Archive for September, 2005
Posted in September 27th, 2005
I had wondered where this bit in Washington Whispers had come from: Is Washington already bored with new Senate star Barack Obama ? In his two Sunday talk show appearances this month, the programs finished dead last in the all important Washington market. “He’s Sunday poison,” says a TV exec. But Obama’s office says national […]
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Posted in September 26th, 2005
Somehow this slipped through the cracks, but Carl is being sued for defamation. Details here Someone threatening to sue a blogger is nothing new, someone actually bothering with doing it is. Most of the suit is bogus. Bill Welch’s privacy is largely a non-issue given his brother is a public official. That his brother voted […]
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Posted in September 26th, 2005
Christine Cegelis’ ads are cracking me up and using the medium quite well. As always visit all of the sponsors–I’m happy to endorse every one of the ads currently up as worth visiting (I’m neutral for now in the 6th CD primary (and owe one candidate a call), but funny ads get noticed).
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Posted in September 26th, 2005
John Fritchey has a poll up for the County President race and Jeff Berkowitz (not the one outed today–google it, I’m not linking) has an interview with Claypool on Public Affairs.
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Posted in September 26th, 2005
Ahem, any sitting or former Governor’s have a standing invitation to call. Giangreco and Curry don’t count–not that I don’t appreciate them commenting. (Okay, so anyone is welcome to call the voice mail–number is on the left and is working last I checked)
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Posted in September 26th, 2005
It’s back. I figure it’s time to start up–last time was too early, but now we have regular news to run this as a weekly feature. So drop your comments down below or in e-mail and I’ll be placing the competitors in my own personal opinionated order–I do take your comments into consideration though. Obviously […]
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Posted in September 26th, 2005
First, for those not familiar with it, GOPILLINOIS is a site run by Dave Diersen, a Republican activist from Wheaton. The site collects some of the more important articles related to state politics–especially Republican politics in Illinois. Rich Miller has pointed it out before. It was originally done in an e-mail, but he now posts […]
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Posted in September 26th, 2005
Who knew if you read the blogs? Eric Krol let’s everyone know what the average person actually cares about. Yeah, one of my pet issues is the utter misunderstanding of many activists when it comes to the average person’s interest in their pet causes. Generally, they don’t give a damn. What do they care about? […]
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Posted in September 26th, 2005
Rich Miller and IlliniPundit asked all sorts of good questions concerning the Director of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. What’s telling is that after Katrina with many emergency management issues being discussed, Burke wasn’t front and center, Michael Chamness was the key contact. Aaron Chambers interviewed him for an article on evacuations. Who was Chamness? […]
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Posted in September 26th, 2005
I don’t know if most of the readers have figured it out yet, but I’m in a rare state of being undecided in a Governor’s race. If Edgar or Judy were to be the nominee I’d seriously consider endorsing them, though to make it entirely clear, that isn’t for sure. As I’ve described before there […]
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Posted in September 26th, 2005
That’s intriguing. The thing about a Meeks candidacy is how it alters the landscape regarding black voters. The assumption, pre-big scandals (when hasn’t there been a little scandal in Chicago) was that part of the reason Daley was invulnerable was a weird position he staked out where he occupied a middle space ideologically. The white […]
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Posted in September 22nd, 2005
September 20, 2005 Dear Friends:? I’m writing to ask for your help in obtaining the?16,000 signatures necessary to place David’s name on the ballot for the March Primary election. As a long-time friend of David’s, you know that he has been a steady, consistent voice for progressive politics within the Democratic Party.? As Cook County […]
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Posted in September 22nd, 2005
On Skoien Gary Skoien, the Cook County Republican chairman, is gamely trying to rebuild his moribund party, but, to use a literary allusion, he’s sort of like Captain Ahab in relentless pursuit of Moby Dick; however, instead of harpooning the legendary “White Whale,” he’s shooting himself in the foot and tossing his sailors overboard. On […]
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Posted in September 22nd, 2005
From Greg Blankenship both at the Spectator and on the Illinois Policy Institute’s blog. For the record, I conceived of my post when I thought Edgar was just thinking about running–I’m still not as convinced as many that he will, but think the chances have gone up significantly in the last couple weeks while I’ve […]
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Posted in September 22nd, 2005
I’ve been particularly struck by the devastation in the largely forgotten areas surrounding New Orleans and St. Bernard in particular. I received an update on the health situation there yesterday in my e-mail Rita is on the way and we are already feeling the effects here. ? We have been ?notified that mutual aid teams, […]
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