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1994 News Article on Edgar

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Sound familiar?

Sun-Times August 1, 1994

HEADLINE: Radio Ads Back New Party

BODY:
With just a week left to file third-party ballot petitions, a newly formed conservative group is airing radio commercials designed to support the Term Limits & Tax Limits Party.

The group, Illinois Pro-Family Voters, said in a statement that Gov. Edgar and his Democratic challenger, Dawn Clark Netsch, hold “the same liberal positions on gays, gambling and abortion.”

Monty Johnson, the group’s spokesman, said, “Unless Steve Baer enters the race, we’re all being held hostage by liberals like Edgar and Netsch.”

Baer, a Chicago businessman, challenged Edgar in the 1990 Republican primary. His name heads a ticket on petitions being circulated by the Term Limits & Tax Limits Party, though he has not announced his candidacy for governor.

For inclusion on the Nov. 8 ballot, petitions with at least 25,000 voters’ signatures must be submitted to the State Board of Elections by Aug. 8.

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The CMS Experiment Needs to Be Over

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However it needs to be sold, it isn’t working.

Summary of Findings:

Total this audit 22
Total last audit 24
Repeated from last audit 17

7 problems fixed. 5 created. 17 continue. If you can’t document the savings, what is the point?

CMS’ contract files lacked certain documentation for 6 of 10 contracts we tested. The maximum award amount for these 10 contracts totaled $270 million.

CMS evaluated vendor proposals using evaluation criteria that were not stated in the RFP.

In 6 contracts we reviewed, CMS did not timely execute the contracts. In one of the contracts reviewed, the vendor was allowed to initiate work on the project without a formal written agreement in place.

The Department?s process to monitor vendor expenses was inadequate. For some contracts, the Department paid expenses with little or no review. In 4 of 10 contracts tested, the Department received no detailed documentation to support reimbursement for expenses.

The Department did not consistently develop or formally approve changes to contracts.

The Department has not established a property management function to effectively manage occupancy costs and revenues.

The Department should further refine its billing process for savings initiatives. CMS billed $41 million for efficiency initiatives to State agencies during FY05, yet only collected $21 million from various State Agencies. The remaining balance was written off by the Department.

During the prior year, CMS did not maintain adequate documentation to support the amount of savings it attributes to efficiency initiatives. Also, savings goals stated in RFP’s, vendor proposals and/or contracts were not always realized or documented. In April 2005, the Department reported savings of $621 million. In October 2005, the Department issued a report citing a reduction of estimated savings to $529 million, however, this figure does not include any costs the Department incurred related to its initiatives, which are estimated to exceed $72 million.

CMS did not maintain time sheets for its employees as required by the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act.

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Gianoulis Deathwatch Day 1

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The title isn’t one wishing death on anyone, but is taken from Slate that often runs Deathwatches for doomed political candidates and officials.

Alexi is screwed and while his strategy in dealing with the issue is much better, the ball started rolling in the primary and it won’t be stopped now as the Trib clearly is working on a trickle of stories that just build on each other.

At this point he looks clueless or dishonest. I’m leaning towards clueless, but also Radogno.

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As Low As Keyes

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I’d say this is more than a bit of an overstatement for the Illinois Circular Firing Squad Team is in rare form as Biver suggests that Topinka might do worse than Keyes.

The column has a big error in that Axelrod’s firm AKP isn’t working for Blagojevich. Squier, Knapp & Dunn Communications is the ad firm doing Blagojevich’s ads–and so far they are pretty good. In fact, the first one during hte primary where he gave the line about being a little bit older and wiser reminded me of an Axelrod type of ad in its simplicity.

Amongst uber GOP conservative activists this race appears to be more about payback than anything else. The constant two front attacks Judy is facing has to be a nightmare though.

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Newcom Nukem

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Lee Newcom suggests Judy may not fired up the base:

A significant part of the Republican base has some serious questions about Judy Barr Topinka. If she fails to aggressively address those issues there will be no one to blame but her for depressing GOP turnout in November. In the primary I predicted her to be our weakest general election candidate of the 4 candidates. That calculation was based on 1) losing a significant part of the base GOP vote because of her liberalism and 2) her inability to articulate a message of leadership to the people of this state.

The one thing I can’t figure out is why Roeser is pushing the marriage amendment this cycle now that Topinka is on the ballot. Even though many of the voters may not like Topinka, they would probably vote for her rather than the Guv. Then again, it probably won’t be on the ballot so who cares.

The ultimate problem right now for Judy is that Judy is getting hit from the right and the left and she doesn’t have the money to keep up counter attacks for months. Unless she can figure out how to break the cycle she has a real problem.

Burning Down the House!

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IFI Needs Thousands of Insurance Signatures

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Because Rick Garcia is going to challenge the signatures according to Zorn

While the IFI insists they aren’t having problems, it’s pretty clear they are.

Anyone who had a clue knew the petitions would be challenged by gay rights and liberal groups. Then again, those with a clue pretty much excludes the merry band of obsessed homophobes at IFI. If they lose, Jack Roeser loses another one this year. Heh.

But what people really need to understand is this is an advisory opinion to make gay marriage not just illegal–which it already is, but really, really, illegal. IOW, it’s pointless.

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Watergate II

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Congress. Prostitution. Bribery. War Profiteering. Blog Gods Very, Very Happy.

Besides scrutinizing the prostitution scheme for evidence that might implicate contractor Brent Wilkes, investigators are focusing on whether any other members of Congress, or their staffs, may also have used the same free services, though it isn’t clear whether investigators have turned up anything to implicate others.

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Lying About Who You Are

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One reason I only allow one exception to when I’ll release IP information is that trolls tend to use multiple identities and so when there is an especially egregious case such as the clown who linked to a amputee dancing and called it the Duckwalk, I can publicly shame the individual.

If you use one pseudonym generally (you can change it–just don’t do it midthread or many times in the same day) or post anonymously, I protect your privacy absent a court order/warrent. And as long as you aren’t lying about who you are such as John Lott and Mary Rosh or a campaign pretending to be another campaign, I don’t care. So don’t feel nervous about what I’m about to do if you follow those very simple guidelines.

Let’s review IPs and Identities on ArchPundit revoling around an ID that also had an IP address the same as the person who posted the offensive link to the video

http://www.archpundit.com/archives/013331.html
Post: Since March 2nd
2006-03-08 16:20:01
IP Address of commentor: 66.73.162.11
Name: TrueDemocrat
E-mail: ilyayavitz@lycos.com
Published: 2006-03-10 06:43:56
Also from the same IP address in that post is an anonymous comment.
2006-03-09 04:34:29
66.73.162.11

http://www.archpundit.com/archives/013341.html
Pre-Primary: Cegelis D-IL-06
2006-03-10 10:36:39
66.73.162.11
TrueDemocratReal
2006-03-10 11:21:40

http://www.archpundit.com/archives/013343.html
Pre-Primary: Duckworth D-IL-06
2006-03-10 11:29:44
66.73.162.11
RealDemocratAuthentic
2006-03-10 16:25:05
2006-03-11 00:02:55

http://www.archpundit.com/archives/013476.html
It was a Mistake, but I’m Pretty Sure an Honest One
2006-03-24 15:12:41
66.73.160.70
TrueDemocratRealAuthentic
2006-03-25 02:41:52
2006-03-26 13:59:44

The list could go on if I listed the other identities connected to ilyayavitz@lycos.com or ilyayavitz@uchicago.edu or metonym@uchicago.edu under the different names of Formalist, ilyayavitz, Illinois06 and variations of TrueDemocratRealAuthentic and all of them are from a small subset of IP addresses (a total of 4) registered to SBC Chicago. In some cases, one comment would be posted under one name and the next comment would be from the same IP under a different name.

And then finally, the comment with the link to the video came from 66.73.160.70

The clowns name is and he is an

He’s used these multiple identities at other sites including MyDD and apparently was banned from there under a couple different identities. He’s also used them at Kos.

He’s a troll, a liar, and a scumbag and if I detect him again posting in comments, those will be deleted. He’s banned from using the site other than viewing it.

Quick Update: And despite his protestations of donating money to many Democratic candidates, he doesn’t show up in the FEC database. Meaning he may donate, but doesn’t break the $200 threshhold for reporting. Other Cegelis volunteers have no memory of him, though he did write a letter tot he editor.

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