Everyone has been asking Kathleen Thomas what she is going to do about money... because apparently that is all you need to run for office, well- money and rhetoric. Her response has always been "It is not about the money." More recently she has taken the stance that it would be unconscionable to ask people for money in today's economic environment. These are statements people have rolled their eyes at. Funny thing, though, because it turns out her statement "not about the money" is not that far off.
This Monday the Tribune/WGN-TV released a poll that had Kathleen Thomas tied for second among Republican voters with Patrick Hughs. So what does this have to do with money? Kathleen Thomas has spent about 1/10 of what Patrick Hughs has spent on campaigning and according to this poll spending that vast difference in money had brought them to the exact same place.
This is exactly what Kathleen Thomas' campaign is about though, proving that you can do things in Illinois differently. Yes, Mark Kirk is significantly ahead with his reported 3 million dollars as is Democratic poll leader Alexi Giannoulias, a Chicago banking heir (I don't know much about him, but "Chicago banking heir" just makes me laugh). Illinois campaigning can be different. And shouldn't spending 3 million dollars on a state primary campaign be abnormal, not to mention morally wrong?
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