Greenberg has new campaign manager

Suburban Republican congressional candidate Steve Greenberg has tapped a campaign worker to take over his entire election operation.

Collin Corbett, who previously had served as a Greenberg field coordinator, now is running the candidate's bid to topple two-term incumbent Rep. Melissa Bean in the 8th House District.

Corbett's predecessor left the job last month.

"We need to let our donors know that there's somebody steering the ship," Corbett said.

A 22-year-old Wauconda resident, Corbett volunteered with other local GOP congressional campaigns before joining Greenberg's team in October.

The Greenberg effort has been Corbett's first full-time campaign job. Greenberg sees his new top adviser's youthfulness as a plus.

"We need to do things differently in the Republican Party," Greenberg said. "Collin brings a can-do attitude, and that's something I want to bring to the Republican Party as a whole."

Corbett replaced Brad Goodman as Greenberg's campaign director. Goodman left to take a job with a Republican consulting firm that counts Greenberg among its clients.

At the time, Greenberg said he wanted a new direction for his campaign as he prepared for the Nov. 4 showdown against Bean and Green Party candidate Iain Abernathy.

Corbett confirmed his promotion Monday, less than a week after a Greenberg fundraiser in Barrington, its first in months.

Greenberg's campaign has been relatively low on cash. According to the most recent campaign disclosure reports available, the campaign had about $5,000 in the bank as of March 31, far less than Bean's roughly $1.4 million total as of the same date.

A Bean spokesman declined to comment. Abernathy said he wasn't greatly concerned with the GOP personnel change.

The 8th District includes parts of Lake, Cook and McHenry counties. The House seat carries a 2-year term.