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April 2004

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More DuPage Fighting

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As I’ve often said, it is one thing to fight, it is another to pull the knives out and depress turnout because all you do is fight as a Party. Schillerstrom is getting attacked by the old line leaders in DuPage for a water deal the old line claims was payed off by supporting O’Hare expansion. The interesting note of the article may be good news though:

But state Sen. Kirk Dillard, DuPage GOP chairman, doubts the Water Commission dustup will hurt Mr. Schillerstrom: “By the time Chairman Schillerstrom runs for re-election or another office, most of this will be old history.”

Most likely Dillard and Schillerstrom will win in the long run–the question is what happens in the mean time.

(Crain’s article so getting in is funky, but possible)

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Republican Outreach

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In a pretty typical column for Kevin McCullough, he argues gay marriage is going to turn African-Americans against Kerry and Obama. Yeah. Right. Every season people argue that African-Americans are going to take Republicans more seriously and vote in fewer numbers for Democrats. And what has happened? The vote share of the African-American vote in national elections has been in the decline since Nixon. While African-Americans are quite socially conservative as a whole in public opinion polls, they vote along another axis-race issues and they vote in what they perceive as their interest.

That doesn’t mean that Republicans can’t make inroads, but it might help if the primary PAC to help minority GOP Candidates spent a about 8.9% of its funds to help them.

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Obama’s Effort to Morph Jack! into W

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Jack! is trying to paint Obama as too liberal, and Obama is trying to paint Jack! as W.

“Really, I think Mr. Ryan is taking a page out of the national Republican play book and asserting that if you do not subscribe to what I consider a ‘radical’ vision of George Bush’s … then you’re a liberal, and I fundamentally reject that.

“My views and the manner to which I’ve operated are closer to moderate Republicans in this state, like Jim Thompson and Jim Edgar, than Jack Ryan’s are.”

and

“If you like the direction George Bush is taking the country, Mr. Ryan is going to be a better choice for you.”

Of course, the Edgar line becomes a problem if there is a meltdown and Edgar is on the ticket.

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Want A Job? Be From St. Clair County

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It’s always nice to see the upstanding folks from St. Clair County being fast-tracked. Scott Flood, hired in May with no natural resource experience or training, has been named Department of Natural Resources regional land manager. He’ll earn $59,472.

Congratulations for all that hard work, Scott.

In other St. Clair County social register tidbits:

Flood is one of several family members of powerful St. Clair County Democrats to get hired by the state despite a general effort by former Gov. George Ryan and Blagojevich to make cuts to offset decreased revenues.

U.S. Rep. Jerry Costello’s son-in-law, Illinois National Guard pilot Brian Keen, was hired in October as a $69,060-per-year pilot for the Illinois Department of Transportation’s Division of Aeronautics. Keen’s duties include flying the governor.

Costello’s son, John P. Costello, was hired in 2001 as a $50,000-a-year auto dealership paperwork checker for the secretary of state.

After Blagojevich took office, Costello’s sister-in-law, Brenda Cockrum, was hired as a $42,000-a-year intern for the Illinois Department of Public Aid.

And Edie Koch, the aunt of Rep. Jay Hoffman, D-Collinsville, was hired in January as the $60,000-a-year director of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity’s “Opportunity Returns” office in Collinsville.

It’s all about family.

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More on Cook County Race

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Carol Marin disects the Cook County Republican Chair race,

In the end, does any of this really matter?

Chicago Ald. Brian Doherty (41st) is the lone Republican on the City Council. What does the Cook County GOP do for him? “Not too much … it’s completely ineffective,” he claims. Still, he says, he’ll vote for Murphy over Peraica because he thinks she’s trying hard.

Which takes us back to Mike Feeley, who won’t be voting for Murphy. Like Doherty, Feeley is one of 80 Republican committeemen from Chicago and the suburbs who will pick the next chair of the Cook County GOP later this month.

Despite the indictment that hangs over his head, Feeley says he still takes his role as Republican committeeman seriously. He says in the last couple of days he has been pressured by unwanted calls from Murphy, her supporters and people he believes are close to Vrdolyak. He has told them to go away and leave him alone. He has decided to vote for Peraica. In doing so, he says what everybody seems to say about the Cook County Republican Party. “There’s nothing they can do for me.”

UPDATE: Mike reports in comments that Doherty can’t actually vote in the election since he is not Committeeman–Mike McCauliffe is. I’m guessing Dougherty said something to the effect that he was supporting Murphy and Marin mistook that as voting for him.

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Tweedy in Rehab

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I’m always meaning to write on more than my obsession with politics, but it never seems to happen

But it looks like the new Wilco album will be delayed to accomodate Jeff Tweedy’s stint in rehab. While I’m disappointed about the delay, best to Jeff on getting better. And, ummm, I have it and haven’t had a chance to listen, though I will buy a copy right away.

Tweedy is a Southern Illinois native raised in Belleville along with his former bandmate in Uncle Tupelo, Jay Farrar. Farrar is now a resident of south Saint Louis.

You too can listen to a stream of the new album at Wilcoweb

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