FeaturedWaukegan, IL – Donald Trump is unfit for the White House yet Republican Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), the highest-ranking member of Congress, just endorsed him for President. Rep. Bob Dold (IL-10) can spin it all he wants but it’s this simple: Dold’s support for Ryan is support for Trump.
Dold’s ties to Ryan are undeniable:
And Ryan thinks Trump should be our next commander-in-chief.
Dold’s consistent support of Trump endorser Paul Ryan shows he’s out of touch with the people of the 10th District. This fall, the voters will reject Republicans Dold, Ryan, and Trump, and elect Democrat Brad Schneider instead.
Tenth Dems June Newsletter
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In this issue of Tenth News:
15th Annual Women’s Power Lunch Draws Another Enthusiastic Crowd
Political Analyst David Yepsen Sparks Capacity TDU Crowd to Lively Exchange
Congress Watch: Double-Talk Dold Pushes for More Dark Money in Politics
9th Annual Botterman Breakfast Draws Democratic Notables
Community Connection Hosting Volunteer Meeting and Participating in ArtWauk
Warren Township Democrats Help with Spring Highway Clean-Up
You Never Know Who You’ll Meet
A Reality Check for Trump Voters
15th Annual Women’s Power Lunch Draws Another Enthusiastic Crowd
By Leslie Lipschultz
This year’s event was bigger than ever and, as always, Tenth Dems contributed a large contingent to the festivities.
Political Analyst David Yepsen Sparks Capacity TDU Crowd to Lively Exchange
By Laurence D. Schiller
A standing-room-only crowd, a veteran analyst of primary season, and dozens of insightful questions made for a lively Tenth Dems University session.
Congress Watch: Double-Talk Dold Pushes for More Dark Money in Politics
If you don’t want to know whose money is financing whose campaign, Bob Dold is representing your interests. Despite his claim that he supports diluting the effects of Citizens United, when he’s in Washington Dold is fully on board with his party’s protection of dark money.
9th Annual Botterman Breakfast Draws Democratic Notables
We report this event with words and pictures.
Community Connection Hosting Volunteer Meeting and Participating in ArtWauk
Mark your calendar for Saturday evening, June 18 for a grassroots political strategy session and open house at the Community Connection office in Waukegan.
Warren Township Democrats Help with Spring Highway Clean-Up
Democrats do much to make our communities better places to live. Warren Township Democrats have taken responsibility for cleaning up a section of highway.
You Never Know Who You’ll Meet
By Jeanine China
A first-timer at Jan Schakowsky’s Power Women Lunch shares her perspective.
Republican Congressman Bob Dold has voted to cut Pell Grants.
By Steven Gan
North Carolina’s effort to prevent the City of Charlotte from acknowledging the rights of transgendered individuals to use public restrooms has moved from legislation to lawsuits as the state countersues the Department of Justice for enforcing Civil Rights laws.
A Reality Check for Trump Voters
By Jack Altschuler
Far from being an anti-establishment candidate, Donald Trump is just another in a long line of Republicans whose economic policies have been decimating the middle class.
Republican Senator Mark Kirk has voted to block Clean Water rules. He’s also voted against funding Flint’s water system clean-up.
Senator Morrison has sponsored legislation to ensure that required reporting by courts to police about persons adjudicated as unfit to have a firearms license actually occurs.
Grayslake, IL – Republican Rep. Bob Dold is using his seat in Congress to remove a disclosure requirement for “major donors” (Crain’s Chicago Business, 5/5/16). This is troubling.
In a moderate area like Illinois’ 10th District, the Supreme Court’s Citizens United opinion is unpopular. The response from our leaders matters. In typical Double Talk Dold fashion, he’s tried to have it both ways. Dold says it shouldn’t be overturned…while also saying Congress should do something about it. That’s because, as Dold admitted, the ruling “diluted the voice of the average voter with the amount of advertising from outside groups. There are going to be those that say that was a good thing but I do think the people of the 10th District deserved better” (The New York Times, 10/23/12).
But that was Dold pandering less than a month before Election Day in 2012. What is Dold doing about our campaign finance system now that he’s in Congress? The New York Times says Dold is advancing a bill that would eliminate the requirement for outside groups, including Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS, to disclose the identities of their donors, even to the government. This allows them to “work from the shadows” (The New York Times, 4/28/16).
And Crossroads GPS, one of those outside groups that benefits from donors’ anonymity? Well, Rove’s group spent $640,000 in 2014 on an ad campaign attacking Dold’s Democratic opponent Brad Schneider for not repealing Obamacare (Chicago Sun-Times, 8/20/14).
Yes, Bob Dold, the people of the 10th District deserved better. They’ll get it when they vote in November to replace you.
Republican Rep. Bob Dold Can’t Win Without Trump Voters
Waukegan, IL – National Republicans support Rep. Bob Dold (IL-10) because he’s been with them for decades, going back to his time spinning political messages for Dan Quayle and “investigating” the Clintons for House Republicans in the 1990s. The same national Republicans who count on Bob Dold to vote them into leadership are warming up to Donald Trump because they need his voters to push their right-wing agenda.Trump
Similarly, while Dold puts on a show for the cameras about how he can’t possibly support Donald Trump in the fall, he too needs Trump voters to win. Dold’s Republican base, like the GOP base at large, is strongly behind Trump. Here is how he did with Republican primary voters in the 10th District:
Trump’s message might work in the Republican primary but it’s toxic in a 10th District general election. Dold, a career GOP operative, knows this. But while Double Talk Dold objects publicly, privately he’s counting on Trump-Dold Republican voters to provide the bulk of his support.
Dold, like his right-wing allies in Washington, needs Donald Trump supporters to win. But there is no way the people of the 10th District will choose to be represented by that coalition. This fall they are going to reject Republicans Donald Trump and Bob Dold.
