Archive for February, 2009
Posted in February 26th, 2009
Via Rich * Delmarie Cobb, Burris’ media adviser who more than hinted to Carol Marin this week that she intends to play the race card, sent a pretty frank letter to Ald. Freddrenna Lyle which was then posted on a local blog… In true David Axelrod style, all week, white progressive Democratic elected officials have […]
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Posted in February 26th, 2009
Awesome: Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley has sent out nearly 10 mail pieces showing Commissioner Quigley standing next to Commissioner Forest Claypool slamming Cook County Board President Todd Stroger. The Minister of Propaganda for Germany in World War II, said “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to […]
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Posted in February 25th, 2009
Someone’s having fun at the Pantagraph.
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Posted in February 25th, 2009
What a place to have it. Actually I believe I’ll be in Normal that weekend and tentatively plan on attending. If it is the sort of thing to interest you, check it out.
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Posted in February 24th, 2009
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqkMfToY9Pk[/youtube] The greatest crisis this nation has ever seen. The number of references to everyone else going made is somewhat telling.
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Posted in February 24th, 2009
Roland tells Durbin he won’t resign after Durbin asks him to. Even better, Roland isn’t sure if he’s running for reelection. The gift that keeps on giving.
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Posted in February 23rd, 2009
For those in the Saint Louis Metro region it’s 88.1 FM. For others listen in at kdhx.org
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Posted in February 23rd, 2009
Entirely due to user error so while I’m slow at getting back to people, it’s even more true than normal if you used my gmail account. I am now getting that e-mail again.
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Posted in February 23rd, 2009
Progress Illinois is tracking the amounts here The biggest surprise is O’Connor who is raising next to nothing. Apparently hoping Daley or Rahm would win the race for him isn’t working out too well. As I told you before the reports were released, Fritchey has done extremely well since January 5th and now has almost […]
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Posted in February 23rd, 2009
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYDJ_z7TKk8[/youtube] You can tell everyone is going for name recognition in this one–Quigley is like every 5th word or so. From the e-mail with the ad touting it: The fact is our ground game has given us the momentum going into the final week. We have contacted 70,378 voters — well on our way to […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2009
From Talking Points Memo: Roland Burris is on TV givinga speech defending himself against allegations he lied about his role in being solicited and then trying to help raise money for Rod Blagojevich to help get the senate seat. And it’s basically identical to a series of speeches Blago himself gave when he was swirling […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2009
Really? No per diem is what Roland is concerned about?
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Posted in February 18th, 2009
More like this please: I’m troubled by [Burris’ evolving explanations] because he either has a tremendous lack of memory or he wasn’t being forthright with the committee,” Hare said, referring to the state House Impeachment Committee. “This was pay-to-play with the former governor … I’m done with this whole Blagojevich thing.” Burris “has been a […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2009
We are not hearing that I should resign. Quite to the contrary, we keep hearing from people all over this nation, all over this state that say, “Roland, you cannot step down You are the best thing to happen to Illinois and the US Senate ever.” We are committed to doing Illinois’ work in the […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2009
While everyone seems to have different takes on this race, I have to say that anyone who thinks they are sure where this all stands is overconfident, and don’t even get me started on Nate Silver’s piece–love Nate’s work, but that oversimplifies this race a bit too much. The biggest problem with a special election […]
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