not even factoring in the anti-Trump sentiment that will engulf next year’s election.


  20. - Mike - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 5:03 pm:

    Year*


  21. - ChrisB - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 5:07 pm:

    I live in this district, and there were more than a few Lipinski and Radogno signs in the same yard. I think NARAL is misreading this district, but that’s their prerogative to try and move Dems to the left. I just don’t think it’ll work.


  22. - Mike - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 5:15 pm:

    The district is not as conservative as people in this thread make it out to be. If it was, pro-choice Clinton wouldn’t have won by 15 points and pro-choice Obama wouldn’t have won it in 2012 by 13 points.

    It’s a working class blue collar district, sure, but it’s not that out of reach.


  23. - West Side the Best Side - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 5:38 pm:

    As,a long time resident of the area, if not the district as it has changed over the years, people did not vote for Clinton or Obama because they were pro-choice. They voted for them because they were Democrats. I think this is still a solidly “Richard J. Daley” type of Democratic district. Lipinski has run against right wing Republicans who have gotten nowhere, so it’s sure not a Trump district, but neither is it a Bernie district. I was not at happy about how he got the job years ago in the grand Chicago tradition of inheriting it from his father, but except for a primary a few terms back, he’s really never had too much of a problem because he does the work an old time congressman does of getting things done for his district. So I agree with ChrisB and Too Much to Handle and disagree (respectfully) with Mike. Maybe next time, but I think this is still a Lipinski district. Too many people with both feet solidly in the real world of making a living and not spending their time on MSNBC.


  24. - Monique - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 8:22 pm:

    If Dems let special interests run the show, the big tent becomes small, people leave, and they’ll lose more. Hillary didn’t win this District because of her support for late-term abortion, but in spite of it. NARAL’s trying to motivate their people, but might end up motivating the moderates instead.


  25. - Touré's Latte - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 8:50 pm:

    It’s his district, and Lipinski will be their rep as long as he wants to, just like his old man before him.


  26. - West Side the Best Side - Thursday, Nov 30, 17 @ 8:51 pm:

    Lived in the western suburbs most of my adult life, in and out of the 3d District as it got redrawn. The Democratic voters are Richard J. Daley Democrats. Obama and Clinton didn’t win because they were pro-choice but because they were Democrats. It may change, but it’s definitely not a “progressive/Bernie” district now.


  27. - Well Actually - Friday, Dec 1, 17 @ 11:49 am:

    The 3rd District went for Bernie Sanders by 8 points.


Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.


* Reader comments closed for the holiday weekend
* SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Update to today’s edition (Updated)
* Uber’s Local Partnership = Stress-Free Travel For Paratransit Riders
* IEA releases member poll, with eye on major pension upgrade
* Finally, a CTU fiscal proposal that doesn't involve magic beans
* Go read the rest
* As lawsuits and strike threats fly, Pritzker calls on Stellantis to live up to its commitments on Belvidere plant
* Today's quotable: George McCaskey
* Buried nugget and magic beans
* Open thread
* SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition and some campaign stuff
* SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password)
* Live coverage
* Selected press releases (Live updates)
* Yesterday's stories

Support CapitolFax.com
Visit our advertisers...

...............

...............

...............

...............

...............

...............


Loading


Main Menu
Home
Illinois
YouTube
Pundit rankings
Obama
Subscriber Content
Durbin
Burris
Blagojevich Trial
Advertising
Updated Posts
Polls

Archives
October 2024
September 2024
August 2024
July 2024
June 2024
May 2024
April 2024
March 2024
February 2024
January 2024
December 2023
November 2023
October 2023
September 2023
August 2023
July 2023
June 2023
May 2023
April 2023
March 2023
February 2023
January 2023
December 2022
November 2022
October 2022
September 2022
August 2022
July 2022
June 2022
May 2022
April 2022
March 2022
February 2022
January 2022
December 2021
November 2021
October 2021
September 2021
August 2021
July 2021
June 2021
May 2021
April 2021
March 2021
February 2021
January 2021
December 2020
November 2020
October 2020
September 2020
August 2020
July 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
March 2020
February 2020
January 2020
December 2019
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
June 2019
May 2019
April 2019
March 2019
February 2019
January 2019
December 2018
November 2018
October 2018
September 2018
August 2018
July 2018
June 2018
May 2018
April 2018
March 2018
February 2018
January 2018
December 2017
November 2017
October 2017
September 2017
August 2017
July 2017
June 2017
May 2017
April 2017
March 2017
February 2017
January 2017
December 2016
November 2016
October 2016
September 2016
August 2016
July 2016
June 2016
May 2016
April 2016
March 2016
February 2016
January 2016
December 2015
November 2015
October 2015
September 2015
August 2015
July 2015
June 2015
May 2015
April 2015
March 2015
February 2015
January 2015
December 2014
November 2014
October 2014
September 2014
August 2014
July 2014
June 2014
May 2014
April 2014
March 2014
February 2014
January 2014
December 2013
November 2013
October 2013
September 2013
August 2013
July 2013
June 2013
May 2013
April 2013
March 2013
February 2013
January 2013
December 2012
November 2012
October 2012
September 2012
August 2012
July 2012
June 2012
May 2012
April 2012
March 2012
February 2012
January 2012
December 2011
November 2011
October 2011
September 2011
August 2011
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
April 2011
March 2011
February 2011
January 2011
December 2010
November 2010
October 2010
September 2010
August 2010
July 2010
June 2010
May 2010
April 2010
March 2010
February 2010
January 2010
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
December 2005
April 2005
March 2005
February 2005
January 2005
December 2004
November 2004
October 2004

Blog*Spot Archives
November 2005
October 2005
September 2005
August 2005
July 2005
June 2005
May 2005

Syndication

RSS Feed 2.0
Comments RSS 2.0




Hosted by MCS SUBSCRIBE to Capitol Fax Advertise Here Mobile Version Contact Rich Miller