U.S. Senate Candidate Jim Oberweis Chats With Riley & Scot [AUDIO]

As promised in yesterday's post, here's the full audio from our Monday morning conversation with State Sen. Jim Oberweis, who's running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Dick Durbin.

Most recent polling shows the race is competitive with the incumbent hovering around 50 percent support. We asked Oberweis what his best argument would be to convince any undecided voters that's he'll do a better job in Washington:

I've been an entrepreneur all my life. I've created jobs all my life. Dick Durbin has never created a single private sector job in his entire career. And I don't think he understands what it takes to motivate people to grow their business, to create jobs and opportunity for people. And as more jobs are created, that tends to increase demand for labor which means wages tend to go up...which is the exact opposite of the cycle we've been in under Durbin's policies where over the last six years the average Illinois family has lost $5,053 in average income.

Here's the audio from Part One of our conversation. Topics include job creation, corporate tax rates, the continued delay of the Keystone XL pipeline, and more:

And in Part Two, Oberweis responds to comments Sen. Dick Durbin made in a recent interview with the Sun-Times. Durbin claimed no one really cares about the IRS scandal and called Oberweis' support from Chicago African-American pastors a "novelty":