LOL - sorry, couldn't even read this when I saw two headlines on its page:

1) "The Schneider Shenanigans"

2) "Support Freedom" (in case some of you are against it)

I'm sure I'm missing out on a very informative and fact-based piece of writing that has no biases whatsoever, but I'll take my chances.

Here's the filing straight from the democrat horse's mouth. He's showing zero income for both businesses. How does that square with his self-description as a small businessman?

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/130559223/IL-10-Schneider-2012-1

Actually, it was Reid in the house obstructing most everything. The House would send bills over and he would just sit on them - not even letting them come up for a vote. The Senate hasn't even don't anything about a budget in THREE YEARS.

Dear RB, I am sure you will see things in a different light when you finish school get a job and move out of your parents’ house.

RationalTht - sorry, meant to say "Reid in the Senate"...

Liberty has been dead for longer than the botoxed minority leader has been alive.

Romney says he'll let us know what loopholes (mortgage deduction?) he's going to end.....after the election. Don't pull quotes of Nancy Pelozzi unless you're willing to quote Mitt's similar comment too!

OK great. I'm not sure why you quoted my question without addressing it.

"they had $1.8 mil revenues only in the Northfield office. how did they manage to come up with expenses greater than that?"

Spoken like a guy that's never had to meet a payroll.

- Salaries
- Benefits
- Rent
- Equipment
- Materials
- Asset Depreciation

Let's just look at salaries. Maybe there are 10 people, at $50,000 average a year, plus say $10,000/year for benefits, gets you to $600,000. One third of your "revenues" gone before even taking into account "raw materials" / supplies (pesticide, gloves, breathers, etc). Also, say they purchased vehicles. They are not allowed to take the full expense of the vehicle as a business expense when purchased, instead they must depreciate over a set number of years.

@ "un"rational thought: Salaries you say? The bastard Dold CUT salaries and stopped paying overtime. Pesticides cost about $3 per job (house) and there was not an explosion of new customers. Rest is $0 as he owns the building. Benefits are $0 except for his mom, Judy Dold who is "chairwoman" (sic). Materials, the sprayer actually is $225 and was bought in...maybe 1995 because they all were almost broke...ask the techs. Cars...same crap, 150.000 miles on them except the two new trucks bought for...vice president and office manager to go home and back 9they don't serve customers). Breathers...who ever used those? (by the way ask Dold when was last time he bought the filters necessary? 1983? :) You, and guido, speak as you never worked for Dold. I wish you never do...it will make a Democrat out of you, quick :) I tell you how they blew a $1.8 mil income in one year: salaries to him, to his mom, to his dad (some type of co-owner or something)...and voala, no money for pay increase, or pay (they cut the pay), or overtime, or decent trucks,. The bastards even started charging techs $22 per month for uniform cleaning even though we cleaned them at home, as always. Dold is a crook my friends, I worked for him, I know and you guys are idiots who will vote for him no matter what you hear about him.

@supporter (athletic type?) - You seem to be spouting a lot of "facts" - makes me wonder where you are pulling them from.

"You, and guido, speak as you never worked for Dold. I wish you never do...it will make a Democrat out of you, quick"

Nah, I'm not a violent person. I would never align with the red or blue tribes of the War Party.

"you will vote"

That would require me to register. You have a better chance of hitting the lottery. I couldn't care less about the outcome in any election. Freedom will take a hit either way.

Voting is a violent act. You're picking your preferred flavor of coercion to inflict on your fellow citizens. I will not be a part of violence and I will not sanction the evil of two lessers.

Further, I often hear that you must vote in order to complain later. This is precisely backwards.

If you vote, you are sanctioning the process with an implicit agreement to live with the result.

If I don't sanction such shenanigans, I absolutely have the right to complain about the coercive violence that is inflicted upon me and my family.

Probably the same reason they have not investigated Dold's true meaningful voting record and the Tea Party support he enjoyed when he first ran for election.

"I want to ask why Steve Sadin or any other Patch reporter has not investigated Brad Schneider's business record?"

Math is hard. When Schneider puts himself out as a small businessman with zero revenue in 2010 or 2011, no one wants to add those numbers together. It'll take all day.