Jose...we do have term limits...they are called elections.

Another Tea Party loser we now hear from, must be a Joe walsh supporter also

Larry - Why the personal attack and name calling? Not very mature

Joe, is ok. Dold wasted $9 mil and for what? It seems people's votes could after all beat crooks '$ billions. Pretty soon all peasants will want full-time jobs and health care and all that reserved only for the Dolds..insolent peasants these voters...

The GOP controlled the Lake County Board mapping and it played to their advantage. You have an issue with that also?

TJ, thanks for your comment. The $13.1 million includes the money the candidates raised as well as the amount outside independent expenditure groups spent on television advertising.

Larry, if it makes you feel better to label someone that’s a reflection on you not me. My reference was on the 10th dist. and geared to Dold not Walsh but his dist. was also rigged now that you mention it. Here is the fact Madigan’s people used statistical analysts to redraw the borders. I used to be a democrat then a republican, now just someone that draws his thinking from the current realities. Honestly it boggles the mind to think about the current Illinois financial situation and then double down on democrats. Illinois democratic are not the ones your collage professors told you about, they are the self-serving political machine driven politicians that only serve their own interests. I only wish folks like you Larry would come out of your democratic bubble long enough to see where we are heading.

Really? How did big business do in this last election cycle?

The misuse of 501(c)(3) non-profits is the real problem in politics today. George Soros and Rupert Murdock use them when they support their Left- or Right-wing fringe groups. And taxpayers pay for both. Corporate CEOs and unions that want to invest in so-called non-partisan (yet biased) “think tanks” like Cato or Heritage, when they want to develop slanted studies that support their agendas and block others (like blocking legislation that would increase their tax liability but increase yours). I am not sure if anyone looked at the mailings or small print this election cycle, but if you did you will find out it was 100% 501(c) driven.

Companies can't vote......why should they be able to contribute?

And the problem is money in Politics with out a doubt. Because money is the corruption. There is nothing wrong with power if the incentive is for the public good. When the incentive is for money because you need so much to get elected, each cycle takes more and more money, then that is the rub.

And why should rich people have more say than anyone else? limiting donations to 1k and eliminating company contributions (employees can contribute) is the only way to bring the balance back.

it takes 1 Billion dollars to become President.....a 400k a year job. Makes no sense at all.

Over 3 Billion dollars in the last election cycle......crazy!

"There is nothing wrong with power if the incentive is for the public good."

Uh, er, aaaah, hmmmm. Well, uh, gosh! Oh boy. power, oppression, suffering, injustice, genocide, death, slavery, ignorance, history, history, History... Eureka! HISTORY!!!

That's it! Read some history about how much death and destruction has been meted out by those who claimed to wield power for the "public good". I can recommend "Death by Government" by R.J. Rummel.

When you finish that you might want to look into the theory of the US Constitution, where the whole intention was to LIMIT the power granted to the highest levels of government. Those limits to power were seen as they key to promoting the public good.

Wow. You almost melted my brain with that comment.

youre talking in circles......Oppression, suffering, and injustice are not for the public good.

Somehow money for power is? How do you limit power buy allowing unlimited amounts of money? (this should be good)

I'll try not to disappoint you.

220 years ago some Tea Party types found themselves with a brand new country and were asking themselves that very same question, "How do we create a government that will protect individuals' rights, while keeping the wealthy and powerful from controlling everything?"

The first thing they did was hand the source of all the power to the people by putting them in charge of selecting their leaders (Republic). Then they created a document which explicitly stated what the duties of that new federal government would be, and made sure it included only a few critical things, leaving all other powers to the States or the to the people (limited government). Then they protected this new government from abuse by dividing the power into three branches so that no one person or small group could grab control without fight from the other branches (separation of powers).

They wrote the US Constitution, and the greatest country the world has every seen was born.

They knew this new form of government could only survive as long as the people bought into the underlying ideology of freedom, individuals' rights, and limited government which is the foundation of good governance. If the people gave up on those concepts, and were willing to sacrifice their rights and freedoms for handouts and favors, then nothing could protect the people from their own corruption, and the government would cease protecting individuals' rights and become a justification for legalized theft where the unscrupulous could gain power by using government authority to take property from their opponents and give it to their friends.

Government degrades into little more than a criminal enterprise. In our case, we have deteriorated to large scale inter-generational theft.

Our only safeguard against this fate is to ensure that we educate our population so that they know the ideological foundation which secures their freedom and prosperity.

.... and now I have also explained why the Democrats are waging a scorched earth war on ideology. That's why people who talk like me are called crazy, ignorant, hateful, heartless, racists. We have to be destroyed to pave the way for "change".

Well, we got it.

Actually, a Congressman's job is uphold the oath they took when they entered office:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God. "

You are right about one thing though. The Tea Party is over in Illinois, but then it never really had any power in Illinois in the first place. Everyone take note that the Tea Party, and all "angry old white men" have nothing to do with the government now running Illinois. We answer for nothing that happens here.

Clive, can you tell me what the Tea Party did to destroy the finances of Illinois? If they didn't, who did? What are the Democrat's plans for fixing it?

Tough questions that no one is asking.

Oh, and if raising taxes at the federal level is the solution to our fiscal problems, why didn't raising taxes in Illinois work?

No one will answer that question.

Probably busy crafting his Mike Madigan zingers for 2014.