Today, Laura Fine released her closing ad, “All,” which will run on broadcast television and digital for the remainder of the campaign.
TRANSCRIPT:
My opponents think false attacks can make me back down—they don’t know me at all.
My husband almost died in a car accident. He went through ten surgeries.
And while I held our young family together, the insurance company tried to drop us.
I took ‘em on and won.
Then, I ran for office, passing laws to protect all families.
I’m Laura Fine. I approve this message.
When it comes to stopping Trump, and passing Medicare for All, I’ll never back down.
Chicagoland Progressive Congressional Candidates Demand AIPAC-Backed Challengers Come Clean on Iran War
CHICAGO – Last week, the Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ published an investigation into millions of dollars flowing from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) into the campaigns and allied super PACs of four Illinois congressional candidates: Donna Miller (IL-2), Melissa Conyears-Ervin (IL-7), Melissa Bean (IL-8), and Laura Fine (IL-9). Then, on Saturday, the United States and Israel went to war with Iran, with AIPAC’s full-throated support.
Since the war began, all four AIPAC-backed candidates have issued vague statements of general disapproval, but none have answered the simple question: given AIPAC’s relentless Iran warmongering, do you disavow its support of your campaign?
Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC-endorsed candidates Robert Peters (IL-2), Anthony Driver Jr. (IL-7), Junaid Ahmed (IL-8), and Daniel Biss (IL-9) responded with a joint statement:
“Donald Trump has dragged us into an unnecessary and illegal regime change war fully backed by AIPAC. Here in Chicagoland, four AIPAC-funded candidates are trying to hide that support while dodging straightforward questions. In a time of war, clarity is not optional. Will these candidates finally and unequivocally reject AIPAC’s pro-war agenda?”
C+ — I’m disappointed. 13 years in the legislature and several years as a local elected official and she is in a congressional campaign where she is running from behind and this is what they come up with? That car accident was in 2010. *squints* After she was already elected to public office? Sure, it wasn’t the legislature but come on now.
I don’t think this is the ad that does it.
I think the Senator could have made a better argument and a better appeal to voters.
Maybe her red box will have some other ideas on how to market her candidacy for congress.
Solid closing ad. Gives the, why you should vote for her pitch. Doesn’t call out any specific opponent. Obviously, hating Trump is polling #1 with what folks in the district want to hear, guessing healthcare is pretty high up in those results as well.
Sounds a little like the Chicagoland Progressives are supporting keeping the OG’s of Iran’s government in power by complaining about regime change.
Which in turn will lead to the continuation of the massacre of the Iranian people. Should’ve framed that letter a bit better.
A+ ad by Laura Fine. I wish I could vote for her. I find the anti AIPAC attacks on her to be troublesome and misleading. She has a solidly progressive voting record and is effective as a lawmaker.
First, Fine does need to pivot away from Trump and AIPAC, this is an early but necessary shift into positive gear.
I do expect that the negative AIPAC ads will continue and that means pivoting will fail.
What’s dangerous about the ad is a few things.
First: according to interviews with her husband, he had 8 surgeries not 10. Not a big deal but it calls everything into question.
Secondly, he was hit by a concrete truck that crossed the center line. So, while he did indeed have medical bills piling up, was there any danger that his family was going to be bankrupted? I’ve got to believe that he received a 7 figure settlement. I guess now that the issue is part of the campaign, Matt Eadie can ask “how did you end up paying all of those bills?”
As for the loss of insurance, as already mentioned Laura was already an elected official, even if he lost private sector coverage I would bet he could move to the state no problem. Again: “Ask Eadie.”
Let me state unequivocally that Michael Fine’s recovery from losing his arm is remarkable if not heroic. But he is not running for Congress. The driver behind him who stopped, called 911, stopped the bleeding shoulder and apparently even recovered the severed arm was heroic. According to Mr fine, doctors told him he would have bled out in ten minutes otherwise.
What Senator Fine did - battling insurers, supporting her husband’s recovery - definitely makes her relatable but no less heroic than every other family in America who has ever experienced a major illness or injury because we have all battled the insurance companies.
The ad goes to far I think, and seems like a case of “Stolen Valor” to me and that can always backfire, but with two weeks who knows. I think they realize how far behind they are and that they could not stop with “I feel your pain” and had to try to
Turn her into a superhero. It’s a gamble.
My guess is all of the spending on negative ads by AIPAC means this piece does not really cut through the clutter. I am kind of surprised they did not lead with this add to define her, and instead let her be defined by her association to AIPAC.
B-. Up until this race I have really liked Laura Fine. She’s been an effective state senator. This ad does a good job reinforcing her origin story and reminding folks in the district that she has been a good advocate on healthcare issues.
What drops it to a B- is the very first sentence.
“My opponents think false attacks can make me back down…”
The main attack against Fine during this campaign, and the reason I simply cannot vote for her, is that she has chosen to enter into a pact with a group that refuses to identify itself in which she gets millions and millions of dollars of anonymous money in exchange for… What? I don’t know and no one else does either. But no one gives a candidate $5 million and counting with no expectation in return.
That isn’t a “false attack” as she claims. She made her bed.
- Candy Dogood - Monday, Mar 2, 26 @ 2:28 pm:
C+ — I’m disappointed. 13 years in the legislature and several years as a local elected official and she is in a congressional campaign where she is running from behind and this is what they come up with? That car accident was in 2010. *squints* After she was already elected to public office? Sure, it wasn’t the legislature but come on now.
I don’t think this is the ad that does it.
I think the Senator could have made a better argument and a better appeal to voters.
Maybe her red box will have some other ideas on how to market her candidacy for congress.
- Frida's Boss - Monday, Mar 2, 26 @ 2:39 pm:
Solid closing ad. Gives the, why you should vote for her pitch. Doesn’t call out any specific opponent. Obviously, hating Trump is polling #1 with what folks in the district want to hear, guessing healthcare is pretty high up in those results as well.
Sounds a little like the Chicagoland Progressives are supporting keeping the OG’s of Iran’s government in power by complaining about regime change.
Which in turn will lead to the continuation of the massacre of the Iranian people. Should’ve framed that letter a bit better.
- low level - Monday, Mar 2, 26 @ 3:13 pm:
A+ ad by Laura Fine. I wish I could vote for her. I find the anti AIPAC attacks on her to be troublesome and misleading. She has a solidly progressive voting record and is effective as a lawmaker.
- Uptown Sinclair - Monday, Mar 2, 26 @ 3:29 pm:
I am going to rate this add “D” for Dangerous.
First, Fine does need to pivot away from Trump and AIPAC, this is an early but necessary shift into positive gear.
I do expect that the negative AIPAC ads will continue and that means pivoting will fail.
What’s dangerous about the ad is a few things.
First: according to interviews with her husband, he had 8 surgeries not 10. Not a big deal but it calls everything into question.
Secondly, he was hit by a concrete truck that crossed the center line. So, while he did indeed have medical bills piling up, was there any danger that his family was going to be bankrupted? I’ve got to believe that he received a 7 figure settlement. I guess now that the issue is part of the campaign, Matt Eadie can ask “how did you end up paying all of those bills?”
As for the loss of insurance, as already mentioned Laura was already an elected official, even if he lost private sector coverage I would bet he could move to the state no problem. Again: “Ask Eadie.”
Let me state unequivocally that Michael Fine’s recovery from losing his arm is remarkable if not heroic. But he is not running for Congress. The driver behind him who stopped, called 911, stopped the bleeding shoulder and apparently even recovered the severed arm was heroic. According to Mr fine, doctors told him he would have bled out in ten minutes otherwise.
What Senator Fine did - battling insurers, supporting her husband’s recovery - definitely makes her relatable but no less heroic than every other family in America who has ever experienced a major illness or injury because we have all battled the insurance companies.
The ad goes to far I think, and seems like a case of “Stolen Valor” to me and that can always backfire, but with two weeks who knows. I think they realize how far behind they are and that they could not stop with “I feel your pain” and had to try to
Turn her into a superhero. It’s a gamble.
My guess is all of the spending on negative ads by AIPAC means this piece does not really cut through the clutter. I am kind of surprised they did not lead with this add to define her, and instead let her be defined by her association to AIPAC.
- Skokie Man - Monday, Mar 2, 26 @ 3:34 pm:
B-. Up until this race I have really liked Laura Fine. She’s been an effective state senator. This ad does a good job reinforcing her origin story and reminding folks in the district that she has been a good advocate on healthcare issues.
What drops it to a B- is the very first sentence.
“My opponents think false attacks can make me back down…”
The main attack against Fine during this campaign, and the reason I simply cannot vote for her, is that she has chosen to enter into a pact with a group that refuses to identify itself in which she gets millions and millions of dollars of anonymous money in exchange for… What? I don’t know and no one else does either. But no one gives a candidate $5 million and counting with no expectation in return.
That isn’t a “false attack” as she claims. She made her bed.
- Uptown Sinclair - Monday, Mar 2, 26 @ 3:34 pm:
=== then, I ran for office ===
My Correction: she was Township Clerk at the time of the accident.