Posted by
PeraicaBlogger on Wednesday, August 02, 2006 7:50:06 PM
This from the
Sun-Times:
Going by campaign dollars alone, the race for Cook County Board president doesn't appear close.
Democrat Todd Stroger,
who replaced his politician father on the ballot, has a paltry $36,130 in his fund, while his Republican challenger in the November election,
Tony Peraica, has $535,000 in hand. But records released
this week also show almost $500,000 that could be available to Stroger through his father's campaign funds, and they don't include proceeds
from a July fund-raiser.
Well, Todd, that's much different from what you told Fox News Chicago's
Duane Placko this weekend...this from Tony Peraica's Web site:
Is Todd Stroger deliberately trying to mislead the media and voters of
Cook County regarding his support from his father's political and
financial machine? Or does he just not know any better? Asked yesterday
during our joint appearance on FOX Chicago's Sunday morning news program just how much money from his father's campaign accounts would
be transferred to his campaign, Todd evaded the question by responding,
'Uh, there is, uh, very little money left, uh, less than a hundred
thousand.' Probed further as to the state of his own campaign's finances, Todd replied 'Me? I'm starting from scratch. So, I'm starting
off with ten thousand, and working my way up.'
In fact, the
latest D-2 reports on file for John Stroger's political committees show
quite a bit more than $100,000 left -- Todd was actually off by 600
percent. Friends of Stroger had $258,387.50 in its bank account as of
June 30, and Stroger for President had $349,236.50 as of June 30. All
told, that's $607,624 in these two political committees.
And
Todd didn't even get his own numbers right. Rather than the 'ten
thousand' he says he has in his bank account, the D-2 report for
Friends of Todd Stroger showed $36,130.58 cash on hand as of June 30.
Since
Todd's misstatement of the facts allowed him to evade Dane Placko's
original question, I'll ask it again: Todd, just how much of that
$607,624 that was sitting in your father's campaign accounts as of one
month ago do you expect to have transferred to you?
C'mon, Todd. Come clean. Dontcha know the status quo just isn't going to fly this year? Take a look at
the poll numbers...