March 6, 2020
Dear editor;
This letter is meant for Republicans who intend to vote in the March 17 14th District congressional primary.
Please do not allow Jim Oberweis to buy yet another Republican primary with his personal, unassailable millions of dollars…only to get crushed again after six failures, by his Democrat opponent in the 2020 General Election.
Of course, he’s free to spend his inherited ice cream and earned pharmaceutical companies and Chinese investment money in any way he wishes. However, you and I should have better sense than to continue losing General Elections because he buys the primaries with your vote.
• In 2002, spent $1,539,000; lost general election;
• In 2004, spent $3,381,000; lost general election;
• In 2006, spent $2,487,000; lost general election;
• In 2008, spent $3,555,000; lost special election;
• In 2008, spent $1,529,000; lost general election;
• In 2014, spent $2,417,000; lost general election.
If you didn’t like what former governor Bruce Rauner did to the Republican Party with his $60 Million and political incompetence; if you don’t like what Pritzker is doing to Illinois government with his $170 Million and extreme liberal policies; then why would you allow another rich, old guy to do it to you again in the 14th congressional primary?
There will be some who say, “Chris, you’re just sore that he spent $3.6 Million to slime your family in the 2008 Republican primary.” I guess I would agree with them; however, 2020 is very different for all of us.
Unlike the past, this time Oberweis won’t have a powerful Denny Hastert to endorse him and to legitimize his inordinate spending. Coach Denny has been disgraced and labelled by one judge as a “serial child molester”. He and Oberweis make quite the pair of politicians. And, this year, even Oberweis will not be profligate enough to triple the $1,000,000 he has already loaned his campaign to match 2008.
If any Republican thinks that what I write is too harsh, then you really have no accurate idea what the Democrats and their fawning handmaidens in the establishment media will unload against the candidate whom they already have labelled “The Milk Dud”. They’ll make mincemeat out of him and stop our chances to win back that congressional seat.
But the very clever “Milk Dud” does save on his spouse’s portion of Illinois income tax. As a Florida resident, Oberweis’ wife won’t be voting for Jim, so why should you? Let’s give ourselves a fighting chance in November!
Chris Lauzen, Kane County Board chairman
Former Illinois State senator