Casten outraises Roskam two-to-one
Thursday, Oct 4, 2018 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Buried deep within a Sun-Times story is a choice little nugget…
Third-quarter fundraising totals will be released by the FEC in mid-October. On Wednesday, Casten’s campaign said he raised $2.6 million, compared to Roskam’s campaign haul of $1.3 million.
Wow. You’d think a member of the House Ways and Means Committee in a tough reelection fight would raise a lot more money than that.
* But, he may not need it as much as Casten does…
Roskam had more money in the bank at the end of the summer, reporting $2,337,558 to $646,750 for Casten.
* Then again…
The House Majority PAC aligned with U.S. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is pouring more money into the suburbs’ two pivotal Congressional campaigns in an effort to flip two Republican-controlled districts. […]
And the same group is spending about $1.9 million for a new commercial targeting U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam in the neighboring 6th District, where Democrat Sean Casten is challenging the incumbent in an expensive duel drawing significant national attention. […]
The DCCC spent nearly $400,000 on advertising in the last two weeks of September. The [Congressional Leadership Fund, backed by Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan] spent about $214,000 during the same period. The Casten campaign also benefited from about $75,000 in spending by Planned Parenthood Votes.
* And in another hot race…
* Related…
* Roskam, Casten disagree on lifting payroll tax cap for Social Security: Casten says solving the Social Security problem will require lifting the payroll tax cap on income that is levied to support the program. The cap now stands at $128,400. Roskam says that change would hurt many 6th District taxpayers, who are far from extravagantly wealthy, and could harm entrepreneurs the most. He says the move would simply be a tax increase, and “a bad idea” at that.
