-By Warner Todd Huston
There are still four candidates for the 10th District seat that is currently held by Mark Kirk (who is now running for Senate) but once there was five. Bill Cadigan has announced that he is no longer pursuing the nomination for the 10th. He reports that he just can’t raise the cash for the fight and is suspending his campaign.
Cadigan was endorsed by former State Senator Steve Rauschenberger and former Chairman of the Illinois Reform Commission Patrick Collins. He used to work for Congressman John Porter.
Cadigan has said he won’t be endorsing anyone at least until after Jan.1st.
So, with one down we still have too many running for the 10th District seat. Of course, the Party supports the far left-leaning Beth Coulson, who is more left leaning than the center left Mark Kirk. But we also have Robert Dold, Dick Green, and Arie Friedman.
I have to say, Dold has the higher profile after the party supported Coulson, but Green has a personal fortune to rely on for funding. Friedman is picking up the support of a lot of good conservative bloggers, so he might be a good candidate to look over.
Here are the websites of the last four:
Beth Coulson coulsonforcongress.com/
Robert Dold www.doldforcongress.com/
Arie Friedman www.friedman2010.com/
Dick Green www.dickgreenforcongress.com/
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.
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