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Democrat Dan Seals will get a third chance at a 10th Congressional seat and newcomer Robert Dold upended a seasoned state legislator in Tuesday’s GOP primary.<\/p>\nDemocrat Dan Seals will get a third chance at a 10th Congressional seat and newcomer Robert Dold upended a seasoned state legislator in Tuesday’s GOP primary.<\/p>\n
Dold, a small-business owner and attorney from Kenilworth making his first run at public office, rode a relentless ground campaign – including 60 stops on a tour bus the last few days – to defeat state Rep. Beth Coulson, who conceded defeat.<\/p>\n
Dold emphasized using small business common sense in Washington and being fiscally conservative. <\/span><\/p>\n With all 511 precints reporting, unofficial results showed Dold defeating Coulson 18,352to 14,442.<\/p>\n Coulson, who had a lengthy list of endorsements, including former Gov. Jim Edgar and John Porter – the congressman who held the seat before Mark Kirk won his first term in 2000 – said she would assist Dold.<\/p>\n “I pledged to do whatever I can to assist Bob in the general election because I recognize how important it is to keep this seat in Republican hands,” she said.<\/p>\n “Victory in the 10th District may well usher in Republican control of the House.”<\/p>\n Seals, a Wilmette businessman, won his third primary and gets another chance to take the seat for Democrats.<\/p>\n “We worked very hard. A lot of volunteers came out from all over the district,” he said.<\/p>\n With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Seals had 47 percent, or 22,558, to Hamos with 21,947 votes, or 46 percent. Hamos conceded about 10 p.m.<\/p>\n “Everybody knew it would be a race to the end and would be very close,” said Hamos spokesman Chris Lackner.<\/p>\n “Voters were engaged in this. This is a smart district, it’s a very independent district.”<\/p>\n He said Hamos, the leading fundraiser among all candidates with about $1.1 million, would support Seals.<\/p>\n “At the end of the day, we’re all Democrats. The challenge becomes winning the seat in November.”<\/p>\n Seals had extensive name recognition and a deep volunteer staff. He ran well against Kirk in 2006 and 2008, narrowly losing both times.<\/p>\n “We were outgunned financially but we had more people and already had the relationship,” with voters, Seals said.<\/p>\n Rounding out the Republican ballot was Winnetka economist Dick Green, the largest fundraiser among Republican candidates, who was third with 14 percent, according to unofficial totals.<\/p>\n Highland Park pediatrician Arie Friedman was fourth with 13 percent, and Paul Hamann, an electrical engineer from Lake Forest had 2 percent.<\/p>\n For Democrats, Highland Park attorney Elliot Richardson was a distant third with 5 percent, according to unofficial totals.<\/p>\n Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Democrat Dan Seals will get a third chance at a 10th Congressional seat and newcomer Robert Dold upended a seasoned state legislator in Tuesday’s GOP primary. Dold, a small-business owner and attorney from Kenilworth making his first run at public office, rode a relentless ground campaign – including 60 stops on a tour bus the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/bob-dold-10th-district-illinois-300x196.jpg\" "\\"bob-dold-10th-district-illinois\\"")
“I attribute the win to the voters resonating with the message,” he said. “We were obviously very pleased with the results. We’re not taking anything for granted.”<\/p>\n<\/img><\/a>
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