Monday, February 27, 2006
David McSweeney and Al Salvi Trade Barbs
If a candidate’s husband is fighting with her opponent, what effect does that have on the campaign?
I certainly don’t know, but the pollsters will have a field day trying to figure it out.
Kathy Salvi’s husband, Al Salvi has a radio call-in program on Waukegan’s WKRS. The station had good reach into all of the Lake County portion of the 8th congressional district and even into northern Cook County. When I used to appear on the station in the 1970’s, I could hear it when I reached McHenry.
So, WKRS is probably the most important station in the congressional race.
There has been bad blood for a long time between the two men. It goes back at least to the 1998 primary, when McSweeney ran against Phil Crane. Salvi supported Crane.
When McSweeney thought that Al was going to run against him, he called for WKRS to drop Al’s 10-noon show.
Then, Al’s wife Kathy decided to run.
Al invited McSweeney to appear on his show. There is a Waukegan News-Sun article and a Northwest Herald column about what took place next.
Northwest Herald columnist Brian Slupski concluded it was “petty.”
Usually it is campaign managers or chairman who are the attack dogs in a campaign. Having a husband come to his wife’s defense and, perhaps, even lead the attack is something I haven’t seen before.
I certainly don’t know, but the pollsters will have a field day trying to figure it out.
Kathy Salvi’s husband, Al Salvi has a radio call-in program on Waukegan’s WKRS. The station had good reach into all of the Lake County portion of the 8th congressional district and even into northern Cook County. When I used to appear on the station in the 1970’s, I could hear it when I reached McHenry.
So, WKRS is probably the most important station in the congressional race.
There has been bad blood for a long time between the two men. It goes back at least to the 1998 primary, when McSweeney ran against Phil Crane. Salvi supported Crane.
When McSweeney thought that Al was going to run against him, he called for WKRS to drop Al’s 10-noon show.
Then, Al’s wife Kathy decided to run.
Al invited McSweeney to appear on his show. There is a Waukegan News-Sun article and a Northwest Herald column about what took place next.
Northwest Herald columnist Brian Slupski concluded it was “petty.”
Usually it is campaign managers or chairman who are the attack dogs in a campaign. Having a husband come to his wife’s defense and, perhaps, even lead the attack is something I haven’t seen before.
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Cal-- McSweeney told a reporter that Salvi "made an ass of me." Salvi responded by saying "McSweeney made an ass of himself." I heard it-- McSweeney is more like Nixon than Reagan!
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