2003

Rush Endorses Hull

ArchPundit July 22, 2003 No Comments

Bobby Rush endorses Blair Hull. It would appear that Blair Hull has exploited the Steve Neal column to great benefit and Rush’s denials concerning that article.

Hull is running a smart campaign. One of the signs of a good campaign is picking up on others mistakes and in this case, pushing Rush out there too far made him vulnerable with only one candidate to support and not look like a tool of the Machine.

For the alternative view, and for a column that was described as weird to me–an analysis that captures it well–is Steve Neal’s column this morning. Really, this isn’t too surprising and should have been obvious to anyone paying attention. After Neal’s last column what could Rush do?

Back Obama? No, first it would make him look weak and two he hates Obama’s guts.

Back Washington? No, he’d look like a tool of the Machine.

Back Chico? Possibly, but Chico appears dead in the water?

Back Hynes? hahahahahaha…talk about looking like a tool of the Machine

Back Hull? Safe and it makes him look like he is his own man.

Steve Neal helped create this situation, why is he surprised at the outcome.

And just let me say, I butchered Rush’s first name previously. I don’t know how, but the next contest should be to see how I can spell Blair Hull wrong.

Alternative Take on Hynes’ Money

ArchPundit July 22, 2003 No Comments

Dallas Morning News Blog

ArchPundit July 22, 2003 No Comments

National Review Online writer Rod Dreher recently departed the NRO to go to the Dallas Morning News’ editorial page and apparently has gotten a blog started.

A couple thoughts–first, this will never come to the Post-Dispatch which is utterly clueless about the Internet–and just about anything else, this is a long way off. Thanks to Old Tasty for the heads up.

Two, why the hell haven’t the competing young editions of the Trib and Sun-Times adopted blogs. Hell, the Trib has a writer with a good blog in Nathan Bierma. Eric Zorn is just this close to having a blog with his on-line site.

Chip Taylor is Back

ArchPundit July 21, 2003 No Comments

Chip Taylor is back and blogging from South Carolina. I’ll be adding him to the state coverage as he will be concentrating upon states in general, but not so much local coverage.

Lance picked up about a minute

ArchPundit July 21, 2003 No Comments

After crashing–perhaps he should crash more often

Busy….back after the stage

ArchPundit July 21, 2003 No Comments

Lance is dropping Ulrich right now-

I’ll be Listening to the Radio While Watching the Bears on ESPN

ArchPundit July 17, 2003 No Comments

There are other, better idiots out there who do not offend my sensibilities, and who actually know something about football.

Amen.

The Other Part of the Miquelon Story

ArchPundit July 16, 2003 No Comments

is in Kass’s column today.

Amiel Cueto, the imprisoned, yet soon-to-be-released southern Illinois political boss, recently received a coming-out present.

His enemy, Miriam Miquelon, the woman who put him behind bars for using his law license to protect the gambling rackets, is now out of her job as U.S. attorney of the Southern District.

So, as Cueto prepares for one of those welcome-home red meat political dinners, Miquelon leaves the prosecutor’s office under a cloud.

Miquelon won’t discuss the alleged relationship which is fine, but such a relationship is inappropriate. It isn’t illegal however, and it may or may not be prohibited by DOJ rules. Kass misses this point, but makes an equally strong point that most of the complaints are meant to destroy her credibility so they are suspect.

She does strongly deny that she investigated political opponents and without evidence that she did, I’m highly suspect.

Costello Endorsement Hits

ArchPundit July 16, 2003 No Comments

And it is Dan Hynes. I don’t have a particular problem with Dan Hynes and I like him in general, but I’m more than a little frustrated at the Party Leaders playing footsy with a dirty politician like Costello. Obviously it is a losing strategy to not get him in your corner as Vallas learned, but when do you call a crook a crook?

He sells out African-Americans to the St. Clair machine, he his good buddies with Amiel Cueto, and he was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Cueto case. What does it take? An actual conviction like Cosentino?

Senate FEC Reports Are In

ArchPundit July 16, 2003 No Comments

And man is Hull spending a lot.

But we knew that.

Interesting is that the reports of Dan Hynes having a hard time rasing funds were greatly exaggerated.

Of the non-millionaire Democrats in the race, state Comptroller Dan Hynes raised the most over the past three months: $947,662, bringing his campaign total to $1,844,727. Hynes had spent $284,608 since last year and had $1,560,226 left in the bank.

Now, perhaps that picked up towards the end of the quarter, but he is doing okay.

Obama is doing well,

State Sen. Barack Obama raised $878,359 during the period, bringing his total to $1,412,224. Obama had spent $325,347 and had more than $1 million in the bank.

As is Chico,

Chico raised $477,751 over the past three months, bringing his total to $2,258,317. Chico had spent $914,480 since entering the race and had more than $1.3 million left.

Though it appears that his fundraising is slowing a bit. He needs a good buzz to keep the money coming.

Washington is having problems,

Health care official Joyce Washington raised $95,811 in contributions during the period and donated another $230,000 of her own to her campaign. Washington had spent $62,135 since entering the race and had $439,293 left.

She can’t self-finance and that take isn’t going to do it.
But who kows what she is really trying to do.