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David McSweeney

Dee Beaubien

Multiple sources have contacted McHenry County Blog with the news that State Rep. Mark Beaubien’s widow Dee is telling people she is running for State Representative against Republican winner Dave McSweeney.

“There’s no doubt that she’s running,” one source who wished to remain anonymous said.

Whether she will run as an independent or a Democrat or on a specially-created third party has not yet been ascertained.

What is known is that Terry Cosgrove’s pro-abortion Political Action Committee, Personal PAC (the one that engineered my defeat in the 2002 GOP primary) will be the force behind Dee Beaubien’s campaign.

McSweeney is strongly Pro-Life.

Ed Sullivan

The incoming Chairman of the House Republican Organization, State Rep. Ed Sullivan, wrote,

“I just wanted you to know on the record coming from the new Chairman of HRO that Tom Cross and HRO will be 100% with David McSweeney.”

Sullivan represents the eastern half of State Senator Dan Duffy’s district, while McSweeney is the Republican candidate in the western half.

Duffy has also drawn a female opponent backed by Personal PAC.

“I completely support David McSweeney, but I’m confused at Dee Beaubien’s entry into the race.

“If Dee Beaubien were interested in the race, why didn’t she run in the Republican primary, unless, of course, she’s not really a Republican as she as portrayed herself to be.”

The 52nd House District where Dave McSweeney won a three-way primary election.

The Beaubien campaign fund had $17,600 in it, as of the end of 2011.

During the last quarter of 2011, the fund made the following contributions:

• McHenry County Chairman’s Circle (controlled by Mike Tryon) – $500.00
• Committee to Elect Michelle Schurman, Mt. Carroll – $500
• Friends of Kay Hatcher (endorsed by Personal PAC) – $250
• Nunda Township Republican Central Committee – $250
• Citizens for Bryan Winter – $200

Since her husband’s death last June the Political Action Committee or Dee personally has made the following contributions:

• 11-7-11 Personal PAC – $600
• 10-14-11 Citizens to Re-Elect Bob Miller – $600
• 9-22-11 Personal PAC – $800
• 8-29-11 Citizens for Kent Gaffney – $8,381.65
• 8-24-11 Citizens for Kent Gaffney – $4,000
• 8-1-11 Personal PAC – $8,000

Previously, I have written earlier about pro-abortion (and they really are pro-abortion) Personal PAC’s attack on Dan Duffy.

Besides the completely false “Woman in Jail” piece you can see in the above link, I have copies of two other mailings (click to enlarge). (I’ve missed two others.)

First there is the “Back Alley Stairs” Piece. You can see it below:

Another Personal PAC attack piece can be seen below. They would call is the “Kiss or Tell” piece. Since it came just before Halloween and has “scary” writing, that’s how I labeled it.

And Sunday night, while I was getting a positive, if misdirected (because I do not live in the 26th state senate district) robo-call from Gentes, Personal PAC was making calls, too. Only they were probably limited to the 26th District.

Personal PAC pieced together recordings of Duffy’s voice and interspersed Duffy’s comments with those of another person to damage Duffy still more.

Duffy says the only part of the message that was true was the tag line identifying Personal PAC as having made the phone call.

At $45,243.31, Personal PAC is Gentes’ largest contributor outside of Senate President hopeful John Cullerton, who gave $50,000. Contributions started last January and the reported ones go up to last Friday. I assume there will be more reported later. From in-kind contributions which have already been reported, I would not be surprised to see another mailing hit today.

Personal PAC is using its intensive voter identification of women who self-identify themselves as pro-choice and not “pro-choice” to tell “pro-choice” voters that Duffy is pro-life and “not pro-choice” voters that he is pro-choice.

It is an elegant and competently carried out campaign strategy that, in different permentations has worked since 1992, although it often has taken more than one election cycle to pick off an incumbent. (Personal PAC had to do it three times to beat me in 2000.)

You can imagine the confusion among the electorate.

And, a confused electorate is a volatile one.

Duffy is so angry that he is pledging to sue Personal PAC and its director, Terry Cosgrove, regardless of how the election turns out.

Previously, I have written earlier about pro-abortion (and they really are pro-abortion) Personal PAC’s attack on Dan Duffy.

Besides the completely false “Woman in Jail” piece you can see in the above link, I have copies of two other mailings (click to enlarge). (I’ve missed two others.)

First there is the “Back Alley Stairs” Piece. You can see it below:

Another Personal PAC attack piece can be seen below. They would call is the “Kiss or Tell” piece. Since it came just before Halloween and has “scary” writing, that’s how I labeled it.

And Sunday night, while I was getting a positive, if misdirected (because I do not live in the 26th state senate district) robo-call from Gentes, Personal PAC was making calls, too. Only they were probably limited to the 26th District.

Personal PAC pieced together recordings of Duffy’s voice and interspersed Duffy’s comments with those of another person to damage Duffy still more.

Duffy says the only part of the message that was true was the tag line identifying Personal PAC as having made the phone call.

At $45,243.31, Personal PAC is Gentes’ largest contributor outside of Senate President hopeful John Cullerton, who gave $50,000. Contributions started last January and the reported ones go up to last Friday. I assume there will be more reported later. From in-kind contributions which have already been reported, I would not be surprised to see another mailing hit today.

Personal PAC is using its intensive voter identification of women who self-identify themselves as pro-choice and not “pro-choice” to tell “pro-choice” voters that Duffy is pro-life and “not pro-choice” voters that he is pro-choice.

It is an elegant and competently carried out campaign strategy that, in different permentations has worked since 1992, although it often has taken more than one election cycle to pick off an incumbent. (Personal PAC had to do it three times to beat me in 2000.)

You can imagine the confusion among the electorate.

And, a confused electorate is a volatile one.

Duffy is so angry that he is pledging to sue Personal PAC and its director, Terry Cosgrove, regardless of how the election turns out.