First, for those not familiar with it, GOPILLINOIS is a site run by Dave Diersen, a Republican activist from Wheaton. The site collects some of the more important articles related to state politics–especially Republican politics in Illinois. Rich Miller has pointed it out before. It was originally done in an e-mail, but he now posts each day on the web site and it’s a great resource. Dave is way to the other end of political spectrum from me, but it’s an invaluable resource. I don’t link to it enough–though there is a permalink on the left. He does some commentary as well and has linked to ArchPundit from time to time which I appreciate.
The above is to assuage my guilt over not linking enough and then making fun of one of the events he’s been promoting.
Judge Roy Moore made a visit to Illinois with stops in Wheaton and Rockford
From Dierson’s Summary:
About 350 heard an outstanding address by former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore at the Wheaton Evangelical Free Church in Wheaton Saturday evening, September 24. Sadly, it appeared that the neither the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald, Wheaton Sun, nor the Wheaton Leader assigned any of their reporters to cover this major news event. Speakers included Sandy Rios and Senator Peter Roskam and attendees included Senator Bill Brady, Eileen Byrne, Paul Caprio, State Representative Randy Hultgren, Peter Labarbera, David McSweeney, Frank Penn, Scott Thomas, Dr. Eric Wallace, and Jon Zahm.
I have to agree with Dierson that it’s odd no one covered that several important candidates and political operatives were in attendance at a talk by Roy Moore. Roskam spoke with Moore–does he approve of Moore? And where does he break with Moore?
Moore is the guy who flaunted orders from superior courts to remove his 10 Commandments monument on state grounds. It wasn’t just that he disagreed with a Superior Court, he flouted the ruling and was eventually tossed from the Court from an ethics complaint initiated by Bill Pryor, a very conservative Attorney General who Bush then nominated to the Court of Appeals.
There are some real serious questions people need to have answers about from those who are seeking office at the rally and whether they support Roy Moore’s challenge to the inegrity of the US Judicial System. Unfortunately, no one asked them that day.
To the Republican who think Moore’s great: Didn’t we learn anything from Alan Keyes?
CORRECTED: Called Dave John and misspelled the last name.
Sad thing is the DCCC likely thinks Cegelis “doesn’t represent this district’s attitudes” — does Roskam’s right-wing fundamentalist ideology actually represent the 6th? I don’t think so.
To answer your question, Roskam (friend of the embattled and ethically-challenged far right conservatives Tom DeLay and Grove Norquist) spoke at this event. He approves of Moore, or he wouldn’t have spoken. Anyone who thinks different is being disingenuine.
Dave’s last name is D-I-E-R-S-E-N, and he doesn’t go by “John”, John is his middle name.
Also, you failed to mention that the “classy” anti-war protestors that showed up at the Wheaton picnic were holding signs that said “Who would Jesus bomb”. Meanwhile, everyone else was there to pay honor to the people who lost their lives on 9/11, and for the troops who are defending our country and for the ones who died doing it.