Bill Foster is running in the IL-14 special election to replace disgraced GOP House Speaker Denny Hastert. The election is just a week away – March 8th. We’ve added him to the Blue Majority ActBlue page to help him in this final stretch run. Larry Lessig explains:
So just off the phone with Bill Foster, a physicist from Illinois, Democrat, running in a special election to fill Dennis Hastert’s seat. When I started to think about this run, Foster was a model. A former researcher at Fermilab, and entrepreneur, he is precisely the sort a changed Congress would need.
“Seven hours a day” on the phone raising money. And with a Special Election just 10 days away, they’re pushing to raise a final $200,000 to run an endorsement ad from Barack Obama.
Seven hours a day. Wow.
Let’s help raise some cash for Foster so that he can get that ad on the air and spend more time on the trail. Polls have shown that this is a tight race, despite the district’s R+4.8 lean, and the party committees have been slugging it out.
But we need to chip in and do our part, too. Just think about how great it would be to steal this seat from the GOP. A win here would also fracture an already-dysfunctional Republican election operation and give us added momentum for the fall. An open-seat victory + John Boehner firing Tom Cole’s “dead ass” = sweetness!
On the web: Bill Foster for Congress
Blue Majority ActBlue page
….very soon. We’ll keep everyone posted. We’ll need some help getting it up on the air.
It could be a game changer.
Disclaimer: I am working with the Foster campaign.
and he said he’d chip in $5 for Foster! 😀
He actually lives in IL-15, but I haven’t seen anything interesting happen involving efforts to beat Tim V. Johnson (R-IL-15 in an R+6 district).
He lives next door to IL-11, I think, so there’s a competitive race nearby at least.
putz Foster ahead by like 10%!