Call It A Comeback
Does anyone know any other candidates who roll out a 27 page manifesto for delivery at their announcement for office?
It’s kinda big font, but it’s still pretty amazing.
Read it all here
Ironically, it has that sort of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez style to it.
“Undersecretary of State…
Instant Classic!
Kane County Republican Party Chairman Denny Wiggins is now a paid consultant for State Senator Chris Lauzen’s congressional campaign. Hmmm! The party chairman working for one candidate in an open primary? Sounds kind of like one of my kids offering me 50 bucks to love them more than the other.
Ah! But this is the same Denny Wiggins we’ve already discussed. You see, Mr. Wiggins is not only our Republican chairman, but the director of government affairs for the Home Builders Association of Greater Fox Valley. Mr. Wiggins tried to tell me it wasn’t a conflict of interest for someone in his position to lobby our County Board on behalf of home builders.
Our good chairman remains undaunted and unclear on the concept of a conflict of interest. He said, “Because I’m the party chairman, I’m not supposed to support anyone?” Stunned into speechlessness by that remark, I’ll just quote Geneva mayor and congressional candidate Kevin Burns, “I trust Mr. Wiggins will do the right thing and step down as party chair. After all, he cannot serve two masters.”
So first Wiggins said he would quit the chairmanship. Then he said he would “consider” resigning if a majority of the GOP Executive Committee asked him to step down. Then he asked for a leave of absence. When the committee voted 5-3 for his resignation, Wiggins said he was “leaning toward stepping down.”
Apparently three executive committee members don’t understand the meaning of “appearance of impropriety.”
Then Wiggins said this, “I wouldn’t step down unless somebody stepped up to the plate that I felt didn’t have a personal agenda, somebody that I felt strongly that they had the best interest of the party at heart.”
“The Illinois Republican machine … does not like Chris Lauzen,” Russell said. “The [unknown] candidate … would have the [Hastert] machine influence.”
Russell and Green speculated that the entry of a Hastert-picked candidate will set up an eventual Lauzen victory by siphoning off Oberweis supporters and encouraging typically conservative primary voters to organize around Lauzen.
But Lauzen said he sees his formula for victory in the primary as simple, and he said the contest involves two issues: “performance versus promises and … I win campaigns.”
Still, Lauzen acknowledges that his biggest asset going into the primary — his far-right base of conservative diehards — could prove problematic in a general election with Foster, when heavy swing-voter turnout is expected in 2008 presidential election.
“Primaries are easy because people generally agree with you,” Lauzen said. “General elections: you need all the people you can get.”
So he’s too extreme. Let’s get that out of the way now. Worse, he’s thin skinned and whines non-stop about every little slight such as whether he is a CPA or not. He was nutty enough to sue to CHANGE HIS NAME to Chris Lauzen, CPA because a political opponent questioned his credentials It was denied.
Not to be outdone, the Oberweis campaign has the crack team that brought Keyes in running his campaign with this fine release about a Lauzen hire:
LAUZEN BUYS COUNTY CHAIRMAN; OBERWEIS CAMP CALLS FOR RESIGNATION
(AURORA, October 30) — Oberweis for Congress spokesman Bill Pascoe — reacting to news that Kane County GOP Chairman Denny Wiggins has accepted a paid position with State Sen. Chris Lauzen’s campaign — called on Wiggins to abide by the majority vote of the Kane County GOP Executive Committee last night and resign his position immediately.“Republican County Chairmen shouldn’t be serving as paid staff on any campaign at any level,” said Pascoe. “I don’t know which is worse — that Denny Wiggins apparently sold himself to the highest bidder, or that Chris Lauzen decided to buy Wiggins’ ‘services.’
“What this whole episode says about Denny Wiggins is clear: given that he asked Jim Oberweis for a payment of $10,000 per month — a payment Jim refused to make, believing it just wasn’t the right thing to do — and then shopped his services to Chris Lauzen after telling Jim how little respect he had for Lauzen and Lauzen’s record, what this says is simply that Denny Wiggins is a man whose support can be bought.
“What this episode says about Chris Lauzen, though, is worse — it says that Lauzen has been in Springfield too long. Fifteen years in the midst of the George Ryan-Rod Blagojevich mindset has apparently infected Chris, and led him to buy into the notion that it’s appropriate to buy people off. ‘Put them on the payroll’ is the battle cry of the Establishment Insiders, and that’s trouble — because when the Insiders get together in their back rooms to scratch each other’s backs, it’s always the taxpayers who get stuck with the bill.
“Denny Wiggins should immediately step down from his position as Chairman of the Kane County GOP. A leave of absence is not enough — if he maintains his position as Chairman, whether on leave or not, he will maintain undue influence over the organization and its key players. That would deny the Republican voters of Kane County their right to a free and fair election.
“In order to remove even the appearance of impropriety, Wiggins must resign immediately,” Pascoe concluded.
Pascoe, Oberweis, Lauzen, Jack Roeser, and Zahm.
Pass me the popcorn.
While Iraq has 3 basic ethnic/religious groups, Iran has exponentially more.
Little Aaron Strangelove apparently doesn’t understand that about 9 in 10 Iranians are Shia. And while there are some ethnic variations within the country, it’s not something that is anything like in Iraq. Most of the ethnic variations have common roots in Persian culture.
Really, this guy served on a school board?
Follow this closely. We declared war on Japan on December 8, 1941. Germany then declared war on the United States and December 11, 1941. We then declared war on Germany later in the day on December 11, 1941.
But it gets better–Iraq would eventually have been a threat according to Aaron Strangelove, so all is good that we attacked them before they eventually decided to start a nuclear program again.
I understand the argument that we are stuck there so we have to try and win. But to argue it was the right thing because eventually Iraq may have resumed a nuclear program again and so the entire idea was good is batshit crazy.
By this standard, Ronald Reagan would have had to invade:
All, but Pakistan are now nuclear free due to the NPT framework. Destroy that, and little Aaron Strangelove is right, you will have to conduct a lot of invasions to keep nuclear weapons from proliferating.
I shit you not. We need to lecture the PRD about political and economic reform including the first non-PRI President of Mexico since 1920 about the need for economic and political reform in Mexico. Fox is the guy who singlehandedly pulled off significant structural reform in the Mexican economy while also being the first President to avoid a major currency devaluation in a couple decades.
Aaron Schock is going to lecture that guy and the two Presidents following him. This is exactly the kind of arrogance that complicates our relationships throughout Central and South America.
It helps to know just a little bit of history before shooting one’s mouth off.
As an assistant Cook County State’s Attorney, I have spent the last 10 years ensuring that people are equally protected under the law. I believe it is one of the bedrock principles of our country that every American is entitled to be treated fairly regardless of their age, gender, race, national origin or religion. The Employee Non-Discrimination Act (HR 3685), or ENDA, simply makes it illegal to discriminate against any American in the workplace because of his or her sexual orientation.
No American should be subject to employment discrimination or have their right to work revoked because of sexual orientation.
Congress has a responsibility to ban any form of discrimination in the workplace in order to protect the rights of all workers against the biases of their employers.
Given the opportunity, I would have proudly voted in favor of ENDA as the House approved it yesterday.
ENDA is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation. Its approval tells millions of gay and lesbian Americans that they entitled to the same employment protections as everyone else and that they do not need to live in fear of losing their jobs due to their sexual orientation.
Unfortunately, the Congressman from Illinois’ 3rd District doesn’t believe all Americans are entitled to the rights already granted to them by our state government.
As he has many times in the past, Congressman Dan Lipinski sided with President Bush and the Republicans again yesterday and voted against ENDA. He was the only Democrat in the Illinois delegation to vote against the proposal.
In fact – other than the seven representatives who voted against ENDA on the grounds that it didn’t go far enough – Lipinski was the only northern Democrat, and just one of 18 Democrats overall, to oppose the bill.
While Illinois is one of 30 states that already has an “ENDA” law in place at the state level, Lipinski demonstrated that he does not believe that all Americans are entitled to equal protection under the law and that employment discrimination has no place in our society.
Every American has the right to expect to be treated equally. It is appalling that a Democratic representative from Illinois fails to uphold that fundamental principle.
“While I have offered innovative ideas based completely on President Reagan’s successful strategy to end the Cold War, my opponents are operating cynical campaigns of being quick to attack while offering no substance on the issues what-so-ever themselves,” said Schock. “The people are tired of cynical candidates who run for office while avoiding dealing with our nation’s challenges while problems get worse. Our country needs leaders who are willing to address problems instead of waiting until they become a crisis.”
As I mentioned before, the policy he advocates is directly contradicted by the policy of the Reagan administration. Reagan sought to strengthen the NPT framework and worked towards moving South American nations away from developing nuclear weapons. To do that , he didn’t threaten China, he used diplomacy.
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