Question of the day
Thursday, Oct 24, 2019 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Politico…
Some Florida Republicans are nudging state Sen. Jim Oberweis to run for the congressional seat in the Sunshine state now held by Rep. Francis Rooney, who announced his retirement over the weekend.
Oberweis has a home in Florida, so while far-fetched, the idea isn’t totally impossible.
“There’s a push from Republicans in that district. All he’d have to do is move down there and he’d win,” Oberweis’ spokesman Travis Akin said.
But Oberweis is focused on the Republican nomination for Illinois’ 14th Congressional District, the seat now held by Democratic Rep. Lauren Underwood.
Rooney lives in Naples. Oberweis has a place in Bonita Springs.
Florida law requires congressional candidates to be a “resident of the state when elected.”
And even though an Oberweis congressional bid in Florida is apparently not gonna happen, we can still have some fun with it.
* The Question: Your suggested Jim Oberweis in Florida campaign slogans?
- Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 1:56 pm:
Oberweis is a Sherbet for Florida
- Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 1:57 pm:
Jim Oberweis: He’s Florida Man Enough
- JS Mill - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:00 pm:
Oberwies for Congress: “Maybe Florida?”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:00 pm:
Jim Oberweis - Now My Wife Can vote For Me
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:01 pm:
Jim Oberweis - Which Stadium Do I Fly Over Here.
- Ducky LaMoore - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:01 pm:
This milk’s gone south.
- City Zen - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:02 pm:
Enough to fill Doak Campbell Stadium every single week.
- Jocko - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:04 pm:
Don’t drop ice cream on the carpet(bagger).
- Dysfunction Junction - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:04 pm:
Oberweis: Like milk in your orange juice.
- Alan Keyes - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:04 pm:
This is best they could do at the time.
- The Real Captain - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:07 pm:
Oberweis: A glass a day will keep Obama Care away!
- Strategy Geek - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:08 pm:
Oberweis: If everyone who moved to Florida after failing Up North votes for me, I’ve got it made in the ‘Glades.
- Steve - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:08 pm:
Jim Oberweis : A man who takes lactose intolerance people very seriously.
- Norseman - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:10 pm:
Oberweis: He’ll milk it for as long as he can.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:10 pm:
Jim Oberweis - I’m Old, Angry, White, and Rich, Why Not a Carpetbagger Too?
- Annonin - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:10 pm:
Assuming the ChopperJim ads were shipped to FL?
Sunk him here guessing it would do the same there
- 47th Ward - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:11 pm:
Jim Oberweis: because Dennis Byrne said no.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:12 pm:
Jim Oberweis - I’ll Melt Your Ice Cream With My Politics
- Dysfunction Junction - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:15 pm:
Oberweis: The Milkman Cometh
- Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:16 pm:
Jim Oberweis and Pythons: Two Imported Nuisances
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:16 pm:
Jim Oberweis - The Cream Rises For Purity
- A guy - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:16 pm:
He’ll have to run for Governor a couple times and US Senator there first. Then the people of SW Florida can have their champion of the people.
- Red Ranger - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:19 pm:
To update his commercials for Southwest Florida, it will be him in a rascal, circling the Hertz Arena saying, “I’ve annoyed enough people in Illinois to fill this stadium, every year. Now its your turn Florida. Im Jim Oberweis and I approve this message.
BTW, kudos to Travis Akin for getting Politico to bite on a completely made up story. There are exactly zero Florida Republicans in Florida clamoring for Oberwies to move there officially and run. There will be at least 4 Florida legislators, 5 used car dealers and 3 Morgan and Morgan attorneys running in the GOP primary. I think the Florida GOP has this one covered without the Milkman.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:20 pm:
Jim Oberweis - Orange You Glad I’m Gonna Be Your Congressman?
- 47th Ward - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:28 pm:
Replace a Rooney with a Loony.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:34 pm:
Jim Oberweis: Still better than Alan Keyes
- A Young Person - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:34 pm:
Jim Oberweis: Illinois’ Second Biggest Fan of Chocolate Milk
- Noah - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:36 pm:
Florida Rep. Jim Obwerwies - Because No One in Illinois Wanted Me
- Alfalfa - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:42 pm:
Oberweis: My milkshake is better than yours.
- NIref - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:46 pm:
Eighth time’s the charm.
- blublood - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:46 pm:
Sounds like the rise of the carpet baggers are back
- Skeptic - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:47 pm:
Milk: The other orange juice.
- JS Mill - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:47 pm:
Jim Oberwies- another invasive species.
- JS Mill - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:47 pm:
Jim Oberweis- Failing down for FLA.
- OutOfState - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:53 pm:
Oberweis - Risking my life to represent YOU
- Almost the weekend - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 2:58 pm:
Jim Oberweis - Carpetbagger, but free ice cream
- train111 - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 3:00 pm:
Flori - duh
Because some of us don’t care about your past campaigns.
- 100 miles west - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 3:00 pm:
Oberweis, Florida’s newest invasive non-native species
- Father Ted - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 3:03 pm:
Oberweis: Uberyankee
- Amalia - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 3:04 pm:
Oberweis. No translation needed.
- Henry Francis - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 3:06 pm:
When President Trump wants an extra scoop of ice cream, he makes it Oberweis.
- Boone's is Back - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 3:36 pm:
Jim Oberweis for Florida, because Milk was a bad choice.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 3:41 pm:
Keep pushing Florida GOP.
Sincerely,
ILGOP
- Skeptic - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 3:50 pm:
“A Florida man…”
- Flyer - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 3:51 pm:
Overweight - only if your favorite flavor is vanilla
- Skeptic - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 3:51 pm:
“A State Senator, a failed Senate candidate and a failed Gubernatorial candidate walk into a bar…”
- SAP - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 4:02 pm:
Down here I really am a Young Gun
- Groundhog Day - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 4:25 pm:
Oberweis and Florida: a match made in heaven.
Best of luck to both of you.
- Mittuns - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 4:30 pm:
Oberweis for Florida, because who needs the sun to get your daily dose of Vitamin D.
- Nitemayor - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 4:30 pm:
Oberweis: The Neopolitan Favorite.
- Just Saying - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 4:39 pm:
Please Move
- Ipso Facto - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 5:03 pm:
Oberweis: Got Migrants?
- flea - Thursday, Oct 24, 19 @ 6:17 pm:
He’s got the very best milk.