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The Champion (Jack Roeser’s vanity project) has an article up on Scott Brown and how he is like Patrick Hughes: Pro-Life.
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Gary Skoien Attacks Opponent for Encouraging Behavior Like Gary Skoien
I forgot how easy the Illinois Review makes snark. They have a video up attacking Gary Skoien’s opponent and part of the video is about how Del Mar runs a website that is risque.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2fabldJKts[/youtube]
And yes, this is the same Gary Skoien caught in his kid’s room with two hookers by his wife.
Family values folks….
She’s Also A Minister…Like Tony Danza and Lawrence Welk
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Whether you are going to perform weddings and funerals or perhaps even baptize children; you have made the decision to take your life into a leadership position. That position emboldens you to pilot your own ship and to speak truth to power and to persevere on your own Journey of Life. Should you fail, remember to get up, dust off and start all over again. It may not be the way of others but it is your way. Share your thoughts in the Blog and join hands in Fellowship with others in our common goal to recognize that “We are All Children of the Same Universe” – and we all have a right to be here.
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Pro-Cougar?
WTF is it with Illinois Republicans…
Here’s a bit of Candidate Cougar’s advice in the RFT:
Erectile dysfunction is not as common as drug companies want men to believe; they have an expensive drug to sell. If you are one of those actually having a hard time performing longer times when having sex, there are things that can help you with that. Sex toys are not only for women, PlugLust has a collection of these for men too like cock rings that delays the climax of the male partner. Most healthy men have sex well into their golden years without artificial or pharmaceutical assistance. A cougar’s love for younger men is much more attributable to their ATTITUDE, not because they might be little quicker and easier to arouse. They grew up viewing their mothers as strong, accomplished women instead of shrinking violets, and their ideal isn’t June Cleaver. Younger men view women as equals not subordinates, and age is a number to them, not part of the sexual equation. They aren’t threatened by a woman that brings a sex toy (or a girlfriend) into bed, because they view it as another dimension in sexual adventure rather than an insult to their masculinity and respond with enthusiastic participation, learn from it and apply the knowledge to the next erotic experience. It’s a learning experience when their partner teaches them what she likes and how she likes it–and show him what you like! The rules and regulations of courtship, dating and sex are a guide and not set in stone. Cougars are in their sexual prime with the drive of a teenage male, and learning how to be a better lover from a older, more experienced partner adds to the encounter for younger men–you’re only as good as your partner! Life’s a banquet – arrive hungry, taste everything (or everybody) and go back for what best satisfies your appetites!
Scratching My Head
At this rather odd post at Illinois Review
Hynes attacks Quinn using dead mayor and race-baiting
There’s no explanation how it’s race-baiting, but facts and logic aren’t exactly the expertise of Illinois Review.
Bob Schillerstrom Is Out
Silly pro-choice Republican…
Also bringing up the point to majority of those in Illinois who now are thinking, he was in? Who? The DuPage heavy group of him, Ryan and Dillard wasn’t sustainable and Schillerstrom was the weakest of the three and was on the wrong side of one of the major issues that matter to his base.
Not the Dan Hynes of 2004
While I’ve been notably absent for too long of this campaign season, I early on backed Dan Hynes. There are many reasons for that mostly having to do with his ability to manage and Pat Quinn’s inability to be a good candidate with too much attention. This was before the prison furlough debacle became known and we now know that it would provide a particularly handy way to attack Quinn from now until November.
My biggest concern was Dan Hynes the wimp we have seen all too often. He has a habit of making a tough statement and then allowing whomever he was taking to task get back up and dust themselves off. I suggested Coffee is for Closers:
Dan Hynes will never be Governor until he learns to throw a punch and not help the guy get up off the floor. He’s a good public servant and a decent human being, but if he wants the Governor’s office, he has to take it for himself.
Hynes has been tougher this cycle and impressive, but hadn’t quite taken the step to prove he had the fortitude to take the nomination for his own.
Until the last 48 hours:
From Capitol Fax’s Youtube channel
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn2w5EwHsdE[/youtube]
Brutal, true, and fair. Extra nice touch using the white guy to avoid the racial overtones of Gore and Bush commercials with Willie Horton.
But the true measure of just how much he’s willing to go after Quinn is using Harold Washington’s blistering attack on Quinn.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zns-K8XrOAk[/youtube]
Those two commercials will dominate the debate for at least the next week going into the following weekend standing on their own. They offer incredibly effective attacks on Quinn’s competence and do it in a way that takes advantage of Quinn’s weaknesses which have long been seen as being a show horse and not a good manager.
Making things worse for Quinn, as usual, Quinn. Quinn denies he was fired by Washington. Who are you going to believe–Quinn or your lying ears? Huh?
The Washington piece is devastating–some initially thought because of the effect it would have in the African-American community, but it reaches nearly all voters. The description of Quinn as an opportunist who cared more about making a name for himself than governing punctures any argument he has to competence and it shows how vulnerable to a Republican challenger he would be.
Lawrence on the State Deficit
Pretty brutal takedown on the Repubicans ‘plans’:
Meanwhile, Republicans vow to erase a deficit expected to reach nearly $12 billion next year simply by stimulating employment in the private sector and downsizing state government — a proposed remedy that may entice voters but affronts reality. Not allowing facts to intrude upon fetching phrases, a couple of the GOP gubernatorial candidates tout tax cuts to help spur the economic surge they contend would stabilize finances and allow our government to pay its bills on time.
Appealing? You bet. Doable? Let’s crunch some numbers.
Assume we freeze tax rates and a robust recovery produces revenue growth of 7.79 percent from the sales tax, 13.2 percent from the personal income tax and 41 percent from the corporate income tax — all of which would match spikes over the last quarter century. The yield would be $2.4 billion, only 20 percent of the deficit.
Illinois revenue experts consider even that scenario wildly optimistic. None of those categorical high points occurred in the same year. Moreover, the generally prosperous 1990s produced annual growth of 6.3 percent from the sales tax, 8.1 percent from the personal income tax and 11.1 percent from corporate and business taxes.
He’s critical of Quinn and Hynes as well pointing out they are both trying to claim they can keep the cost from affecting most people and he’s right. That said, while the Democratic plans are inadequate, the Republican plans aren’t based in reality.
Embrace TEH CRAZY!!!
Rauschenberger endorses Dan Proft:
“The other candidates believe we have a management problem in state government. Proft correctly understands that it is a system problem.”
Rauschenberger, a well-respected former member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and lead budget negotiator for the Senate Republicans, cited Proft’s plans to cut taxes and impose statutory spending caps in his endorsement.
“People ask me if Proft’s ideas are workable. Not only are they workable, they are absolutely necessary,” said Rauschenberger, a former National President of the National Council of State Legislatures (NCSL).
Yes, this will solve a $12 billion structural deficit:
Not only should we not increase the income tax, I am the only candidate for Governor who has proposed specific tax cuts: cutting the personal income tax and corporate income tax in half (1.5% and 2.4% respectively) and eliminating the state estate tax.
Worse, Proft’s ideas to solve the budget rely on eliminating one time costs instead of dealing with the structural part of the deficit. The entire Republican field is dealing with fantasyland math.
Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Programming
I hate Dept of Ed grants. Hate them. I should be getting back to a more normal schedule.