Saturday, December 31, 2005
State Rep. Mark Beaubien's Nominating Petitions Challenged
Two years ago Beaubien successfully challenged the petitions of Barrington Village President Marshal Reagle. Reagle missed the 300 required signatures by three, giving Beaubien a free ride to the State House.
While Driscoll is new to local politics, he does have experience as a congressional candidate. In 2000 he ran against liberal Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky in the 9th congressional district. Holding up the Republican Party flag earned him 24% of the vote in the heavily Democratic district.
He provided $35,000 to his campaign in 1999, according to the Public Interest Research Group. He spent about $60,000 on the race against Schakowsky’s $1 million.
Among his few political action committee donations were those from a motorcycle group, Congressman Donald Manzullo, who used to represent the McHenry County portion of the state rep district, and Paul Caprio’s Family PAC-Federal. None contributed more than $300. The largest individual contributors gave $1000. One was Jack Roeser, who lives in the state rep district, and the other was Miriam Hoover of Glencoe. Driscoll himself was an early financial supporter of U.S. Senate candidate Jack Ryan, giving him $415 in November 2003.
Beubien, on the other hand, reported over $44,000 in his campaign fund the end of last June and reported owing himself almost $86,000. Clearly, Beaubien can afford to run a first class campaign.
In 2002, when re-apportionment moved Beaubien’s district south into Barrington Township and west into McHenry County, Woodstock lawyer Pete Michling challenged Beaubien. Originally, Michling was planning to take on Democrat State Rep. Jack Franks. But Franks had his Bull Valley neighbor Michling drawn out of his district.
In the primary season, Beaubien started off with $40,000, raised $93,000 and spent almost $107,000. Beaubien won over 2-1, even carrying McHenry County by 984 votes out of the 5,600 cast. Michling $47,000 was outspent almost 2-1.
Beaubien was one of Personal PAC’s candidates, even receiving a paid assistant in the form of Shiela Leucht, who was the PAC’s pro-abortion candidate in the 2000 GOP primary in Frank’s district. Leucht ran third against winning pro-life candidate Tom Salvi and Steve Verr, the pro-life candidate who ran second.
In 2000, Beaubien was challenged in the GOP primary by Robert Freese of Mundelein, who lost 8,952-5,000. Beaubien spent $99,000 to Freese’s approximately $18,000. Personal PAC was again a heavy contributor of in-kind services.
The petition review process usually consists of someone looking at one’s opponent’s petitions on behalf of another candidate in the race. The folks doing the looking are sometimes not willing to admit they are working on behalf of the other candidate, but they usually are…at least indirectly.
Wauconda resident Lorraine Godawa filed the objection to Beaubien’s petitions.
Viewing Driscoll’s petitions was someone from Cicero: Anthony Dubicki. Looking at Beaubien’s petitions were Cynthia Saputo of Springfield and Ann Elgin of Chicago.
Elgin took a look on December 13th. The objection by Wauconda’s Godawa was filed on December 27th. The next day, Springfield’s Saputo probably obtained a copy of Beaubien’s petitions, presumably so someone on Beaubien’s side could see if there were potential problems with them.
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While Driscoll is new to local politics, he does have experience as a congressional candidate. In 2000 he ran against liberal Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky in the 9th congressional district. Holding up the Republican Party flag earned him 24% of the vote in the heavily Democratic district.
He provided $35,000 to his campaign in 1999, according to the Public Interest Research Group. He spent about $60,000 on the race against Schakowsky’s $1 million.
Among his few political action committee donations were those from a motorcycle group, Congressman Donald Manzullo, who used to represent the McHenry County portion of the state rep district, and Paul Caprio’s Family PAC-Federal. None contributed more than $300. The largest individual contributors gave $1000. One was Jack Roeser, who lives in the state rep district, and the other was Miriam Hoover of Glencoe. Driscoll himself was an early financial supporter of U.S. Senate candidate Jack Ryan, giving him $415 in November 2003.
Beubien, on the other hand, reported over $44,000 in his campaign fund the end of last June and reported owing himself almost $86,000. Clearly, Beaubien can afford to run a first class campaign.
In 2002, when re-apportionment moved Beaubien’s district south into Barrington Township and west into McHenry County, Woodstock lawyer Pete Michling challenged Beaubien. Originally, Michling was planning to take on Democrat State Rep. Jack Franks. But Franks had his Bull Valley neighbor Michling drawn out of his district.
In the primary season, Beaubien started off with $40,000, raised $93,000 and spent almost $107,000. Beaubien won over 2-1, even carrying McHenry County by 984 votes out of the 5,600 cast. Michling $47,000 was outspent almost 2-1.
Beaubien was one of Personal PAC’s candidates, even receiving a paid assistant in the form of Shiela Leucht, who was the PAC’s pro-abortion candidate in the 2000 GOP primary in Frank’s district. Leucht ran third against winning pro-life candidate Tom Salvi and Steve Verr, the pro-life candidate who ran second.
In 2000, Beaubien was challenged in the GOP primary by Robert Freese of Mundelein, who lost 8,952-5,000. Beaubien spent $99,000 to Freese’s approximately $18,000. Personal PAC was again a heavy contributor of in-kind services.
The petition review process usually consists of someone looking at one’s opponent’s petitions on behalf of another candidate in the race. The folks doing the looking are sometimes not willing to admit they are working on behalf of the other candidate, but they usually are…at least indirectly.
Wauconda resident Lorraine Godawa filed the objection to Beaubien’s petitions.
Viewing Driscoll’s petitions was someone from Cicero: Anthony Dubicki. Looking at Beaubien’s petitions were Cynthia Saputo of Springfield and Ann Elgin of Chicago.
Elgin took a look on December 13th. The objection by Wauconda’s Godawa was filed on December 27th. The next day, Springfield’s Saputo probably obtained a copy of Beaubien’s petitions, presumably so someone on Beaubien’s side could see if there were potential problems with them.
To return to McHenry County Blog, click here.
# posted by Cal Skinner : 10:25 PM
