Illinois: Cook Co. Clerk Dorothy Brown Before Team Obama
On Tuesday, December 8th, Circuit Cook Clerk Dorothy Brown spoke to "Team Obama" (now Team HOPE) at the Flossmoor Station about her campaign for Cook County Board President.
View ArticleIllinois: Deborah Sims threatens Cook County: "We've got to get that penny back"
We've been given fair warning. If Deborah Sims is re-elected, she will vote to raise our taxes (again) here in Cook County. "I think that penny -- we need to figure out how to get it back," she told...
View ArticleIllinois: Bloom Township Dem Committeeman Race Heats Up
If you're a Democrat living in Bloom Township, you probably received a very official looking piece of mail entitled "Voter Alert." While the voter alert was faked, voters in Bloom should have been...
View ArticleIL Sen. Toi Hutchinson: "We haven't been doing that for the last 25-30 years"
State Sen. Toi Hutchinson gave an impassioned speech yesterday for ending Illinois' budget crisis that has paralyzed Illinois' economy, paralyzed Illinois' social agencies, and paralyzed Illinois'...
View ArticleNobody Asked Me, But...
How could public perception of the President's Health Care Bill change so dramatically since it was passed? Polls taken before the vote (eg, Bloomberg & CNN) showed less than 40 percent of those...
View ArticleIllinois SEN: Not even his supporters Trust Mark Kirk
You can't trust Mark Kirk. Even the right-wing conservative Club for Growth doesn't trust Kirk:Now the Club for Growth, the powerful, well-funded conservative group, is ripping into Kirk for his...
View ArticleIL SEN: Mark Kirk fails to answer questions (again)
Half way through the latest Congressional vacation, the AP headline said it all: Kirk won't say if he wants health care repealed. Kirk won't say -- again. Still. In perpetuity.Mark Kirk is more than...
View ArticleIL SEN: Concerns about Alexi Giannoulias misguided
Republican Congressman Mark Kirk, taking his cues from Karl Rove, wants everyone to know that "people are concerned" about his Democratic opponent, Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias. One of these...
View ArticleIL-Sen: Mark Kirk - Dishonoring America's Vets
For those who have served in the military, there is nothing worse than claiming medals that one didn't receive -- or awards that one didn't get. Mark Kirk (R-Wall Street) has been "claiming he...
View ArticleIL-GOV: Fabricating Connections with Rod
You can't blame Republicans for trying. After all, Democrats would do the same thing. But, still, I had to chuckle at this item in the Hotline On Call blog from the National Journal:
View ArticleIL-SEN: Mark Kirk Attempts to Change the Subject
Like just about anybody who could possibly be considered an influence on public opinion (and you can be sure they defined that very broadly), I received a ***Media Advisory*** from Kirsten Kukowski...
View ArticleThrow the Bums Out
Newsflash: voters are angry. Democrats will try to knock on 200,000 doors tomorrow and I'm betting some of them will be surprised.I got a glimpse of that today. I was out running errands in my...
View ArticleImplications of Daley's Decision in the South Suburbs
'OMG! Rich Daley isn't running for re-election! The fallout will reverberate all the way down to the South Suburbs!'Sometimes people over-exaggerate Chicago's influence on the suburbs. Anybody who...
View ArticleBill Brady and his Indiana/Kentucky/Tennessee envy
It never occurred to me that anyone in Illinois envied Indiana. Here we are, with Chicago, the jewel of the Midwest, the gravitational force that draws people from throughout the region, and one of...
View ArticleIL: Chicago Heights' mayoral candidate Dave Gonzalez crossing the Shakman line
I got word yesterday that Dave Gonzalez, a current vendor (he has some kind of contract with the city) and candidate for mayor in Chicago Heights, has called a meeting for this Saturday of all...
View ArticleIf it's Tuesday, It must be Election Day (in Wisconsin)
On Saturday, just as we've done on every Saturday save one, over the past few months, a group from Team HOPE went up to Ripon, Wisconsin to help Fred Clark in his primary election against a fake...
View ArticleThe Party of Deadbeat Dads
We are told that "the Republican ideal embodies a strong father figure," but it seems to me that Republicans are more like dead-beat dads. The debate over raising the debt ceiling has made this...
View ArticleAs Congress Hotel Strike reaches 3,000 days it is time to remember
Aaron Krager reminds us that the Congress Hotel Strike is in its 3,000 day, the longest strike in the country's history.
View ArticleThe Tarnished 2nd and Hope for a change
The president returned to his hometown yesterday. Given the excitement that generally surrounds the time when the Obamas return to Chicago, you might have expected it to be the talk of the town.You...
View ArticleGOTV Weekend for Robin Kelly
"We're putting the band back together again." I heard this not once, but twice, yesterday -- about two different groups of people! -- as we were picking up packets and heading out the doors to get out...
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