Tength Congressional District Democrats

Waukegan, IL — Republican Congressman Bob Dold is in trouble this November. As he tries to hold onto his seat, Double Talk Dold continues to say one thing while doing another.

In 2014, Dold argued to 10th District voters that he was needed in Congress to break gridlock. Two years later, the GOP has become even more right-wing, so much so that Dold’s Republican Party is poised to nominate Donald Trump as its presidential candidate.

Dold is rightfully scared.  He told The Washington Post, “For me, it’s personal. [Trump’s] comments about women, his comments about minorities, about Latinos — for me that’s not a guy I would support” (The Washington Post, 2/22/16).

But posing as “not Trump” by avoiding inflammatory rhetoric is insufficient.

In response to Dold’s comments, Tenth Dems’ Founding Chair Lauren Beth Gash said, “It’s personal to 10th District voters that Bob Dold won’t endorse the Paycheck Fairness Act, voted for the ‘Let Women Die Act,’ and tried dozens of times to repeal Obamacare (Chicago Tribune, 10/16/14). That’s not a guy the 10th District will support this fall.” 

Desperate to appear untied to his unpopular party, Double Talk Dold now shrugs and says people should just ignore the fact that he’s Republican. This is the same Dold who signed a contract with national Republicans in return for strategic support and “a special pot of cash” (The Washington Post, 2/22/16). This is the same Dold who co-hosted a Chicago fundraiser for right-wing ideologue, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, last month (Crain’s Chicago Business, 1/26/16). It’s the same Dold who worked for Republicans Dan Quayle, Bob Dole, and Clinton conspiracy theorist Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN).

Dold can run from Trump’s words but he can’t hide from his own poor attempt to reflect the values of the 10th District.

Tenth Dems hosted forums with Brad Schneider and Nancy Rotering on January 27th and February 10th. These forums are now available online for viewing.

See the Schneider forum here. See the Rotering forum here.

Schneider Forum                                               Rotering Forum

Highland Park, IL — Why won’t the Republican Party let Congressman Bob Dold give the GOP response to President Obama’s State of the Union address tonight? What he lacks in gravitas, Dold makes up for with deep partisan roots.

Nowadays, Dold either painfully avoids mentioning his unpopular political party or talks as if all he did was flip a coin to decide which party’s ticket to run on. But that’s preposterous. Dold worked for Vice President Dan Quayle and then on Bob Dole’s failed campaign to retake the White House for Republicans.

Then Dold joined other Republicans obsessed with investigating the Clintons as part of a congressional committee so reckless that it managed to embarrass even Newt Gingrich. When the Chairman of Dold’s committee (Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN)) wasn’t busy shooting watermelons to desperately prove a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton murdering her friend who actually had committed suicide, he was wasting taxpayer money on heavily-edited tapes to show that she was guilty of yet a different crime (The Washington Post, 1/31/12).

What more does Dold need to do to prove his Republican party loyalty, sign a secret contract? Well, he did that last year (The Washington Post, 9/3/15).

If the Republican Party wants a committed partisan to give its response to the President’s State of the Union address, it would do the right thing and let Bob Dold give it.