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Duckworth short on funds for stretch run
Supporters of 6th Congressional District Democrat Tammy Duckworth were left scratching their heads Monday at campaign finance reports that showed her with $206,000 left for the race’s stretch run. Word of Duckworth’s relatively empty coffers comes as her campaign stopped running TV ads and as her Republican opponent, Peter Roskam, is up with a TV spot attacking her on illegal immigration.
Saw it on the tube yesterday during the Bears game, no less (smart buy). Good ad, but Roskam didn't pay for it, the NRCC did. Named Duckworth specifically as a supporter of amnesty.
For Duckworth backers who might fear the campaign peaked too early, the response coming from her spokeswoman Monday wasn’t too encouraging. Spokeswoman Christine Glunz said she didn’t know how much money Duckworth has raised since Sept. 30 and didn’t know when Duckworth would begin airing TV ads again. By contrast, Wheaton’s Roskam had $1.5 million to start October, although he’s dipped into that for his TV ad blitz.

Duckworth, a Hoffman Esates veteran who’s running as a fiscal moderate, has spent her money on a large staff, expensive consultants and an early $1 million TV campaign designed to rebut a wave of attack ads run by the National Republican Campaign Committee. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which reserved $2.3 million to run ads blasting Roskam, starts airing its first ad today.
Posted by: Fred 2006-10-18
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