Rep. Robert Dold (R-Kenilworth) outraised his Democratic opponent, Brad Schneider of Deerfield, by $135,396 for the quarter ending June 30, according to releases from both campaigns.
Schneider, with $567,000 cash on hand for the Nov. 6 general election contest against Dold, currently has just over a quarter of the war chest Dold has accumulated since he was elected in 2010. The Congressman has $2.1 million in the bank.
For the quarter, Dold brought in $717,396 while Schneider raised $582,000, according to the news releases.
Since he stated his campaign, Schneider has accumulated $1,517,840 but had to spend heavily to win a contested four-way primary in March, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Without a contested primary, Dold began his fundraising efforts shortly after his election and has taken in $2,934,913 for the current election cycle, according to FEC reports.
Both Schneider and Dold raised the bulk of their money locally. Statewide donors provided 82 percent of Dold’s funds and 80 percent of Schneider’s money, according to the separate news releases. Sixty five percent of Schneider’s haul came from first-time donors.
The campaign promises to be an expensive one. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and other Democratic leaning groups have committed $5.7 million to advertising in the Chicago market for three contested House races after Sept. 1.
Republican groups have yet to reserve television time in the Chicago market.
In addition to the 10th Congressional District, the DCCC has targeted the 8th and 11th Districts.
Bob Dold Which is more likely to keep us on the path of $trillion annual deficits, job killing regulations, increase entitlements and dependency, wasteful spending, arbitrary bullying governance, and the corrosive tactic of dividing the country for political gain? Brad Schneider
"Taxpayer Protection Pledge I, _______________, pledge to the taxpayers of the _____ district of the state of__________, and to the American people that I will: ONE, oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses; and TWO, oppose any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates."
The right loves to talk about nanny state and sheep and towing the line of the govt. You throw out super extremes to make yourselves sound like the only voice of reason. I lean very much to left on most issues...I'm not on welfare, I'm not sucking up govt funds, and I have no problem with some of the taxes I pay going to help the less fortunate. Of course their are leaches on the systems and that is wrong and should be addressed, but I have known too many people who have gotten back on their feet thanks to those programs to say they are bad.
And Like I said above cutting off funding for PP is not cutting off your choices as a women. If you make irresponsible decisions then you should pay for it not me or the other tax payers. And yes I lump these all together because they are my personal choices and freedoms, guns don't kill people, people kill people. But Abortions do kill unborn babies....... and I still think a women should have that right to a choice. Even though that unborn baby does not.......
Gary, Norquist limits them to even getting rid of loopholes if it raises net revenue. Loopholes for BP a foreign number one or two revenue company and we let them pay lower taxes. No flexibility from Norquist and some Republicans are revolting from the pledge and willing to compromise for the country. Not Dold.
WASHINGTON -- An ardent opponent of the federal stimulus plan showed up Monday in Winnetka, Ill., to smile and cut the ribbon at a ceremony unveiling a local project funded by that very stimulus. "Originally built in the 1940s, the [train] station not only got a facelift but three heated platform warming shelters, two new elevators and a new pedestrian bridge to allow commuters to wait in the station and then quickly cross over the tracks to the Chicago-bound platform," Winnetka-Glencoe Patch reported Tuesday morning.
Those "Freeriders" were the poor uninsured until last week......lol And tell that to the Govt lawyers who argued that it was a TAX. Once again the Dems want it both ways. you really cant make this stuff up if you tried. And IL is dead broke so when the expansion of medicare coverage by the Feds is gone in 5 years, that's more Billions IL does not have and can not afford.
For really Big Time rigging, though, you have to go to the national level and see the their rigging attempts in the November election to favor Romney via the Voter Supression laws they've enacted in states with Republican Governors, a fact which a couple of them have even been stupid enough to openly admit!
Thank goodness, at least, that Santorum got sent back to the Dark Ages and Governor Probe had to rescind his law due to an ONSLAUGHT of protest by women in the congress and in his state. Obama is currently leading Romney by at least Ten points...Keep going, Repubs, we're loving it!