Archive for August, 2005
Posted in August 23rd, 2005
As was pointed out to me, you have to remember the Fair on Governor’s Day and Republican Day is essentially a Christmas Party. You hang out, you drink beer, and you may talk politics, but it’s ultimately a Christmas Party so don’t intrude on that. Of the things to note, there is no appetite for […]
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Posted in August 22nd, 2005
Sorry about that–Wednesday at the Fair (don’t ask about Thursday) and then to Bloomington for the weekend with family including an A La Baldini For those I was supposed to meet after the fair–drop me a line for a mildly funny story. Otherwise consider this an open thread for whatever until this evening when I’ll […]
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Posted in August 17th, 2005
For Wednesday and Thursday–will have pics, but not sure if I’ll have a chance to update.
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Posted in August 17th, 2005
Is the anger and energy to challenge Melissa Bean when there is a perfectly good target for the primary in a safe Democratic Seat: Dan Lipinski. John Sullivan is running against him and will be on Public Affairs What I don’t get about the anger towards Lipinski and the anger that has faded towards Lipinski […]
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Posted in August 17th, 2005
Below is a picture of the postcard that Jim Leach and I both received. It indicates it is from the Brady campaign, but the Brady campaign denies sending it and there is no reason to not believe that denial. What I’m curious about is who else received the card? I received it in St. Louis. […]
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Posted in August 17th, 2005
He thinks that testicularvirility.com should be the new campaign web site for Blagojevich. Of course, as I noted previously, that address was registered on an anonymous service on May 17th. That was within 48 hours of the pronouncement of manhood. There are two likely candidates for the domain name grab with me being third in […]
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Posted in August 16th, 2005
I know that’s been an unpopular thing to say in some online sites lately, but I’m quite excited by a reinvigorated DCCC. During the 2004 cycle I got to know the DCCC web team relatively well. Jesse Lee, Steve Olson and Peter who was then overseeing the initial effort. There was a consistent tension between […]
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Posted in August 16th, 2005
Each will soon be blogrolled, but I wanted to point them out- The Blogometer which has mentioned me a few times is the National Journal’s sampling of the day in the blogosphere and is available without the NJ subscription. It’s top rate. Also, Danny Glover is writing the Beltway Blogroll. It is also available to […]
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Posted in August 16th, 2005
Uhhh…why would he make a run against Jesse White? (video there too) I know he sees it as the path to the Governor’s Mansion, but only if you win and I don’t see how you do that against White. UPDATE: Does that mean Judy isn’t running for Governor? Hmmm…
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Posted in August 16th, 2005
IL Pundit’s back and he beat me to the punch on explaining a key reason Madigan and Jones got behind Blagojevich and will follow-up on that with actual support. Not only did Edgar sweep Republicans into office, he was a giant pain in the ass to Mike Madigan for 8 years. A Republican sweep like […]
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Posted in August 16th, 2005
Stroger announced a projected budget deficit of $186 Million for the next fiscal year. The expected budget gap remains about what the county’s finance team estimated in February. Escalating payroll costs are the driving factor. In addition, Medicaid funding is expected to decline as the federal government follows through on an expected reduction in revenue […]
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Posted in August 16th, 2005
Ahhhhh….it was nice to see that Republicans aren’t the only ones to set up a nice circular firing squad when Rich mentioned he might post some suggestions. The first rule of Illinois Democratic politics is that if you want to get something done, don’t attack The Speaker’s people. You can cajole, maybe make some jokes, […]
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Posted in August 15th, 2005
I’m a bit behind the curve on County issues, but I just got my hands on Forrest Claypool’s recent report on Personnel Trends for the County. The preface sets up the report well Since December of 2002, when there first emerged a strong block of reform-minded commissioners on the Cook County Board, there has been […]
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Posted in August 14th, 2005
I’m not terribly comfortable saying Cindy Sheehan should get an automatic meeting with the President, but I also don’t think one has to be angry with her for protesting the President. Jim Leach does a good job making the point about the loud conservative response to Sheehan Let’s compare and contrast the treatment of this […]
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Posted in August 14th, 2005
I received it at my home address so I’m wondering if it was a mailing targeted towards bloggers–if you received it as well drop me a note or mention it in comments. Brady claims it is not from him. What is interesting is often when someone does this sort of thing they still send it […]
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