Archive for July, 2010
Posted in July 26th, 2010
Michael Kinsley defined a gaffe in politics as being “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.” Bob Dold just made a gaffe on Facebook: This is especially interesting since Dold is running as a ‘moderate’ while he keeps getting endorsed by nutters on the right like the Eagle Forum. From a […]
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Posted in July 23rd, 2010
My first reaction to the Mark Kirk story in today’s Tribune is that most of this is an entirely different story than the military and teaching issues. Memory is a very unstable human characteristic. Memories tend to change when accessed and so stories tend to change over time as you recall them and try and […]
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Posted in July 21st, 2010
He probably believes this even.
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Posted in July 21st, 2010
The State Police swept his office for bugs the day before Blagojevich’s arrest. Now, Rob (the brother) says he didn’t order it and was unaware of Rod ordering it, but the State Police don’t randomly sweep the Governor’s Campaign office for bugs without an order. After the news about Wyma came out, Robert testifies, […]
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Posted in July 21st, 2010
Hysterical from Breitbart: You tell me as a reporter how CNN put on a person today who purported to be the farmer’s wife? What did you do to find out whether or not that was the actual farmer’s wife? I mean, if you’re going to accuse me of a falsehood, tell me where you’ve confirmed […]
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Posted in July 21st, 2010
Pat Quinn learns to fundraise. Between his two accounts he has just under $2.3 million on hand which puts him at the same COH as Brady. I honestly thought he’d completely blow this fundraising cycle, but apparently he’s becoming a politician. Good for him and good for the state.
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Posted in July 21st, 2010
Daniel Biss has $244,000 on hand for his effort to win the 17th State Rep District. His opponent had a good haul and has $41,000 On top of it Daniel only got a little bit of help with one staffer and some software from the State Party. That means this is all raised on his […]
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Posted in July 15th, 2010
Mike Wilson really channels Bill Brady better than Bill Brady. It’s a new Bill Brady folk commercial parody and it’s great.
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Posted in July 15th, 2010
I can’t avoid it since it involves both reducing subsidies on oil and gas subsidies and improving infrastructure… Giannoulias’ National Infrastructure Fund would establish an independent board comprised of urban planners, economists, engineers, geologists and other experts in the field. This board would prioritize the nation’s large-scale infrastructure needs based on their national and […]
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Posted in July 15th, 2010
From the campaign: DEERFIELD, IL – In another clear show of support from Illinois voters, Democratic Congressional Candidate Dan Seals today announced a consecutive strong fundraising quarter in the race for the open seat in Illinois’ 10th District. In the second quarter FEC reporting period that closed on June 30, Seals received $556,156 in […]
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Posted in July 15th, 2010
Reports raising $750,000 in the relatively short time he’s been in the race. While Illinois only reports twice a year right now, Claypool has only been in the race for about 3 months so this is especially amazing.
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Posted in July 15th, 2010
Alexi’s numbers are awful. There’s not much else to say, other than he’s put the call time in from what I understand and some of those haggard pictures of him from the spring are from long days of fundraising and lots of nos. It should pick up and apparently has been lately, but the reality […]
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Posted in July 15th, 2010
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYdVXDYnV-c[/youtube] When Jennifer became pregnant with the twins, we had a minor scare that it was a molar pregnancy because one of the doctors made a mistake trying to do a quickie ultrasound. He was incredibly apologetic, and truly a great doctor so all was forgiven especially since we were then in shock that we […]
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Posted in July 14th, 2010
Generalissimo Francisco Franco George Steinbrenner is still dead.
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Posted in July 14th, 2010
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ynzOehRMQs[/youtube] Personal PAC, Planned Parenthood, and the Democratic Governor’s Association is filling up the inbox. This commercial is quite good. As the Dad of twin daughters, this tugged at me more than most political ads do–given I’m pretty jaded about such things. These things do matter. And as much of a doofus as Pat […]
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