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*** UPDATED x1 - Checked wrong box *** Oberweis files FEC paperwork to run for US Senate in 2020
Monday, Feb 18, 2019 - Posted by Rich Miller [Comments are now open on this post.] *** UPDATE *** I just talked to Sen. Oberweis. He says the person who filed the paperwork for him accidentally checked the wrong box. He’s running for US Congress, not US Senate. …Adding… Tribune…
* He had been talking about running for Congress against freshman Democrat Lauren Underwood…
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- UpperDownstate - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 9:31 am:
Not to knock Underwood, but didn’t she win because Hultgren fumbled and bumbled up into November? Not a good look for Jim2020 to mess up even the most menial of tasks out the gate
- Ron Burgundy - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 9:32 am:
Oh great. I’m sure he won’t do or say anything cringeworthy running against Rep. Underwood. /s
- Soccermom - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 9:32 am:
The Abominable Milkman strikes again…
- Colin O'Scopy - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 9:35 am:
Can we just go ahead and call this race already?
Underwood: 90%
Oberweis: 4%
Write-in candidates: 6%
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 9:39 am:
I just assumed that Obie always checked the boxes for every race and hoped for the best.
Some interesting numbers for the 14th:
2012: Hultgren +19, Romney +10
2014: Hultgren +32
2016: Hultgren +19, Trump +4
2018: Underwood +5
That’s a remarkable, quick change from bedrock safe GOP to competitive, in a district that’s 86% white.
- Terry Salad - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 9:40 am:
If he can’t check a box correctly, how can he represent IL in Congress?
- Notorious RBG - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 9:56 am:
And they’re off… to go re-file paperwork.
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 10:17 am:
Checking the Wrong Boxes could be a good title for an Oberweis biography.
- Columbo - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 10:54 am:
Well played 47th. Maybe that checked box could be blown up and put on the back of a milk carton…
- Deadbeat Conservative - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 10:57 am:
Commenters here are “milking” OB’s mistake for everything it’s worth. ;-}
- Blocked for a Pun - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 11:04 am:
Really Rich?
- Rahm's Parking Meter - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 11:15 am:
Milk, it does your body good - Oberweis election chances, not so much.
- A 400lb. Guy on a bed - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 11:42 am:
If Jim cannot do the little things right…
- Stumpy's bunker - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 1:06 pm:
It’s bad enough that Oberweis “represents” a consituency of Illinoisans in Illinois state government. You do not want this man anywhere near the workings of our national government.
I’ve had dealings with him; so has dozens of downstate GOP county chairmen in previous primaries and elections.
- Nonbeleiver - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 2:00 pm:
One would think that Underwood would be quite vulnerable.
But bet she is hoping that Oberweis will the Republican candidate running agaisnt her.