IL: Pelosi's Super PAC gives $2.9M to boost Casten, Underwood bids for Congress

[RandySF]

WASHINGTON — Weeks before the midterm elections, a Democratic super PAC is jumping into the two biggest Chicago-area House races, bankrolling TV spots against GOP incumbents Peter Roskam and Randy Hultgren that started airing Wednesday.

The House Majority PAC is making the independent expenditures in hopes of flipping the 6th and the 14th Congressional districts, which are key to the Democrats’ bid to win control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November.

A spokesman for The House Majority PAC, Hannah Blatt, said the group is spending $1.9 million against Roskam and $887,000 to defeat Hultgren through television ads that take aim at their records on taxes and health care.

That’s on top of about $120,000 the House Majority PAC spent in direct mail in September opposing Roskam.

This is the biggest infusion of outside money to date in these districts, which are anchored in the western Chicago suburbs.

The Democratic nominees, Sean Casten in the 6th and Lauren Underwood in the 14th, are both first-time candidates.



https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/democrats-tv-ads-casten-roskam-underwood-hultgren-congress-election-2018/

[beachbum bob]

1. money should be handed out to Londrigan in Il-13, a race thats pretty much a tossup

another great flip opportunity. All sorts of dark money coming in for the GOP'er Rodney Davis/