Oberweis launches new ad.
A new political ad tries to link gubernatorial candidate Judy Baar Topinka to former Governor George Ryan. Jim Oberweis is running the ad targeting his opponent in Tuesday’s republican primary.
In the ad, Topinka is accused of doing the “pay for play polka.” Judy Baar Topinka’s danced the polka with dozens of politicians over the years, including Vice President Dick Cheney. So when an ABC 7 photographer captured her and then Governor George Ryan on stage at the state fair in Springfield a few years ago, no one expected the footage to pop up in a negative campaign ad aimed at pushing her off the dance floor in the final days of the republican primary for governor. The choreographer is opponent Jim Oberweis who is finishing the campaign with a burst of creativity.
In the final days before the primary election, Judy Baar Topinka — the GOP frontrunner in all the polls — is trying to survive what may be the last and probably most memorable attack ad of the campaign. Challenger Jim Oberweis using news footage of an innocent dance at a state fair to suggest that Topinka’s a lot like the former governor who is on trial for alleged corruption.
I had the ad behind a firewall this past weekend to conserve bandwidth, but somebody else posted it, so go take a look and tell us what you think.
Also, the Sun-Times has more on that straw thing.
Republican Jim Oberweis on Sunday defended his last-minute offer to gubernatorial primary rivals Bill Brady and Ron Gidwitz — drawing straws to see who stays in to face GOP front-runner Judy Baar To-pinka head-on — as “a creative opportunity to discuss solutions.”
The Aurora dairy owner said he was prepared to dump another chunk of his fortune into the race if he won the draw he proposed last week and Brady and Gidwitz endorsed him.
“I would have added another $500,000 to get that message out in the remaining four days of the campaign,” Oberweis said before stepping into a National Rifle Association dinner in Joliet.
By proposing Brady and Gidwitz each get one straw and he get 10, Oberweis said he had an 85 percent chance of winning the draw, and then a 90 percent chance of winning the primary — as opposed to a 50 percent chance with them in.