Archive for October, 2004
Posted in October 31st, 2004
Why does Bush want Carl Officer’s support? And why would the Leader treat this as a good thing. Pat Gauen recounted the more colorful moments of Carl’s career in the PD in 2003: My personal favorite was the day he gathered the press to announce that he was filing a federal suit to stop Gov. […]
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Posted in October 31st, 2004
Many readers know I have little use for Lee Newcom, former McLean County Board Member until Tari Renner beat him. Newcom was the executive director of the Illinois Christian Coalition, but before that, had a bad habbit of telling young Republicans to pull dirty tricks because they weren’t accountable. Unethical is only where I can […]
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Posted in October 31st, 2004
Daily Herald: Keyes said bin Laden’s message is a “clear indication that we can’t afford to elect John Kerry or put Barack Obama” in the Senate. Yeah, they might catch him. Bastards.
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Posted in October 31st, 2004
Via Capitol Fax Lauzen has a tiff in a he said he said with a football coach. Hard to say what happened, but to defend the football coach if this did happen as he says, parental reactions in sporting events are over the top quite often. The only strange thing about the agreed upon bit […]
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Posted in October 31st, 2004
Good analysis of the Coulson and Slone races.
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Posted in October 31st, 2004
Okay, here are mine since I won’t have time tomorrow. Nationally Bush 48 Kerry 50 (just under, but close) Electoral College I have it between 273 for Kerry all the way up to a possibility of 347 for Kerry I’ll settle for 311 Kerry based on my reading of the most recent polls Illinois Senate: […]
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Posted in October 31st, 2004
Okay, I owe Eric an apology, I’ve been running behind two two year olds and under the weathe and on top of it the time change didn’t sit well with them, but he is running his Blog Bowl II BLOG BOWL II I’ve invited a number of bloggers who regularly meditate upon the Illinois political […]
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Posted in October 31st, 2004
“I just voted early in Wheatland Township, Will County. Clerk said that abentee voters are up four times than normal.” This jives with everything I’m hearing. It’s going to be a record turnout.
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Posted in October 31st, 2004
About those polls… Keyes also said he doesn’t believe polls that show Obama far ahead in Tuesday’s election for the seat now held by U.S. Sen. Peter Fitzgerald. “As far as I know, for instance, those polls are still showing a majority of pro-life people voting for Barack Obama,” Keyes told reporters at Sangamon County […]
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Posted in October 29th, 2004
Mr. Crane might be a bit out of touch: Congressman Phil Crane’s eyes dart around the packed Metra train as reporters sit nearby, waiting to discuss his railroad expansion plan. He leans forward, then takes a stub of paper off the back of the bench in front of him. He turns it over in his […]
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Posted in October 29th, 2004
At Illinois for Kerry. I had tried to post this a few days ago and couldn’t get into the site, but if you can help–do.
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Posted in October 29th, 2004
There won’t be many changes, but expect to see some Missouri news mixed in to make updating easier. For Missouri readers, the category archive will be Missouri and I’ll leave a link here in a bit to access it and filter out the national and Illinois issues. That will start tomorrow. The big news–I’ll be […]
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Posted in October 29th, 2004
After a small detour of checking in Springfield the Keyes mail bomb scare led me to the Police Department of Stafford, Texas–a Houston Suburb where Keyes contribution processing is done. Detective Veratto was very helpful and filled in the details. This was the first call to the police department, so the human waste story may […]
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Posted in October 29th, 2004
from comments: I was outside the event for the pre-debate rally. One of the Keyes supporters claimed “There was a special place in Hell for people like me.” (Charming!) So I asked here to clarify. “God’s retribution is swift,” she replied. So I decided to push the process along: I held up my umbrella to […]
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Posted in October 29th, 2004
Heh. According to rumors on the Leader Looper board. About as trustworthy as claims there was a fake bomb sent to the Keyes campaign.
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