Kathy Salvi Announce for IL-08
ArchPundit
I mentioned she had apparently set up an exploratory committee according to comments at the Leader
McSweeney IL-08
Raised $305124.00, on hand $228973.58 $37000 is McSeeney’s.
UPDATES: Correction here
Lipinski IL-03 Numbers
$39850.00 raised, $125312.26 on hand.
Must be feeling pretty confident.
Pankau’s out of the 6th District Race
It hurts the Dems because it means that Roskam can now focus on the general election and worse, there isn’t going to be an internal Republican debate over how conservative Roskam is.
All this and no one got to ask Pankau about daylight savings time. Damn.
Speck Killing Anniversary
Was yesterday and 848 did a bit on it
Whatever happened to the investigation into the Speck video from prison? Oh yeah, nothing.
Articulate
“Yes, Peter Roskam is a very conservative man and he’s too conservative for my taste, but he’s a likable ultra-conservative,” said Carney, who described Roskam as an articulate public speaker. “We agree on fiscal things but we disagree on social issues.”
You can use it as a back handed complement to endorse a white male for Congress. Who knew?
A Real Basic Question
When exactly is it okay to use a CIA employee’s identity to discredit a spouse?
There’s a lot of garbage out there right now, but it seems that this question can’t be answered. If there is a time to out a CIA employee, because of some perceived slight by the employee’s spouse, what’s the general rule this falls under that makes such an action okay?
I promised myself I wouldn’t spend much time on this, but as the situation has developed I’ve been shocked at the excuses given that don’t provide any reason as to what the public good is.
Illinois DNC Members to Bush: Fire Him
Leading Illinois Democrats to Top Republicans:
Join us in calling for President Bush to fire Karl Rove.
It’s about time the Illinois Democrats got in the game on this–and see my post below for what’s about to happen–an attack on Patrick Fitzgerald. Now, would any of the Illinois Republicans who have been touting the tough corruption fighter want to step up to the plate and defend him?
President George W. Bush should be held to his word and fire Karl Rove for leaking confidential information about a covert CIA agent according to Illinois Democrats who called on top Republicans to join them in holding Bush to his promise.
?President Bush promised to fire anyone who leaked confidential information. We Democrats are asking top Republicans to join us in holding Bush to his word,? said State Senator Carol Ronen, one of three Democratic National Committee members who called on GOP candidates for Governor to take a stand for ?what is right.?
Karl Rove?s own lawyer, Robert Luskin, admitted to Newsweek that Rove did speak to Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper about this same story days before Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Robert Novak disclosed the name of a covert CIA agent. This contradicts earlier White House statements that Rove and other White House staff had no role in leaking confidential information that Bush Administration critic Joseph Wilson?s wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA agent.
Despite the fact that The White House said two years ago that Rove wasn’t involved in the leak, a recently released July 2003 e-mail made it clear that Rove told Time?s Cooper that the woman “apparently works” for the CIA, according to a report by Newsweek. It added that the woman had authorized a trip to Africa by her husband, U.S. Ambassador Joe Wilson, to check out allegations that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger for nuclear weapons
On June 10, 2004, President Bush agreed that he would fire anyone at the White House who leaked confidential information. On several occasions, White House Spokesman Scott McClellan repeated the promise. Democrats called on the President to keep his word and fire Rove, and called on those considering a run for Governor to do the same.
Alderman Joe Moore, another DNC member, took direct aim at both announced and expected Republican candidates for Governor.
?We are calling on Judy Baar Topinka, Ron Gidwitz, Jim Oberweis, Steve Rauschenberger, Joe Birkett, Bill Brady and others who are considering a run for the highest office in Illinois to adhere to the highest standards of right and wrong and call for the President to fire Karl Rove,? said Moore.
Moore added that Illinois Republicans should take a stand. ?This story was leaked to an Illinois columnist and is being investigated by an Illinois U.S. Attorney. We need to know where Illinois Republicans stand on it. Should President Bush be held to his word or is Karl Rove above the law?? said Moore.
State Senator and DNC Member Iris Martinez noted that while some of the targets have not formally announced, they have been raising money and attacking Democrats in the media. ?Now it?s time for these to show horses to show some real leadership,? added Martinez.
An ongoing investigation by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald of Chicago is focused on whether a crime was committed when someone leaked the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame, whose name was published by the Sun-Times? Novak on July 14, 2003.
According to published reports, disclosure of the identity of an undercover intelligence officer can be a federal crime if prosecutors can show the leak was intentional and the leaker knew about the officer’s secret status.
Novak’s column appeared after Plame’s husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, wrote a newspaper opinion article criticizing Mr. Bush’s claim that Iraq had sought uranium in Niger ? a claim the CIA had asked Wilson to check out. Wilson has said he believes his wife’s name was leaked as retribution.
Of the three, I met Moore briefly at the DNC regional meeting. It was only a short talk, but he was very gracious with his time.
It’s Starting on Fitzgerald
Sen. Roberts (R) just said that Fitzgerald’s investigation had “a lot of leaks.” Is he kidding?
Can anyone identify a leak from Fitzgerald’s investigation? There may have been one, but I can’t think of any and for a DC investigation, that’s remarkable.