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illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
... Main Street on the parade route. -- Republicans Bucholz, Fortner, Hultgren, Kachiroubas, Larsen, Oberweis, and Zay and the Winfield Township Republican Organization walk in outstanding Warrenville Independence Day parade - Dave Diersen www.gopillinois.com Outstanding Republicans Fred Bucholz, Mike Fortner, Randy Hultgren, Chris Kachiroubas, Bob Larsen, Jim Oberweis, and Jim Zay and...
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illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
... new Progress Illinois blog by ICIRR's ED Joshua Hoyt , who claimed Bill Foster's victory over Jim Oberweis in March's special election in the 14th CD, based on the huge Latino voter turnout in Aurora. Hoyt wrote: On March 8, Foster won the race with a convincing 5,000 vote margin, 53 percent to 47 percent. Dozens of Latino and immigrant activists were working to “Get Out The Vote” for Foster...
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Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
... For Me . She also was a vocal supporter of the virulently anti-immigrant Republican candidate Jim Oberweis in the IL-14 race against Bill Foster to replace Denny Hastert -- a guy McCain endorsed and stumped for. So Pulido filed a scathing report at Free Republic about the meeting with "Juan McCain": John Mc Cain's favorite words of the evening were Comprehensive Immigration Reform. But he...
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illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
... be introduced when I asked for this smiley face. 14th district Republican congressional candidate Jim Oberweis was spotted talking to McLean County Republican Chairman John Parrot. Chicago's only Republican State Representative, Mike McAuliffe, was kind enough to pose for this shot. He says I can't write anything bad about him if I use it. I also found State Rep. Chapin Rose, who represents...
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DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
After the loss of Denny Hastert's old seat in northern Illinois, Republican congressional leaders-- especially Boehner and Cole, started looking for scapegoats. They quickly settled on blaming the candidate. Jim Oberweis was, after all, demonstrably terrible, even if the Republican Party fully embraced him and sent McCain into the district to show what his coattails were worth (nothing, as it...
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Earn More Money (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Friday, June 13, 2008 E-mail to a Friend Compliments of New Hot Off the Tape Weekly Video E-mail—Sign Up Today Free! Jon Markman (Thurs., Jun. 12) .....GMET Jim Oberweis (Thurs., Jun. 12) .....STAR, TRLG Jim Lowell (Wed., Jun. 11) .....AGG, HYG, LAG George Putnam (Wed., Jun. 11) .....ORI Nikhil Hutheesing (Tues., Jun. 10) .....TXN Mark Fightmaster (Tues., Jun. 10) .....ETN James Trippon (Mon.,...
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DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
... on a major party or else with multimillionaires who just bought the nomination. In the case of Jim Oberweis, it was a combination of both and the GOP lost a red bastion in exurban Illinois. That was quickly followed by two more horrid far right candidates in Louisiana and Mississippi, both of whom lost overwhelmingly Republican districts. Rather than look at the kinds of negative campaigns...
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Dump Michele Bachmann (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
... race to replace former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert in Illinois in March. Republican Jim Oberweis stridently opposed the research, and he lost to Democrat Bill Foster in a district Bush had carried by wide margins in 2000 and 2004. Cook said that election, and another surprise loss for the Republicans in Louisiana, "sent the GOP an unmistakable signal that the party's 25-year-old...
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American Spectator (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
... Hastert's seat fell to the Democrats when political neophyte Bill Foster defeated Republican Jim Oberweis in an Illinois district that voted 54 percent for George W. Bush in 2004. Democrat Don Cazayoux edged out Republican Woody Jenkins in Louisiana, picking up a seat formerly held by Republican Russell Baker in a district Bush carried with 59 percent. The district that elected Childers...
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DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
... Hastert and Richard Baker, would have voted, and exactly how the 2 Republican schlubs they beat, Jim Oberweis and Woody KKK-pecker, would have voted. In other words, they voted to keep the war going by agreeing to fund it. A bare majority of Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi though not warmongers Steny Hoyer and Rahm Emanuel, voted against the funding bill. With Pelosi off in Iraq , Hulse's...
