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Reason to Vote for a Big Fat Greek Guy for Mayor
We won’t have to see his Big Fat Hairy Greek Ass.
2002
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The depths of pork in Illinois is explored. It explains a lot about how Illinois works, but I won’t go into it more for now.
Mosely-Braun Takedown
Carol Marin is one of the more respected, if not heavily watched, news people in Chicago and she sets out the case against Carol Mosely-Braun.
Some choice graphs:
One example. Before freshmen senators go to work in Washington, there is an orientation program to help them learn the lay of the land. You skipped it. Rather than roll up your sleeves right away and show you were both symbol and substance, you hopped a flight to Nigeria and paid your respects to the dictator of the most populous country in Africa, Gen. Sani Abacha. Despite Abacha’s hideous record on human rights, including the assassination of his enemies, you remained a periodic visitor to the country and you were the lone member of the Senate and the lone member of the Congressional Black Caucus who opposed sanctions against that repressive regime.
Then there was the campaign finance mess. The Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service argued that you and your campaign manager and then-fiance, Kgosie Matthews, spent as much as $270,000 of campaign donations on Armani outfits, jewelry, Jeeps and vacations. Three times IRS investigators tried to impanel a grand jury. But the Justice Department did something experts say it virtually never does in this type of case. Citing "insufficient evidence," it refused to grant the IRS the subpoena power it requested in order to gather the evidence. You dismissed the whole thing as a witch hunt.
That’s all in the past, of course. So what about today? Two words: Bill Shaw. Voters only have to look at this most recent election to scratch their heads and ask, "What were you thinking?" OK, as President Bill Clinton’s ambassador to New Zealand, you’d been away for awhile. But why would you choose the Nov. 5 election to mark your re-entry to Chicago politics with radio and newspaper ads supporting Bill Shaw, of the politically notorious Shaw brothers, over Rev. James Meeks for a seat in the Illinois Senate? This is progressive politics?
Adding to this fine column, let’s not forget when she left her position in Cook County she fired the entire staff on one of the last days and replaced them with political hacks. This was gratuitous even by Chicago Standards.
And the best example of poor policy and strategy analysis was getting the Trib company a big tax break. Why a giant corporation needed it is unclear other than someone was trying to curry favor with the editorial board. But that didn’t work. The Trib blasted her for it.
She is another example of everything I hate about the Republican Party. I’ll post more on this later.
ahhhh…the irony
Dennis Byrne spews his usual column light on substance, heavy on aspersions. In it, he makes a point of backing Everett Dirksen for his support of the Civil Rights Act. Then he trashes the elites for trying to take out Fitzgerald. Has it occurred to him that Dirksen was actually the kind of character he is complaining about?
Communists at the Tribune
are suggesting Pete Rose might get a second chance if he confesses. Like hell. He bet on the game and his own team. Screw him. None of this liberal mamby pamby nonsense about redemption. He screwed with my game and he is out.
BJU and how it fits in the Republican Party
Virginia Postrel posts on why BJU has such a hold on Republican Candidates from a while ago and it is good reading given current events. I don’t quite see the Democrats as darkly trying to remake society, but otherwise good reading.
Big Jim for 9/11 Panel?
WTF? Jim Thompson knows just about zilch about terrorism. Besides being well-connected this makes no sense. Well, actually it does. He won’t rock any boats.
What kind of Fruitcake would give Gordon Lee Baum a show?
This kind. A few out of the area folks asked what kind of radio station would give the CofCC a radio show and I think this article sums it up pretty well. The same kind that would give Lizz Brown a show.
CoCC Radio
Alas, my hopes were dashed. Primarly Gordon Lee Baum and Earl Holt III were relegated to whining about how Lott isn’t nearly as conservative as a people think. Though Baum did mention that he had visited Lott’s office before he was majority leader. Apparently Baum made an appearance of Fox News last night…did anyone catch that? Otherwise, an unpleasant evening of race-baiting.
The South St. Louis accent is too much on that clown. But he has the nerve to whine about African-American speech. I’ll be linking to the photos of the CofCC protests at some point this week. If you want evidence of lead poisoning….
Make up your mind
The Washington Post has Nickels on the front page of the on-line version, but Nickles in the story. It is:
Nickles
Update: Not that I want to revisit the Hines-Hynes affair 😉