Archive for June, 2005
Posted in June 30th, 2005
Cegelis posts on her fundraising over at Kos Generally she makes some good points. I’d say one quibble is that if you have a broad donor base, the larger money should follow–and in fact, that is what Christine is trying to do is show she can raise money and do it well. From there, money […]
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Posted in June 30th, 2005
Sigh, Rich got there first, but this was a beautiful bit on The Blagorgeous response to questions about the PWS contract Gov. Rod Blagojevich refused to answer questions Wednesday about half a million dollars in state contracts that went to a firm with family connections to the Illinois Department of Transportation. Meeting with reporters at […]
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Posted in June 30th, 2005
Daley gave an interview with Novakula: The Dark Prince off the record giving Novak an excuse to avoid most substance and rail against Democrats but two things come through at the end. The first, is where Daley is clueless–he complains Dems don’t have an energy plan and are simply obstructing which ignores both plans to […]
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Posted in June 30th, 2005
Rich has the Republicans Downleft has the Democrats I’m deeply disappointed that Ron Gidwitz is falling behind. It appears that Evergreen Terrace residents do have internet access.
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Posted in June 30th, 2005
The Kaiser Foundation just released a poll on one of the most pressing state policy issues–Medicaid. The results are stunning in that the level of support for the program is higher than I would have expected, but then again, many, many people interact with the program on some level: Washington, DC– Perhaps surprisingly given years […]
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Posted in June 30th, 2005
In the Hill–outward support hasn’t changed with Crowley at 42, Schakowsky at 38 and Larson at 17. BTW, what up with the new Schakowsky blog?
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Posted in June 30th, 2005
Long time Trib Sports Correspondent Bonnie DeSimone is writing for the Boston Globe so it looks like Philip Hersh is anchoring the Trib coverage with a good helping of AP coverage. Mainly I’m disappointed because I think DeSimone gave some fo the best feel to cycling coverage in big newspapers, but with Google news alerts, […]
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Posted in June 30th, 2005
Should ArchPundit the blog be killed with ArchPundt: Snarkiness Personified the Magazine start? Check out Atrios if you don’t get the reference. (I’ll be doing more open threads as well) And answer me why Maxxim gets the media exemption and not me.
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Posted in June 30th, 2005
The new Democratic National Committee web site is up and running and while there are some kinks to work out, it’s designed to increase interactivity. There’s a midwest blog I’ll link to soon. They’ve renamed the blog from Kickin’ Ass which I believe is a mistake, but hey. Finally, they are advertising a new program […]
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Posted in June 30th, 2005
So go drop by his web site and check it out–he’s running in IL-11 against El Geraldo Weller.
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Posted in June 30th, 2005
Ruben Zamora will make another run of it in the 14th CD against Hastert. Apparently this was back in May that he announced.
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Posted in June 30th, 2005
The District I grew up in–except then it was Ed Madigan before hsi rather unillustrious period as Secretary of Ag. Gill, 45, said Thursday he is actively raising money in hopes of tripling the $101,000 he raised in his first bid against Johnson. Federal election reports show Gill with $7,500 in the bank, but he […]
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Posted in June 30th, 2005
The eternally breathless and utterly silly Peggy Noonan attacks Obama’s column on Lincoln What’s wrong with them? That’s what I’m thinking more and more as I watch the news from Washington. A few weeks ago it was the senators who announced the judicial compromise. There is nothing wrong with compromise and nothing wrong with announcements, […]
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Posted in June 30th, 2005
You don’t pay $200,00 for a baseless witchhunt. There’s a lot of ways to spin a campaign finance violation such as saying the law is so technical the campaign made unintentional errors and coordination occurred. Saying it’s baseless at that level just produces guffaws.
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Posted in June 30th, 2005
He was handicapping the race for the GOP Gubernatorial, not endorsing Topinka.
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