Draft Rocky
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Given the horrible state of the State of Illinois–why not go with a proven winner and draft Rocky Wirtz for Governor?
Definitely not a chip off the old block there!
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Aviva Gibbs to Seals Campaign
In the inbox I got the announcement that Communications Director Aviva Gibbs is leaving Mike Quigley’s office for the Seals Campaign. That’s a great pickup for Seals and a loss for Quigley.
Kirk’s Military Service
From the inbox (probably already mentioned elsewhere):
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I forgot how much I loved that cartoon.
Note to the Kirk Campaign
Everytime you send out one of those press releases about Alexi not being on some board no one has ever heard of….
In December 2008, Commander Kirk, while on active duty, participated in video discussions in the media about the unfolding situation involving then-Governor Blagojevich of Illinois. Members of the Armed Forces on active duty may not participate in television discussions as an advocate for or against a partisan political party, candidate, or cause.
In July 2009, while on active duty in the Washington area, either Commander Kirk or a staff member posted a “twitter” to his Senate campaign web site that indicated he was on duty at the National Military Command Center. At the time, Commander Kirk was a candidate for the Senate. Candidates for political office may not participate in any campaign activities while on active duty. They may not update or revise their websites, and they must inform their campaign staff of the applicable restrictions.
Department of Defense Directive 1344.10, Political Activities by Members of the Armed Forces, addresses these matters.
Hitting the other guy on his resume which had a couple exaggerations that weren’t terribly meaningful is silly when you have created huge liabilities for yourself on the issue. All it does is remind the press that your story is much bigger.
Rich points out that Mark Kirk is full of it:
That’s just bunk, as the Pentagon’s statement confirms…
Commander Kirk was counseled about each of his violations after they occurred and signed a statement acknowledging the limitations on his ability to participate in campaign activities while on active duty. He was required to complete this acknowledgement before being allowed to begin active duty in December 2009.
In other words, Kirk was only able to obtain that waiver after he was “counseled” about his violations and signed a statement promising never to do it ever again.
Kirk is lying. While I’ve been busy I’ve been watching this story and thinking that Mark Kirk really blew a good advantage by not having his staff double check his memory. That would be a story, but one people could move past fairly easily. Busy guy remembers wrong and looks kind of dumb admitting it.
Now, he’s flat out lying and there’s no defense. After you have had time to set the record straight you continue to lie that you didn’t break any DOD regulations when there is a paper trail. That’s not just stupid, but reckless. Kirk got away with a lot running in IL-10 because people seemed to like him and he always had the Tribune to cover his ass. Now that he’s getting more attention, his thin skin is making this a fun meltdown to watch.
Daily Dolt: Rand Paul
I’ll be back to more regular posting over the weekend, next week, but let me throw this one out there for a special level of doltishness:
On Good Morning America today, Paul also steered the conversation toward something more recent, President Obama’s criticism of BP following the oil spill. Paul said: “This sort of, you know ‘I’ll put my boot heel on the throat of BP,’ I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business.”
So it’s unAmerican to criticize a British company and maybe, maybe hold them accountable for destroying much of the ecosystem of the Gulf States as well as the American businesses making a living there.
Ladies and Gentleman: it’s a tea party world.
Broadway Gobbled Up Will Reopen as MB Bank
Typical customers won’t notice huge differences other than a new name on their accounts. Depositers, unsecured ceditors, subordinated debt, and then stockholders are the order for any assets being distributed. There may not be much lost other than by stockholders in the end given the bank was profitable, just under-capitalized.
You Know What To Do
What could go wrong with this strategy…
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I can’t wait for the purity tests to determine
who is a real tea partier
and who is not.
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Tea Party Crashers
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So pretty much the crashers are indistinguishable from the actual tea party participants….
Eric Beat Me to the Punch
Eric wrote a very good column on what is going on in Pat Quinn’s head–which as of today appears to be just about nothing. Hmmmm…Donuts.
One is that Blagojevich was on the offensive quickly and relentlessly. Less than one month after the primary, he was on the air with a series of “What’s she thinking?” TV commercials attacking Topinka’s opposition to a hike in the minimum wage and to an assault weapons ban.
Even though Topinka was fairly well-known to voters — three-term state treasurer, suburban social moderate — the Blagojevich campaign defined her as an erratic extremist before she could define herself, thus forcing her to play defense through the summer and fall.
Quinn doesn’t appear to be fundraising, he doesn’t have a campaign manager, marginally has a campaign team, and has no field operation. What he did have was SEIU and some other unions who could work the ground for him and are now pissed at him. And he attempted to walk out and went the wrong way.
Quinn is running against one of the few Republicans he has a chance of beating with 10 percent unemployment, but he has to define his opponent. But he can’t do that with no money, no campaign, and no media. Bill Brady has said enough stupid things on a regular basis that I could make the What’s She Thinking? ads look like softball if you gave me some production staff and a few million in tv air time. Right now though, Quinn only has about 1 month until people check out for the summer and start to pay attention to politics again in late August or September. Why aren’t we seeing puppy gas chamber web ads at least?
If you recall, Blagojevich went largely dark over the summer because it would have been a waste of money, but the message with no response from Judy stuck and a crook who many of us screamed for a year before his reelection would be going to prison before the end of another term, won by 10 points. If Quinn had fundraised starting in February he could have put together just such a campaign for April/May against a weak fundraiser in Bill Brady. Instead, it appears Brady has hired a competent campaign manager who has his candidate gagged from saying anything too stupid for a while and is probably building a decent fundraising operation. On top of it, Brady had an okay field operation already. It was weak upstate, but he can reach his voters better than most of the other candidates which in a close race matters.
Then again, with things like $85,000 canoe czars we may not be talking about a close election. Oh, and the clown at Corrections is still in charge too. I may have been wrong the other day. It might not be a close race to lose, Pat Quinn may well be the ultimate loser who makes Brady look like an amateur.
A Fucking Canoe Czar?
I can’t tell the difference between Pat Quinn’s actual government actions and an issue of the Onion.
A fucking Canoe Czar? At $85,000? I hate to get all up in arms about small amounts of money when you face the kind of structural deficit Illinois is facing because rearranging the deck chairs doesn’t really matter.
But that is the cost of two state troopers. Two. I’m pretty damn sure the canoeists and kayakers can survive a few years without a czar to coordinate them in the DNR while the state figures out a way to get back to somewhat normal budgeting.
A fucking canoe czar. The guy doesn’t need a campaign manager, he needs a fucking clue manager.