From this week’s Republican Party email:
State Senator Jim Oberweis
The Republican of the Week is State Senator and candidate for the 14th Congressional District, Jim Oberweis!
A native of Illinois’ Fox Valley region, Jim graduated from Marmion Military Academy before going on to earn a B.A. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and, later, an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
After graduating from the University of Illinois, he took his first job as a math and science teacher at Waldo Junior High School in Aurora.
Soon thereafter, he launched a career in the financial services industry, eventually launching a family of no-load mutual funds.
Today, Oberweis Asset Management manages approximately $3 billion in growth stock assets.
Jim also serves as the Chairman of Oberweis Dairy, a business founded by Jim’s grandfather, Peter, who began delivering milk to his Aurora neighbors in 1915.
Thirty years ago, Jim purchased the family business after his brother had a stroke and was unable to continue running the business.
Jim developed and implemented a successful strategy for growth.
Under Jim’s leadership, the Dairy has grown from a small home delivery company with one ice cream store and 50 employees to 43 ice cream stores and restaurants with more than 1,200 employees.
Jim is married, and his wife Julie works with him at Oberweis Dairy.
He has five adult children, two stepchildren, and twenty grandchildren, most of whom call Illinois home.
Thank you Jim for your service to our party and for stepping up to take on the fake nurse, Lauren Underwood! To learn more or to support Jim, please visit Jim2020.com.
Underwood is a nurse.
Claiming her to be a fake just undermines your arguments.
Is there a bigger fake than Trump?
Fake hair, fake tan, fake height, fake weight, fake marriage.
The GOP used to be better.
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So that CLF that funded the anti-Oberweis campaign…
What’s their deal?
Is it an actual arm of the GOP or what?
I was meaning to do some research on that, but if you, Lopez, or someone else could just give a quick run down, I’m sure many readers would appreciate it.
If both Jim and the little woman are busy running the dairy in Aurora, who’s minding the house in Florida?
Is there a bigger fake than Trump?
OBAMA, or now Biden supporters as Joe does know what day it is
fake marriage.
Could this be Obama gain?
ask Larry Sinclair
What are the credentials and working experience of the so-called nurse? Have her put together an honest resume’ showing dates she served and what position in ICU, surgical operating room, post-surgery department, etc in hospitals.
On Biden, if the Democrat Party is going to stick with this guy, then they would be better off getting a wax museum likeness of him with a face whose mouth could move and eyes blink. Then, get a good comedian impersonator who has Biden’s voice down pat. Prop up the wax likeness at a podium and have the comedian make speeches and answer questions while standing hidden in the background.
Johnny Bourgeous is referring to this, which every higher ranking Chicago detective or watch commander knew about: https://rense.com/general95/onemanuel.html
These demos defending fake nursie make me laugh.
What’s the fake nurse been doin’ during the coronavirus panic-demic?
Correcting, to give a good run-down of the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) is worthy of its own article, which is added to the docket/agenda.
Short answer, the CLF is a super PAC dedicated to electing a House Republican majority in DC, and is not officially affiliated with the Republican National Committee, the NRCC or any other candidate.
CLF usually supports Republican candidates.
For instance this past week, CLF did an Independent Expenditure (IE) in support of Mike Garcia’s special election campaign, with an initial TV/digital ad buy of $600K.
What we saw in IL-14 against Oberweis last month shows CLF will attempt to produce a result in a primary election, and CLF used a “Pop-up” super PAC to keep its involvement unknown until after the primary.
CLF did something similar to insure the Republican frontrunner in TX-07 won their primary without a runoff to challenge the freshman Democratic incumbent who flipped that district in 2018.
Bred Winner and Faraby, I really do not care for the “fake nurse” moniker the NRCC, and in this article’s case, the Illinois Republican Party, applies to Underwood.
Yes, Underwood is a licensed Registered Nurse.
She was a back office policy administration nurse, both within the Obama Administration and in the private sector while not being in Congress or in the Obama Administration.
She is called “fake nurse” because she has not ever been a “frontline” nurse, either in a hospital, an emergency room or at a doctor’s office, and the label stuck when it was discovered, albeit too late, that her commercial she cut in the 2018 campaign portrayed Underwood as a frontline RN working in a doctor’s office.
Truth, Underwood has been a back office policy administration nurse with no patient interface.
Something I’ve noticed about Underwood in her press releases and tele town hall meetings I’ve listened into — Underwood no longer uses the “as a nurse” mantra she used all the time prior to the pandemic.
And she is always careful not to count herself as a frontline nurse, even when praising the real frontline nurses, doctors and all first responders to the pandemic, several who’ve lost their lives due to the pandemic.
Oh, well, then it’s not as bad as I thought if it’s just a super pac.
It’s not like the NRCC or some Republican congressional caucus.
Still not reassuring though if you’re on Team Oberweis.
It could be indicative of big and influential donors having little faith in Oberweis’s ability to win the election — and I guess they’re sort of right to worry.