Hysterical once I realized who was on the Illinois side of the attack….the Hull campaign staff and Bonnie Grabenhofer the President of Illinois NOW. You know, the Bonnie Grabenhofer of Illinois NOW who came to the defense of Blair Hull after allegations of spousal abuse with this:
IL NOW pres. Bonnie Grabenhofer “said the six-year-old
allegations are troubling, but there are still reasons to
support Hull.” Grabenhofer “said voters need to balance those
private allegations with Hull’s public commitment to women’s
issues” (Chicago Sun-Times, 2/28). Grabenhofer: “The whole
thing raises some troubling questions. Just that it happened.
But I don’t know if this one incident that happened a number of
years ago undoes what he has done.” Grabenhofer “cited Hull’s
work supporting abortion rights groups financially and his
support of his daughter’s Supreme Court battle to preserve Title
IX” (Krol, Arlington Heights Daily Herald, 2/29).
Now, my primary criticism of Hull for that fiasco was not getting it out early, but at the same time there was something absurd in Illinois NOW’s defense of the incident.
Bonnie Granbenhofer and her partner, Gaye Bruhn, are two of the most knee-jerk, single-issue, birdbrained people in politics in Illinois. They have single handedly made IL Now about ONLY reproductive rights and same-sex marriage, vastly narrowing the issues that affect most women in IL.
They are self-interested and just weird. They turn people off.
The strange thing–they aren’t even consistent on those two issues 😉