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| Will the son of Richard J. ... |
But
Biss’ campaign fund doesn’t even come close to that of J.B. Pritzker, who
barely raised a dime. The 9-1 fundraising advantage Pritzker held over Biss during
the past three months was solely because Pritzker was wealthy enough to pay for
his own campaign efforts.
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| ... be able to provide this Kennedy nephew ... |
WHICH
MEANS DEMOCRATS may well have a candidate who won’t get totally buried by the
self-funding efforts of Gov. Bruce Rauner, who himself outspends Pritzker by a
6-1 ratio with the money he provides – although much of the governor's efforts will go
toward trying to get more Republicans elected to the General Assembly.
Rauner
wants allies who will support his gubernatorial desires and follow orders!
There’s
going to be a lot of money spent by candidates wishing to spread their messages
of ill-will toward their opposition. We’re going to be flooded with negative
messages about how we’d be completely stupid to consider casting ballots for
certain candidates.
Better
we should go with THE OTHER guy. Nobody’s going to really tell us why we should
vote for them. It will be an ugly campaign.
THAT
IS WHY I find it interesting to see that Kennedy’s campaign has hired a new
finance chairman – it’s Bill Daley, as in brother of Mayor Richard M., former
chief of staff to President Barack Obama, Commerce secretary under President
Bill Clinton.
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| ... with similar political aid as in '60 cycle? |
And
let’s not forget that he was chairman of Al Gore’s failed presidential campaign
of 2000.
Of
course, as a former chairman of Amalgamated Bank, he has ties to many of the “big
money” people of Chicago and can sway them into making significant campaign
contributions to his candidate.
Which
may well be the reason why Kennedy picked him. His is the campaign that raised
$703,767.10 during the last reporting period, and spent $652,523.79 of it. This
is not a campaign swimming in cash.
KENNEDY
PROBABLY DREAMS that Daley can turn to his political contacts and get them to
write out the significant-sized checks that would enable his campaign to come
close to fully competing with the Pritzkers and Rauners of the political world.
Although
it may be the general mood of this campaign season that we, the people, are too
disgusted with government officials to want to make any kind of sizable
donations. It may be that only the self-funded will be able to do much of
anything.
That
does seem to be the mentality of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan,
D-Chicago, who while he hasn’t made an official endorsement seems to like the
idea of a Candidate Pritzker because he could afford to pay his own way.
Consider
that Pritzker spent some $9 million during the past three months, and $14
million total thus far – all of which came from his own bank accounts.
BUT
IT ALSO would be ironic if it turns out to be that a Daley winds up making it
possible for a Kennedy to win voters in Illinois. You just know we’re going to
get a ton of sarcastic comments from people recalling the rumor mill of the
1960 presidential election cycle.
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| BISS: Raised more than anyone, but nobody cares? |
Can
the son of Richard J. find a way to make the nephew of JFK the governor, similar
to how old man Daley led the effort that got Jack Kennedy the Illinois
Electoral College votes that helped him beat Richard Nixon for president?
Or
is Kennedy just too far behind (even outraised by the state senator from Evanston)?
Although we should acknowledge the polls that have shown at this early stage
Kennedy still leads Pritzker and other candidates in voter support – the name
does appear to mean something.
Particularly
when one considers the most recent Morning Consult poll that showed Rauner with
49 percent disapproval rating (and only 40 percent approving of him). If he
keeps that up, it may not matter how much money he spends on himself – a Democrat
could wind up prevailing come that Nov. 6 of next year.
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