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NRCC Withholds Money After New Hampshire Republican Says She Won #39;t Vote for Speaker Boehner
Marilinda Garcia, running for Congress in New Hampshire #39;s 2nd congressional district, says she may not vote for Speaker Boehner to continue as Speaker. Next, the NRCC decides to withhold funds...
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James Shalleck, the Republican candidate for Montgomery county executive, was recently approached by a woman at a campaign stop who felt compelled to explain why she would never support him.
She said she wouldnt vote for me because of Ted Cruzs position on immigration, he said, referring to the Republican senator from Texas who opposes amnesty for undocumented immigrants.
I said, What do you want from me? Shalleck recalled, his exasperated tone still rich with the intonations of his native New York.
Shalleck, who will face two-term incumbent Isiah Leggett (D) on Nov. 4, has been at the bottom of this mountain before. Since 1994, hes run three times for states attorney and once for judge in a county where registered Democrats have a 3-to-1 advantage over Republicans. The last time a GOP county executive held office was 1978.
Montgomerys more moderate Republicans also suffer from the countys location in Washingtons back yard, where they must contend with what Shalleck calls the echo of positions taken by national party figures such as Cruz.
But Shalleck, 68, relishes his seemingly perennial candidacy. The long odds include Leggetts fundraising edge. Shalleck has $2,400 cash on hand, compared with Leggetts $425,000, according to the most recent state filings.
At times, Shalleck, who spent 12 years as a prosecutor in the Bronx, can sound more like a Democrat than the real ones he debated during the primary season (he ran unopposed in his party).
He talks about spending on the big-vision stuff to give the county a stronger identity: a four-year university, a minor league baseball team, Arena football and maybe a venue that would save families a trip to the District to watch their children graduate from high school.
I had to schlep to the DAR Hall to see my kids graduate, Shalleck told an audience this year. It takes two hours, and you get a $60 parking ticket because youre running late.
The son of a Democratic lawyer, he was a member of that party until 1989, when he moved to Washington to join the Justice Departments antitrust division at the beginning of George H.W. Bushs presidency.
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Republican governor candidate Bruce Rauner is broadening his attacks on Gov. Pat Quinn to accuse the Democrat of abuse, neglect (and) tragic mismanagement in the deaths of children whose families had previous contact with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
The accusations were made in a new, one-minute Rauner radio ad that contends Quinn administration failures include the deaths of 95 children in which the states child welfare agency had reported having contact with the victims families within the prior year.
The radio commercial comes from a Rauner campaign that has had a heavy television presence, including three TV ads that were introduced last week. On Monday, Quinn launched two new TV ads, including one featuring First Lady Michelle Obama, who is scheduled to campaign with the governor Tuesday.
Rauners radio ad, one of two now airing in Chicago, cites allegations of illegal patronage hiring raised by a state inspector general and federal grand jury probes into a $54.5 million anti-violence grant program Quinn began shortly before the 2010 election.
But the worst part? Quinn isnt just costing us dollars. Hes costing us lives, a female narrator says. Under the direct responsibility of Quinns Department of Children and Family Services, 95 Illinois children died. Abuse, neglect, tragic mismanagement. Ninety-five innocent children who depended on Illinois gone. Forever.
The figure used by the Rauner campaign is a reference to numbers obtained in a joint Sun-Times-WBEZ FM investigation which found from 2011 to 2013 there were at least 95 instances in which DCFS had contact with the child or family within a year of the childs death.
Quinn spokeswoman Brooke Anderson called the ad a false and malicious attempt to smear the governor. She contended Rauner was cynically using for political purposes an agency that intervenes in emergency life and death situations involving at-risk children.
To imply the governor is somehow responsible for the deaths of children in the horrific circumstances that this agency enters into while trying to save lives is despicable and a new low, she said.
Another one-minute Rauner radio ad plays off an earlier TV spot that attacked the combined 100-year service of Democrats Quinn, House Speaker Michael Madigan, Senate President John Cullerton and imprisoned former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Quinn countered with his latest TV ads, including one featuring Michelle Obama noting his support for raising the states minimum wage and attacking Rauners suggestion that he would reduce Illinois income tax rates to 2010 levels within four years. Quinn wants to make permanent the states 2011 Democratic-passed income tax hike.
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