Call It A Comeback
Lynn Sweet covers the Pappas’ strategy and it seems clear she is making a run. I’m not so convinced a late entry helps, but it might work with some momentum building polls right after announcement. Her hope has to be that Obama and Hull don’t start raising their name recognition enough in the mean time to drag down her numbers.
Also, Mellisa Bean is taking another crack at Phil Crane.
Ideological Purity becomes the 2004 Theme for the Illinois Circular Firing Squad Team (AKA Republican Party) as Joe Weigand targets Dave Wirsing. It would appear that the right wing of the Republican Party thinks they live in Alabama and not Illinois. The winner in such challenges may not be a Democrat specifically, but it will certainly be the Illinois Democratic Party.
Unless, of course, someone wants to demonstrate that Anthony Downs and the Median Voter Theorem were incorrect.
While a good stream of conscious rant is great for a blog, couldn’t the Illinois Leader bother forcing Joyce to have a thesis statement?
Just a suggestion.
Just so no one forgets, they remind us all that General John Borling is pro-choice, the Leader’s Headline is General aborts Windy City announcement.
All-in-all Borling sounds interesting, but others have noted his poor speaking ability. In addition, he has a giant target on his head from social conservatives. I have to admire the article though, it paints a hysterical picture of a campaign trying to stage a photo-op.
For those not familiar with the set-up here, I essentially run two blogs. This one concentrates upon Illinois and National politics. The other–linked as Blog Saint Louis to your left, focuses on Saint Louis and Missouri politics. From time to time one suffers from an outbreak of news in the other area.
Currently, Saint Louis is boiling over with news over a school reform effort that is quite heated in some respects and I even do some original reporting on it. For that reason, while I’ll be better than posting once a week over here, through the next couple of weeks the Saint Louis Public Schools situation is going to be fascinating and taking my attention over at Blog Saint Louis. Given there is a general summer lull, I won’t be missing much.
For those that have an interest in School Reform, I think the Blog Saint Louis posts might be interesting. That being said, they do have a certain amount of buy in time associated as you learn the factions and history. Comments about such confusion will lead me to be more clear.
And I’ll be bold here, I think if Saint Louis gets through the next 10-12 weeks successfully, it won’t be Saint Louis Mayor Francis Slay visiting Daley for blessings on a school reform, Daley will be coming to Slay asking how to avoid burning through CEOs who can’t tame the bureaucracy.
As a sometimes bike commuter, the story of the bike messenger that stalked and then attacked a guy he had a run-in with hit home a bit. Most cyclists will regale you with hours of stories about jackasses in cars that seem to be disproportionately middle aged white guys in Dodges. They cut you off, they throw things, they get out of the car until they realize you are bigger, have pepper spray, and in a hell of a lot better shape (ed…excuse me–well normally I am). They then usually quickly get back in after a hard stare.
But cyclists behave badly quite often as well. Some have trailer for bikes to bring in heavy stuff that may be dangerous when dropped on the road. There are of course the riding examples of Darwinian Natural Selection who ride against traffic despite clear guidelines in the laws of physics, but ultimately they are mainly dangers to themselves. Others can be quite horrific such as the bike messenger.
Zorn then uses it as a stepping stone to discuss forgiveness in a quite touching article.
Patrick Fitzgerald indicts a friend of George Ryan and former State Senator on Seven Counts of Perjury in the Licenses for Bribes scandal
Swanson was paid $60,000 a year for three years under the Metropolitan Pier contract, yet did little to no work, U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald said at a news conference this afternoon in downtown Chicago to announce the indictment. The defendant allegedly lied to the grand jury about how he got the contract.
I’ve lost track on the number of indictments, but the Trib reports over 60 with 50 convictions. The real effort here is to try and get closer to Ryan and make a case against him. It appears that Fawell is staying quiet making such a case hard.
Subordinates with this sort of behavior should be made to write full apologies
When asked Friday morning if they wished to make a statement to the court after dropping all charges against two men who have spent most of their lives in prison, one of the two prosecutors handling the case replied: "I don’t think we’re required to . . . "Of course they weren’t, Cook County Circuit Judge Dennis Porter stated. The question was would they like to.
How can someone be so callous as to ignore 27 years of wrongful incarceration?
While this isn’t much of a personal blog, let’s say I have some experience with twins and well, the biggest problem is that they seem to have a habit of having one distract you while the other creates a mess.
John Kass, a father of twins, explains what happens when you don’t get there in time to stop the second one.
Via, Eric Zorn, another father of twins.
I have a placed a call to DCFS, however. What kind of degenerate raises his kids to root for the White Sox?
As for the Royal We–unless you have a mouse in your pocket or are using it for specific literary effect, just don’t.
when I don’t have to, Eric Zorn did it for me:
Braun is not a sure loser because she’s African American or because she’s a woman. She’s a sure loser because she was not a particularly good senator.
Pretty much. My favorite is still when she secured a tax benefit for the Tribune Company and the Trib Editorial Board blasted her for it.
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