31/08/2024
Chronicle Media contrasts Rep Underwood's campaign with the campaign of her opponent, Oswego Republican James Marter.
The Chronicle noted that, while Underwood (D-Naperville) spoke to a national audience at the DNC in Chicago last week, James Marter hosts a campaign-paid brokered radio show, Saturday mornings from 10am-noon on Aurora-based WBIG, home of the "Big Shopping Show":
"But Marter’s radio show is not the only spotlight illuminating his views. He’s also attracted the attention of an online political fact-checking/commentary site called Will County Clown Car, which primarily focuses on Will County. [...]
The Clown Car site says it is committed to “Tracking and mocking right-wing extremism, misinformation and propaganda in Will County, IL, and surrounding areas.” It has taken Marter to task in half a dozen posts since March, ridiculing him as a failed candidate for Congress in 2018, 2020 and 2022.
“Like so many Republicans running for office in 2024,” the Clown Car opined recently, “IL-14 Republican congressional candidate and Christian Nationalist, James Marter, is a conspiracy theorist, a far right-wing extremist, and yes — a weirdo, too.”
The group vowed to continue tracking Marter’s comments through election day, as, it said, “… his campaign continues to flail along.”"
Illinois' 14th congressional district covers much of western Will County.
https://chronicleillinois.com/news/dekalb-county-news/underwood-marter-step-under-very-different-spotlights/
As the campaigns of Democratic 14th Congressional District incumbent Lauren Underwood and Republican challenger James Marter gear up for the post-Labor Day election sprint, they have both found themselves in the spotlight, though of distinctly different sorts. Meanwhile, Underwood seldom mentions Ma...