Ok, DUers. . .ante up! Shimkus opponent fundraising on the rise. . .

From a Post-Dispatch writer:

Shimkus challenger Stover sees increase in contributions

BY ADAM JADHAV, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

COLLINSVILLE _ When congressional challenger Dan Stover went to bed Sunday night, his online fundraising account was barely over $1,000.

Less than 48 hours later, as national headlines screamed sex scandal in Congress, that amount had more than quadrupled.

Granted, that seems like a paltry amount, considering Stover faces Rep. John Shimkus, R-Collinsville, who sits on a $1.1 million war chest. But Stover and his supporters call it a glimmer of hope in a race that political prognosticators had all but written off.

It was the classic challenger's scenario: an upset believed possible only with help of a scandal.

Now Shimkus - the clean-shaven West Point grad, former Army Ranger and high school teacher - risks being caught in the fallout from the debacle surrounding former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., who abruptly resigned last week after he was confronted with salacious electronic messages he reportedly sent to a teenage congressional page.

http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2006/10/04/afternoon_evening/doc4523f978ba921222520144.txt

sorry I left that one out...

http://www.stoverforcongress.us/