One woman has submitted her transcript for her 1996 Bachelors Degree. It’s not bad, but it’s not good so I have no idea why it was submitted though I do have to wonder if this isn’t a self reinforcing way for Madigan’ s people to prove to themselves a web presence only brings problems given what we are seeing from applicants.
What strengths would you bring to the ticket? I AM A NOBODY WITH A SLIGHTLY CHECKERED
PAST. THE PRESS WOULD HAVE A FIELD-DAY FOLLOWING ME AROUND, LEAVING GOVERNOR
QUINN TIME TO DO HIS JOB. I AM A TWO-TIME CANCER SURVIVOR, SHOWING THAT YOU CAN
RETURN FROM THE ASHES. I AM THE REAL DEAL, JUST A PERSON THAT LIVES IN ILLINOIS, HAS
NO POLITICAL TIES, IS DYSLEXIC, AND WILL NOT BARK LIKE A DOG WHEN TOLD TO BY SOME
POLITICAL HANDLER. I Truly BELIEVE GOVERNOR QUINN WHEN HE SPEAKS ON THE ISSUES
CONCERNING THE STATE AND THE PROBLEMS WE ARE FACING. AFTER LOOKING AT THINGS FOR
MYSELF I AM FULLY CAPABLE TO MAKE DECISIONS, INCLUDING I DON’T KNOW, LET’S GET THE
LAWYERS IN HERE. IF YOU HAVE GOTTEN THIS FAR IN MY APPLICATION THEN YOU ALREADY
KNOW THAT I WOULD BE PERFECT FOR THE JOB.
Please list any organizations or elected officials that have endorsed your candidacy for
lieutenant governor. NONE, I AM A LOCAL 265 SHEET METAL WORKER OUT OF WORK AT THIS
TIME AND COULD USE THE JOB
Beyond that, the number of lawyers who have put in applications is rather astounding.
“We were told by legal opinion that he likely was [released early],” Brady said.
Asked what he meant by the term “legal opinion,” Brady said, “It means we consulted people with a law degree.”
Pressed further whether that meant anyone at the Sangamon County state’s attorney’s office, which charged Phillips, Brady said, “No. Advisers who we have who are lawyers.”
It is true that he was released early, but the reason was because of a two month award from DOC in 2007–long before Quinn. It’s almost painful to watch someone this bad.
March 04, 2010By: ArchPundit Category: Uncategorized
Bill Brady, the gift that will keep on giving:
Poor Cross and Radogno. Notice Cross’ face stays emotionless, while Radogno looks up in surprise. I imagine by the end of this cucle she’ll learn. Cross seems to have been checking out his Blackberry the entire time.
about 3:15 in…
Press: There’s a list on line.
Brady: There is? We have asked the Governor’s office for a list of the backgrounds.
The AP article–incredibly well done so kudos to them, points out how off base Brady is:
Brady questioned whether Phillips was eligible for meritorious good time because of his crime.
State law indicates the credit does not apply when a judge finds that the victim of vehicular hijacking suffered great bodily harm. Such felons must serve 85 percent of their sentences, which Brady suggested should have applied to Phillips.
But the Cook County state’s attorney’s office told the AP in January there was no finding of great bodily harm in Phillips’ case.
The law is worded in a way that could be read to deny meritorious good time for everyone convicted of vehicular hijacking. But criminal defense lawyers contacted earlier by the AP generally said the law appears to have been properly applied in Phillips’ case.
Brady said that even if Phillips was eligible for time off for good behavior, he should not have received it.
“The mistake was that they released someone who shouldn’t be released who (later) committed murder,” Brady said. “We’re not suggesting that the governor broke the law. We’re saying he made a misjudgment. He put violent offenders on the streets.”
Brady also proposed legislation requiring Corrections to maintain a public list of all prisoners released before serving 100 percent of their sentences. That would cover nearly every inmate.
The department already provides a service that lets taxpayers register to be notified about the status of specific inmates.
Phillips, 21, and his cousin, Antonio Phillips, 20, were indicted last month on charges they robbed and murdered Suggs, who was found dead inside his car Dec. 10 near Lincoln and Mossman avenues.
At this point then, Brady has a dispute primarily with the law allowing such releases, but this has nothing to do with the programs that are controversial. If Brady disagrees with the practice then Brady should introduce a bill strengthening the Truth in Sentencing law. While he’s at it, he can tell us where the magical money tree is going to come from to keep more prisoners incarcerated. I’m sure he can look to California for ways to do that.
At this point, it appears the entire Brady campaign is about finding a magical unicorn to make his policies realistic.
While I don’t really have a problem with the bill he’s introducing to give people more information about prisoner’s being released, the list is pretty easy to use–simply use the search in Acrobat and you can find only one Phillips–not Jonathan. I’d be happy to show him how it works….
4. What strengths would you bring to the ticket? Illinois Democrats need to take heed to
the revolt voters have take against the “established politicians”. The Massachuttes
Senate election should serve as a stern warning across the land that status quo and past
strong hold no longer are in effect.
March 03, 2010By: ArchPundit Category: Uncategorized
Not that there’s anything wrong with that:
1. Why are you a Democrat? Who said I was?
5. Please list any organizations or elected officials that have endorsed your candidacy for
lieutenant governor. No one, I’m just an every day regular guy. No wealth to speak of, no
network of business connections, and most importantly, NO one I owe any favors to. I don’t
have a bunch of skeletons in my closet, or people trying to dig up dirt to damage my reputation.
I can be a bit of a devils advocate on occasion but that is merely to provoke a response usually
(and hopefully a thought process or two). I’m my OWN man. I think formyself, with an eye to
see things as they are, not how some media pundit would have me see them. I am a family man,
I have been married for 20 years and have a 17 year old daughter who is the joy of my life. An
honor Student, a CNA at one of the area nursing homes (her mother is a Physical Therapist), and
she will be starting college this summer after she graduates from Metamora Township High
School.
There’s a lot of pride in the fact that the applicants are in no way connected to state government or politics. I’m pretty sure that’s not an effective argument when wanting to be second in line to running the state government.
5. Please list any organizations or elected officials that have endorsed your candidacy for
lieutenant governor.
My father, David C. Ford, always supported and encouraged me to get into politics. He served
as County Prosecutor for Blackford County, Indiana and State Senator for the 19th District of
Indiana. He’s understandably biased, however.
4. What strengths would you bring to the ticket? I am an unknown, no experience and with NO
TIES TO ANYONE! I will accept nothing with strings attached. I have no skeletons in my closet.
Consider Scott Lee Cohen and what he accomplished. I think the people want someone to
represent THEM for a change, not some fancy lawyer (sorry but that is what is happened). This
may sound stupid but MY CHECK BOOK IS ALWAYS BALANCED, IS THE STATES?? That’s my
strength.
I am a Native American, enrolled as such with The Southern Band of The Cherokee
Nation; I worked for the Sangamon County Sheriff and have been in law Enforcement
for over 40 years. I know a lot of people on both parties. My mother’s ancestry goes
back to General John Sevier who was a Brigadier General under George Washington
and the first Governor of the State of Tennessee. My ancestors have been involved in
every war or conflict since the American Revelation with the exception of the Middle
East Wars.
I think I would make a good candidate for Lieutenant Governor because I have never
been a person to kiss butt and have always put the American People First.
This kind of stupid ass stunt is something the Illinois GOP specializes. Apparently stupid is contagious.
A criminal defense attorney who represented former Cicero Town President Betty Loren-Maltese has joined the growing list of Democrats who want to succeed Scott Lee Cohen as the party’s lieutenant governor candidate.
Another 25 political newcomers submitted their names to the state Democratic Party, bringing the total to 69. Two potential candidates who submitted their names already have dropped out of consideration.
My favorite from the form is from someone else though:
5. Please list any organizations or elected officials that have endorsed your candidacy for
lieutenant governor. None yet, but I bet I could get my NSDAR (National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution) Chapter to endorse me. Who knows who else. I know
lots of little people.
Blagojevich, a Northwestern alum, who married his wife, Patti, on the campus 20 years ago, revealed the feds have subpoenaed his grades and student information from when he attended 30 years ago.
He invited the FBI to also look at his law school performance at Pepperdine Law School in Malibu, Calif.
“If they look at those grades they’ll see — I obviously never cheated on an exam,” Blagojevich said to much laughter.
Blagojevich spoke to a skeptical student body, who didn’t cut him much slack. They laughed when he plugged his book and drew parallels between his case and the war in Iraq.
Blagojevich won chuckles when he said there was “nothing ethically wrong,” with wanting to meet Sarah Palin.
He was booed when he likened U.S. Senate leaders to southern segregationists for initially not allowing his pick for senator — Roland Burris — into the U.S. Capitol last year.
“Shame,” someone from the crowd shouted.
“You don’t like Burris?” Blagojevich asked.
“No — you,” he responded.
“My friend, I have love in my heart for you,” the ex-governor said.
Like soughern segregationists? Really?
More likely, the story about the student records subpeona is bogus. Not that it matters, but he lies about silly stuff like that for sport.
You too can apply by downloading the form. Some even have references!
And yes, I would, but that Missouri address makes it out of the question.
I do want to give credit to the Party and Madigan’s people for doing this–even if it’s a horrible way to go about this–that’s not fully in their court, but I am very impressed they are using the web site and doing so productively. Just don’t lose the password to the site for another couple years
This will get a lot of ink tomorrow, but here’s some perpective: Illinois politics is as divided by regional culture as by party, and the House Ag & Conservation Committee is heavily populated with rural downstaters, who tend to be pro-gun regardless of party affiliation.
Next stop is the full House, which is controlled by Chicago Democrats like Hamos, who are overwhelmingly anti-gun — and who are unlikely to even let this come to a floor vote unless they’re sure they can defeat it.
(Case in point: At the same time the House committee was passing the measure today, a committee of the Senate — also controlled by Chicago Dems — was sticking a similar conceal-carry measure into a subcommittee, which is often code for, “kill it.” We’ll see.)
This same committee has passed a concealed carry bill at least 3 times and probably more. It’s nothing more than political theater. It will never get to the floor because it will die in Rules and not just because of Chicago Democrats. Suburban Republicans don’t want to have to vote on the bill and certainly Cross doesn’t want it brought up anymore than Madigan. They won’t let it come to a vote on the floor regardless of whether they can defeat it. That’s the whole point of putting it in the Ag Committee. It’s largely full of pro-gun Rs and Ds and so they get to go home and say they voted for concealed carry and those in areas where it’s a tough vote never have to see the bill. The only people the bill matters too get to vote on it and use it in their reelection campaigns. Everyone else gets to ignore it.
Same stuff, different day.
Every time I write this I get some dimbulb in arguing the merits of concealed carry and how it really might pass this year because of the strength of their reasoning ability. Bullcrap. It’s a bill designed to protect incumbents on both sides of the issue and meant to never see the light of day. If those backing concealed carry don’t see that, well, that explains their level of success over the years doesn’t it?
I don’t mind that reporters have to play things evenhanded about an issue, but this kind of reporting is ridiculous. Everyone with any clues knows this game–we’ve seen it for years on this issue alone. No one should pretend this is a serious bill–it misrepresents the situation to readers.
Five leading Democrats–including Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin–have publicly announced that they will vote for a public option if it’s offered up during the budget reconciliation process, where legislation can pass with a majority vote.
“Sen. Durbin has long been a supporter of the public option,” reads a statement from Durbin spokesman Joe Shoemaker to the progressive groups Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Democracy for America, and Credo. “I don’t know whether the votes exist in the Senate right now, but if the House version of the public option came up for a vote in reconciliation Sen. Durbin would vote yes.”
I don’t think there was much of a question about whether he was willing, but whether he would go on record. As second in leadership for the Dems in the Senate this is a strong message. The last 21 will be tough, but it’s a possibility.
Why Does Alexi Need a Special Request to Give Back His Million-Dollar Payout When the Family Bank is Near Collapse?
“If my family asks me, sure” – Chicago Sun-Times, February 22, 2010
Does Alexi need a special request to do the right thing and stop a potential taxpayer bailout for his family’s bank?
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Now 25 days since promising reporters he would answer questions surrounding his role in the near-collapse of his family’s Broadway Bank, the Illinois Republican Party is asking Democrat Alexi Giannoulias to explain why he needs to wait for a request from his family to return his million-dollar payout when the bank is already near collapse and it could help prevent a taxpayer bailout for the bank from the FDIC.
This morning, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that the Giannoulias-owned Broadway Bank “was struggling because it had relied so heavily on high-risk loans of the type Giannoulias approved as vice president” and added that Giannoulias’ “Democratic primary election rival, David Hoffman, hammered Giannoulias on the stump with that fact.” But when asked by the Sun-Times whether he would “give back any of that $1 million” in dividends he removed from the bank in 2007 and 2008, Giannoulias replied, “If my family asks me, sure.”
“While Alexi Giannoulias refuses to answer basic questions about his risky loan schemes, reckless investments and ties to organized crime figures, the least Alexi can do is return his million-dollar payout he received from the risky banking practices and work to prevent a federal taxpayer bailout for the bank he helped bring near collapse,” Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady said.
Illinois’ Republican Party is keeping up a steady drumbeat of pressure on Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Alexi Giannoulias to answer questions about his family’s Broadway Bank.
“Why is Alexi hiding?” the party asked in an e-mail to reporters a week after the election and after news conferences Giannoulias had held in Chicago and Springfield.
“Put Alexi on the phone,” they repeated Wednesday.
In at least 10 e-mails sent out since the election, the party says Giannoulias is ducking questions about loans he authorized four years ago as vice-president of his family’s Broadway Bank and about the bank’s current troubled financial state.
They repeat a line he used days before the election to wave off further questions about the bank: “If I’m fortunate enough to make it out of the primary, we can have that conversation.”
The Chicago Tribune’s editorial page piggy-backed on the e-mails and said Giannoulias needs to answer more questions about his role at the bank now that he has been fortunate enough to make it out of the primary.
But the truth is that Giannoulias has been answering questions about the loans for four years, ever since his first run for office. Never gleefully or enthusiastically. He often tries to beg off questions by noting he has not been at the bank in four years. But over the years, when pressed, he has admitted he made loans to mobsters and said if he had known they were mobsters he would not have made the loans.
Most recently in December, Giannoulias spent 12 minutes before Sun-Times editorial board members answering questions about the loans. Hear the full conversation at www.suntimes.com.
At first he said, “Knowing back then what the bank knew at the time, we probably wouldn’t have given the loans.” Then he clarified: “If I knew then what we knew now, obviously we wouldn’t have made those loans.”
What has changed since Giannoulias sat and answered questions for the Sun-Times and Tribune editorial boards the last time is that his family’s bank entered into a consent decree with state and federal regulators just before the election. While that development is new, the fact that Broadway Bank was struggling because it had relied so heavily on high-risk loans — and that Giannoulias had approved some high-risk loans as vice president — was already well-known. His Democratic primary election rival, David Hoffman, hammered Giannoulias on the stump with that fact.
One question the e-mails from the Republicans and the Tribune editorial say Giannoulias should answer is whether he plans to give back any of the dividends paid out after his father’s death. That was $70 million to $86 million the Giannoulias family took out of the bank as it was struggling. Giannoulias said that money went to cover taxes on his father’s estate and the administration costs of handling that estate. Only $2.5 million of that went to Alexi Giannoulias and about $1.5 million of that went to taxes Giannoulias campaign has said. Will Giannoulias give back any of that $1 million?
“If my family asks me, sure,” he told the Sun-Times.
The rest of the article covers Alexi’s specific answers which cover most of the questions. When you go over the top on this stuff, the press in Illinois at least, stops listening. It’s fine to bring up Broadway, but don’t pretend he hasn’t been answering questions about it.
