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The Old Cell Phone Losing Coverage Gag

ArchPundit May 18, 2004 No Comments

Ed Burke acted as if he was losing coverage with his cell phone while talking to reporters about the $17,000 in free insurance he received from Michael Segal.

Best part of the article:

Burke was notified he was getting free insurance. He started paying for it after Segal was arrested in 2002, according to testimony

Second best,

On Friday, when a reporter called the Finance Committee chairman on his cell phone to ask about the free insurance, the City Council’s most powerful alderman appeared to hide behind his cell phone.

”Hellooo? Hellooo??” Burke said, as if he didn’t hear the question, before hanging up.

A follow-up call to his cell phone seconds later went unanswered. He didn’t return a voice-mail message.

But did the phone ring or go directly into the voice mail?

Dept. of Corrections

ArchPundit May 18, 2004 No Comments

On the post concerning Rich Williamson:

I’m tracking down what his position was exactly, but Williamson is back at Mayer and whatever long name it has now as a law firm. His position at the UN wasn’t likely a deputy to Negroponte, but I haven’t had time to figure out exactly where he was in the organizational chart.

And in 2000, he had no official candidate he was backing in the primary as he was Republican Party Chair at the time.

My apologies for the mistakes and thanks to Jeff Berkowitz for catching them.

Volunteer for the Illinois Democratic Party

ArchPundit May 17, 2004 No Comments

The Crack Web Site indicates you can contact someone in the following ways;

Democratic Party of Illinois
P.O. Box 518
Springfield, IL 62705
Phone: 217/546-7404
Fax: 217/546-8847

Yeah, great. A new web site any time soon guys?

Or is that new fangled technology too much to take advantage of?

Speaking of which, I think Obama’s campaign is starting to move towards its next step in the campaign. Fortunately for them, they already have some built in infrastructure from Democracy for America.

Testing missile defense before deployment?

ArchPundit May 17, 2004 3 Comments

The Pentagon plans to deploy national missile defense later this year — just in time for the November elections. Incredibly, 13 Republicans and 1 Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee last week refused to require the Pentagon to thoroughly and realistically test national missile defense Click Here for the votes. The General Accounting Office has said that such testing is required to determine if the system will work. So has the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester. Why have Senators opposed testing? They seem to be afraid that realistic testing will show the deployment to be a sham. The full Senate will have another chance the week of May 17, when Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and Jack Reed (D-RI) offer an amendment to require thorough testing of national missile defense. (Click on to learn more about missile defense.) (Click here to contact Members of Congress.)

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Great, now we have a faith based military. Dandy.