Archive for April, 2008
Posted in April 25th, 2008
Obama cannot role out a 50 State Strategy for the General Election. That said, this is a good first step: CHICAGO, IL—Senator Barack Obama’s campaign today announced the kickoff of Vote for Change, an unprecedented 50-state voter registration and mobilization drive. The campaign will work with grassroots volunteers and partner with local organizations to register […]
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Posted in April 25th, 2008
The press is in some alternate world that makes it sound like Clinton has a serious chance at the nomination. Funny enough, Democratic and Republican party insiders are far more realistic (subscription required) Q: Who is most likely to capture the Democratic presidential nomination? Democrats (88 votes) Now 3/8/08 Hillary Rodham Clinton 17 percent 46 […]
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Posted in April 25th, 2008
Here for 50 years and the bureaucracy cannot finish her paperwork in a year. Via Illinois Coaltion for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and Progress Illinois According to Chicago Public Radio, CIS received a record 1.4 million naturalization applications nationwide last year, many of which arrived before fees rose dramatically in August. In fact, the agency […]
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Posted in April 25th, 2008
Rich reports on a report to him that Boehner said Oberweis should get out of the race. I’m told House Republican Leader John Boehner said at a recent event that he wants Oberweis out of the race. Boehner’s campaign office did not return a call asking for comment. I’m not sure Oberweis will ever drop […]
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Posted in April 25th, 2008
I’m starting to like Steve Sauerberg even if I’ll never endorse him. The Illinois Review continues its attacks on his campaign staffer because the staffer is gay. Mr. Barron’s history as the former National Political Director of Log Cabin Republicans concerned us a few weeks ago, and we wrote about it on Illinois Review. Dr. […]
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Posted in April 24th, 2008
Eugene Pincham passed while I was busy with that pesky day job. How sad
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Posted in April 24th, 2008
Article: “We get in there, Elia sees us, and he says: ‘Hi fellas, come on in,’ ” recalled Les Grobstein. “He seemed very calm.” Grobstein, the omnipresent Chicago radio reporter with a memory to rival “Rain Man”, said he and three writers—the Tribune’s Robert Markus, the Sun-Times’ Joel Bierig and the Daily Herald’s Don Friske—were […]
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Posted in April 24th, 2008
When you write in to talk about a campaign you work on from the computers at that campaign, you want to identify yourself as being from the campaign. In general, I protect privacy pretty well on here, but I don’t like campaigns hiding behind anonymity when posting. If it’s unrelated to your race or something, […]
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Posted in April 24th, 2008
Via OneMan Wow, some administrator needs to get a life 1) It was funny 2) No one was hurt 3) There was no danger 4) There was nothing unwholesome about it 5) There was no significant disruption The horrors.
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Posted in April 24th, 2008
Blagojevich quotes Hank Williams Two House Democrats said discussions on a possible impeachment resolution targeting Blagojevich accelerated after Tuesday’s disclosure by Ali Ata, whom the governor appointed to a $127,000-a-year post running the Illinois Finance Authority. In his surprise guilty plea to federal corruption charges, Ata said he gave two $25,000 campaign contributions to the […]
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Posted in April 24th, 2008
John Fritchey citing KRS One on violence. Not a natural pairing.
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Posted in April 24th, 2008
Ozinga won’t trip the Millionaire’s amendment. One presumes that the RNCC is crying as they have no money and one of their recruited self funders just announced he won’t self fund. Oh, and he wants to stay in Iraq for as long as it takes to have a functioning Iraqi state. That isn’t even working […]
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Posted in April 24th, 2008
Primary campaigns go on regardless of how utterly impossible the math is….
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Posted in April 23rd, 2008
Don’t forget to visit the Poodle
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Posted in April 23rd, 2008
Via the UniBomber Quinn: QUINN: To be running away and not fully engaging the people of Illinois, who are the voters, the taxpayers, the people who we are accountable to, I don’t think that’s the right way to go. I think Governor Blagojevich should speak to the public and answer questions about anything and […]
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