James Fuller of he Daily Herald reports today that IL-06 congressional candidate Stan Jagla will most likely stay on the ballot for the Feb. 5th primary. The final hearing with the Illinois Board of Elections is set for Friday.
Like everything about this race thus far, this misstep by the Morgenthaler campaign will prove to provide endless entertainment in the press. Stan, as nutty as he is, will hold nothing back and will become a Polish-American Alan Keyes of sorts. He'll rake Col. Jill Morgenthaler through the mud every chance he gets and he'll do it so humorously that the press won't be able to resist writing about it. The Daily Herald reports that Stan is gearing up to do just that:
"With the race on, Jagla pledged Monday to come after his Democratic competitor, Army Reserve Col. Jill Morgenthaler, with guns blazing.Jagla said he believes the Morgenthaler campaign was behind Flynn's petition challenge.
Morgenthaler's campaign staff claims Flynn as a supporter, but has said Flynn is not working directly for the campaign.
"I'm going to be much more aggressive," Jagla said. "This pointless petition challenge showed me that being polite with these people doesn't pay."
This, my friends, is one of the reasons why trying to kick your opponent off the ballot is a stupid idea. Aside from being contrary to democracy, there's always a chance that it won't happen and that your opponent will quickly morph into a PR problem that will cost you money, time, and dirty laundry aired all over the place. For Col. Jill Morgenthaler, I suppose it's a good thing that Stan Jagla has plenty of dirty laundry of his own.
5 comments:
What dirty laundry does Stan have other than an inability to be articulate. You can't just leave a remark like that hanging
Yeah, I can. I'm sure that it will all come out if the Morgnethaler campaign is even marginally savvy with this sort of thing.
Nominating petition challenges aren't rocket science.
Some petitions are clearly vulnerable. Some are clearly invulnerable.
Candidates are only rolling the dice on the ones in between.
That said, Morganthaler's campaign has elevated the stature of the guy by challenging him.
BTW, Peraica dispatched of his challenger with a nominating petition challenge.
Yes, I agree. The Morgenthaler campaign made a serious mistake by even bothering with Stan's petition. It's going to become more and more clear that he would have simply buried himself if they had left him alone.
The biggest mistake Jill Morgenthaler is making right now is failing to reach out to people in the community, especially the activist base. No one knows her and no one knows where she stands on the issues. Many, many people have tried to reach out to her with absolutely no response.
Given the fact that she does not have deep roots in our community, you would think that she'd want to get to know people, especially since some very high profile Democrats have told her to do just that.
Instead, she and/or her staff (also not from our community) have chosen to ignore that good advice and are flying under the radar. This is incredibly ironic given her profession.
There are very, very few strictly partisan Democrats in IL-06, myself being one of them. I will not support anyone on the basis of a "D" being behind his or her name.
Being inarticulate has never been a real handicap in Illinois politics.
I would like to know what contact or relations Morganthaler had with Blackwater while in Iraq, or back in Illinois.
I'm expecting we will hear little from her until after the primaries unless that Polish Allen Keyes really puts the heat on her.
Keyes by the way is a pretty well-spoken guy. He puts most professional pols to shame in debates.
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