Call It A Comeback
John Pavich is apparently doing well in online voting at both Mark Warner’s Forward Together PAC (link to the right in the blogads section) and the DFA contest so go vote for him if you haven’t already. Also David Loebsack, my college advisor is running for IA-02-especially in the Warner poll consider him since he won’t be competing with any Illinois candidates this round.
So says the Sunlight Foundation in a post here.
Hat tip to TPM Muckracker.
UPDATE:: Blogger Sweet, as she likes to refer to herself, has an update in today’s Suntimes. If the Trib did something, it’s taking me too damn long to navigate the stupid front page to find it. Will look later.
I find this funny.
Reader project, find out if that State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has contributions from Microsoft.
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We’ll start with, “people who should burn in hell for $200 Alex” and the Tribune update on a May story on someone stealing land owned by churches.
Bet Svengoli will be disturbed to learn this guy is from Berwyn.
And here’s to Larry feeling better.
Hopefully tomorrow. I’m sicker than hell and haven’t got the system in place. No damn voice, but the mountains are beautiful.
Ralph, find me a job out here.
Rich suggests invading Missouri. The only question I have is that it might be smarter to wait for St. Louis City and St. Louis County to simply ask to be annexed.
The basic problem is the State of Missouri is broke. Sure, it’s solvent, but there’s no money for serious infrastructure improvement for several years. What money does exist is targeted towards podunk towns that have virtually no impact on the state’s economic well being. Instead, we fight over the gays and the blastocysts while Rome burns.
For those who don’t get it, it’s Mississippi with Pro-Sports and a big friggen Arch paid for out of the Great Society.
If Illinois wants a bridge (and it should) just build the damn thing and make Missouri licensed cars pay a toll.
Then fund a City/County secession effort and free us all. The Illinois National Guard can kick the Missouri National Guard’s butt if for no other reason than Missouri has an even crappier educational system in the rural areas.
And as Rich points out, the web site is a miserable failure.
From Marin:
Giannoulias, 30, is the guy the party didn’t endorse but who won the March 21 primary anyway. And unless Illinois Dems are just awfully slow in updating their Web site, his absence suggests the continuing antagonism that arose from his candidacy. The chairman of the Illinois Democratic Party, House Speaker Michael Madigan, backed Knox County State’s Attorney Paul Mangieri instead.
“Unless the Illinois Dems are just awfully slwo in updating their website”
I’m actually quite happy they update the events section, but most of the site hasn’t changed in months. Nothing new since March at least and for some time I don’t think Obama or Bean were listed–like until later 2005.
I’m not sure Alexi is getting thrown under the bus, but the general expectation is he fell down in front of it and why bother at this point.
And as Rich points out, the web site is a miserable failure.
From Marin:
Giannoulias, 30, is the guy the party didn’t endorse but who won the March 21 primary anyway. And unless Illinois Dems are just awfully slow in updating their Web site, his absence suggests the continuing antagonism that arose from his candidacy. The chairman of the Illinois Democratic Party, House Speaker Michael Madigan, backed Knox County State’s Attorney Paul Mangieri instead.
“Unless the Illinois Dems are just awfully slwo in updating their website”
I’m actually quite happy they update the events section, but most of the site hasn’t changed in months. Nothing new since March at least and for some time I don’t think Obama or Bean were listed–like until later 2005.
I’m not sure Alexi is getting thrown under the bus, but the general expectation is he fell down in front of it and why bother at this point.
Okay, Pavich, Seals and Gill are on the ballot, but so is my college advisor David Loebsack in IA-02. Drop your vote. Visit Dave’s site here.
After some initial problems Dave is ironing out his campaign and in a year like this a Dem leaning District should be in play. He’ll need all the help he can get. So do the others and they are all good candidates.
He’s the guy who reported on 1800 state job clout list in Illinois, but didn’t come close to beating a non-scandal in Nevada.
I don’t think I actually linked to O’Connor’s piece, but largely because I thought it was sufficiently covered in the press as to be redundant here. Perhaps if I attack him next time, it’ll get him better notice from the superiors and better coverage of a real story…
What bothers me about this is the notion that because Solomon got the attention he was doing a good job. In reality, O’Connor was overlooked because he did a good job of actually finding a problem in goverment and pointing it out.
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