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The Illinois Leader criticizes Topinka for being accepting of gays and lesbians. Or are they just playing to the crowd like Jeb?
October 2002
Fit for Halloween Rich Miller
Fit for Halloween
Rich Miller at the Capitol Fax sums up the campaign:
STATEWIDE GOOFS Did you see that Jim Ryan believes the AFL-CIO intended to put George Ryan’s photo on a mailer instead of his in order to continue tying him in voters’ minds with the governor? The state fed says the mailer was done by the national operation and somebody just made a mistake. But JRyan insists there was a vast conspiracy. Maybe now we can see how he could have prosecuted Rolando Cruz twice without any physical evidence
The Trib Needs a clue
The Trib Needs a clue
The Redeye has debuted, but has virtually no on-line prescence. If you are hoping to attract younger folks with higher incomes, an on-line presence and attraction would seem to be a necessary feature. But they do have Steve Rosenbloom three times a week…\
And apparently, Steve Rhodes agrees with me.
Agenda for Dem Sweep in
Agenda for Dem Sweep in Illinois
Illinois Issues does a story on the impact of a Democratic Sweep of Illinois Government. Connecting the dots, Duchossis has started spreading money to Emil Jones so the claim
Elimination of subsidies to Repub-lican horseracing magnate Richard Duchossois and a variety of GOP-crafted tax breaks granted corporations over the years to fill likely budget holes;
isn’t likely to come to pass.
For the Comment sections over
For the Comment sections over at Either MYDD or DailyKos
The Back Room is predicting that a Dem sweep in Illinois will bring back straight-ticket voting. Good call.
The Dean wiffs… He never
The Dean wiffs…
He never seems to capture the larger issues in Illinois. Ryan has run the worst campaign this cycle with the exception of Bill Simon. Now J-Ry isn’t a Bill Simon, but his campaign has been horrid and he doesn’t have a message. I don’ think he could overcome the cards dealt him this year, but he hasn’t even given a credible effot.
When you only have a
When you only have a hammer…
Don Wycliff takes on the amen chorus of dot connectors and points out the shoddiness of one particular twit.
Harvey Pitt’s Head on a
Harvey Pitt’s Head on a Platter
Most political wounds are self-inflicted and this one is a doozy. Webster disclosed and for whatever it is worth, he did the right thing. Pitt didn’t and that is unacceptable. While there is no evidence that Webster was involved in hanky-panky, disclosing a fact related to his past performance in corporate oversight is unacceptable.
Coming Next: Indictment Season for
Coming Next: Indictment Season for the ICFST
Bad, bad, bad news for the Governor and the ICFST. The finger in the dyke was just pulled. This guy probably has dirt gone through a C-14 half life.
Daniels stepping down to focus on his soon to be indictment and this may bring G-Ry down after leaving office. I suppose the R’s will have to stop complaining about Dan Walker then.
Neal’s Poll Analysis Sun-Times Columnist
Neal’s Poll Analysis
Sun-Times Columnist Steve Neal points out that the polls are consistently supporting a large Blagojevich lead. Far from the inane analysis yesterday insisting that J-Ry has momentum, he is stuck at around 40% or below. Worse, he is barely breaking 50 in the collar counties and below 50 downstate. Some of that will come home at the end, but 6 days out he should be around 60 in both areas. Worse, he is off-message and whining about tactics instead of what the hell he is going to do. His commercials breaking in St. Louis are finally doing what he should have done 3 months ago–establish J-Ry as his own person. By this strategy he might just close the gap sometime in 2004.