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The Family Taxpayers Network threatens Bill Brady via one of its online publications.
Mr. Brady just needs to understand that if Topinka does win on Tuesday, and Brady finishes no better than third – his name is Mud. He’s done. And he WILL have a Primary challenge for his State Senate seat in 2008.Some sins are just too egregious to forget. And if Topinka wins on Tuesday – our Illinois Party is officially dead – at least until Topinka loses to Blagojevich in November. So there will be a lot of time for holding the duplicitous accountable.
The FTN even posits that Brady is a plant.
If Bill Brady isn’t in cahoots with Judy Baar Topinka and staying in the race just to help her win by splitting the conservative vote – then why has Brady so frequently attacked only Jim Oberweis? […]If Bill Brady isn’t deliberately playing the Spoiler to help Topinka – why does he badmouth Jim Oberweis and constantly misrepresent his positions – but never has a negative word to say about Topinka, the incumbent frontrunner?
Why did pro-gay, pro-abortion, pro-feminist Topinka say in the last televised debate that if she had to vote for one of the other candidates – it would be Bill Brady?
Why after recently calling her Primary opponents “morons,†did Topinka quickly amend her public insult to let only Brady off the hook?
No offense to FTN, but when has that group ever defeated an incumbent Republican in a legislative primary, let alone someone as locally popular as Bill Brady?
Also, what if Brady finishes in second place and FTN’s preferred (and financially backed) candidate Jim Oberweis finishes third? Does that mean FTN should be banished from the face of the earth? Should Jack Roeser be forced to stop contributing to political campaigns forever? [Hat tip to a commenter.]
posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:03 pm
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In light of this news, I’m writing Brady a check and putting his bumper sticker on my BMW.
Comment by Proud RINO Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:09 pm
How ridiculous is that !!! ?? What is with these people ??? I would think that thought pattern is ludicrious let alone plain “nuts” !! Talk about the “Big Lie Theory” !!! Oby is a “has been” & they just can’t quite figure it out !! Oby ought to leave the race & give true conservastives & ALL GOP a chance & a real candidate. BB has been campaigning in one way or another for 14 months plus !!! Looks like someone left the gates open again ! People will finish as they finish … it’s called voting & peoples choice …. perhaps you’ve heard of it !?
Comment by anon Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:13 pm
Brady will survive Jack Roeser … why … because EVERYONE survives the “wrath” of FTN and Jack Roeser. That basement with the one big lamp, and moist brick walls dripping, and HAM Radios blaring will get colder and colder come March 21st. “Blue Lighting, this is Green Wagon, we need to run someone against Brady, I repeat, we need to run someone against Brady, over!”
Comment by In the Land of Silos and Cows Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:16 pm
FTN absolutely amazes me. Sticking by your conservative principles is one thing, but backing Jim Oberweis in this primary is an act of absolute insanity. People like Jack Roeser and the mental-midgets from RYP that he’s currently employing should be supporting Bill Brady in this race because he has not only the conservative credentials but one important quality that Jim Oberweis doesn’t have: electability in November. Brady should drop out and endorse Oberweis so Oberweis can be slaughtered by Blagojevich in November?
Someone - be they from FTN or the Oberweis camp - please explain to me how Jim Oberweis isn’t textbook unelectable after:
- the two disastrous campaigns he’s run already
- the level of complete revilement he reached after those delightfully tasteless ads he ran on illegal immigration on ‘04
- the delectably disgusting “joke” be made about tracking illegals like animals
- his unfavorable ratings are at 38% according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and they certainly aren’t trending south
Please, someone tell me how Oberweis isn’t completely unelectable against Blagojevich. And try to do it logically, without the Kool-Aid moustache gracing your upper lip.
Comment by Thom Yorke Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:19 pm
Team Oberweis is deeply paranoid — everyone who isn’t with them is in league with everyone else who isn’t with them. Circle the wagons is no way to win a race.
Comment by Ring Ring Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:22 pm
Bottom line: Oberweis and his people know that he can’t win. The only way for them to save face is to hope and pray for a second place finish and then blame it on Brady. I think we’ve just scene the foundation for that strategy being poured.
Comment by grand old partisan Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:26 pm
Anybody remember the “Night of the Long Knives?” the party will be purified. Sieg Heil!
Comment by HoosierDaddy Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:31 pm
I think the conspiracy is between Blago and the people that runs the nut house.While else would you have 3 day passes to the nuts at election time.
Comment by DOWNSTATE Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:32 pm
BTW– What happens if Obie finishes no better than third? Do the FTN long knives get to purge him?
Comment by HoosierDaddy Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:33 pm
Can you imagine this bunch running state gov’t or anything resembling democracy ??? What a bunch of arrogant $%#*&. This has got to be an some kind of bizarre coincidence that all these folks ended up in the same place. What time does the space ship leave ???
Comment by anonny Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:34 pm
Obie - a has been? More like never was…
Ubermilk fur fuhrer!
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:35 pm
Plese remember much of what they publish is lost in translation. It’s much better and better understood in the original German.
Comment by anon Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:39 pm
“If Brady runs in 08, let them bring their candidate out. Who is it gonna be?”
- Probably Allen Keyes. These guys back the winner EVERY TIME!
Comment by ILvoter Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:46 pm
All this just stengthens Brady’s position !!! He’s been a hard working viable candidate. That’s who they attack because he’s the candidate they’re after. Wonder what the “Eagle Forum” thinks of their guy now??
Comment by anon one Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:47 pm
Milk Man Milk Man Uber Alis.
As a democrat I must say that I agree with FTN. I would much rather have the misstepping Blago-scare running against the befuddled Milkman any day of the week.
Comment by St. Nickname Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:50 pm
I just put an update on my computer’s calendar for December of 2007 to remind myself to check and see whether FTN filed a candidate against Brady.
Comment by Rich Miller Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:56 pm
Rich - I’ll give 3-2 odds it’ll be Oberweis. He’ll need something to run for in 2008. Unless he wants to run as John Cox’s veep.
Comment by Thom Yorke Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 4:58 pm
FTN is really dumb. If they had any brains they would go with Brady and drown Obie in milk. After Judy, Brady is the guy that scares me the most as a Dem. He reminds me a lot of Reagan. I disagreed wholeheartedly with his policies but personally felt a warmth coming from his personality.
Brady also has a future, something I think none of the other GOP candidates has at this point (especially not Obie).
Comment by Minion Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 5:07 pm
and why did Oberweis claim he would back Gidwitz, the (insert gasp here) moderate … hmmm…
I wish the FTN would just go away … far, far away.
Comment by YNM Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 6:11 pm
I want the IL State Board of Elections, to come down hard on Roeser and take him to court over the 50k in fines. FTN and all of the rest of the absolute hypocritical organizations that are backing Milkdufus need to be expelled Canada.
Comment by southernilrepub Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 6:15 pm
If FTN had any real power and real brains then they would elect Brady and dump the milk dud.
Comment by Shadrock Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 6:37 pm
Helloooo! FTN asks great questions, and I wondered the same long before FTN. As far as I can read on this blog, no one even tries to answer them! I like the way someone put it. I like the way one person put it best. ” I would much rather have ice cream than the old baloney we’ve been getting!
Comment by Winnerscircle Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 6:42 pm
Aren’t these kind of tactics part of that “Culture of Corruption” these people say they want to clean up?
Sounds like they just want to replace it with their own people.
Comment by Rick Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 6:47 pm
Roeser backed anything is soon going to be dead in Illinois.
Brady is the only hope and my new hero for conservative Republicans in our state.
I hope the rest of my fellow conservatives will dump the facists and vote Brady
Comment by Anon Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 6:54 pm
Rick, you hit it right on the money.
FTN has some nerve insisting that they can crown the “conservative” winner, particularly on the grounds of ethics, when FTN actually endorsed both GEORGE RYAN and JESSE WHITE in 1998.
Their vindictive power-politics threat is right in line with everything they supposedly denounce.
I hope this convinces conservatives who have thrown in with Obie to ditch him and vote for Brady.
Comment by Elect Brady Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 6:57 pm
here’s the best line from their “editorial”:
“If one candidate has to go, it should be the one who has been the most dishonest, the most hypocritical, done the most attacking – and the one who is farthest behind. That means Bill Brady on all counts.”
Really? I don’t even think the casual observer who is not behind Brady would say he has been the most dishonest, the most hypocritcal or done the most attacking.
Can anyone say “fake headlines”?
Can anyone say “JBT-bashing”?
Can anyone say “flip-flopper”?
Come on … this stuff is ridiculous. But I like it … for one reason … it only gives Brady even more lift. People just don’t have a taste for this stuff.
And Winnerscircle … wha-huh? What great questions were they asking that no one here is answering? Please, enlighten me … enlighten all of us.
Comment by YNM Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 7:01 pm
Man……am I gonna miss this Republican “lovefest” after Tuesday night. You guys gotta keep this up. It is way too entertaining.
Comment by tough guy Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 7:30 pm
[…] Now Oberweis’ backers are threatening him with a Primary for daring to run for Governor. […]
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I hardly know how to begin.
A: Judy Baar Topinka would win a two-way primary race with Jim Oberweis. Any reasonable division of the polling numbers shows that. I don’t want to take up the space here that would be needed to go through every possible slicing and dicing of the votes. Any objective look at the polling numbers shows that in a two-race way Topinka would be over 50% and Oberweis would be under. (One small illustration: Even with two other conservatives in the race, Topinka is still picking up 25% of the voters who consider themselves “Very Conservative”) So, the assertion that Brady is somehow a “spoiler” (and Ron Gidwitz is not) is absurd.
B: Any Republican candidate is going to be the underdog in the general election. That doesn’t mean a Republican can’t win, it just means that Blagojevich starts with an advantage. Oberweis would lose on the scale of Keyes. Topinka, Brady or Gidwitz would all at least be in the hunt, each for different reasons. So, any “spin” that Oberwies would be a better general election candidate is just that: “spin.”
C: FTN is going to find a primary challenger in Bloomington in 2008 to run to the RIGHT of Brady? Good luck with that.
D: It’s time to ban two words from the Republican vocabulary: RINO and “Combine.” Basically, RINO means anyone who disagrees with the person using the phrase. “Combine” apparently means anyone who has any real life experience in getting people elected.
E: Maybe the real conspirators are FTN? Maybe this is just a plot on their part to raise Brady’s name ID, set him apart from the pack and demonstrate that he is independent of millionaire suburban power brokers?
Comment by Old Elephant Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 7:34 pm
If Bill Brady is the best we can do in Illinois, I’m thinking Wisconsin looks pretty good.
Comment by DuPage Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 7:40 pm
Here comes DuPage again … last time it was kool-aid comments, this time he’s threatening to leave the state.
I say take your milk and go … “On Wisconsin!”
Comment by YNM Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 8:29 pm
Nice to see that Bill inspires passion in somebody.
Comment by anon Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 8:37 pm
How are all you Brady trolls tonight?
Look, I’m not affiliated with FTN, but even I can see how OBVIOUS it is that Brady and Topinka are in cahoots. How much more evidence do you all need? Their lovefest is proof enough.
Comment by Anon Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 8:43 pm
Jack once served a very good purpose — keeping the conservative voice alive in the Republcan Party in this state, when it didn’t have one. Now, Jack has finally lost it. He threatens the conservatives in his party, far more than he attacks liberals.
It also has to do with whom he surrounds himself with these days, Doug, Kathy, Joe, etc. These people don’t know what it takes to win, as they’ve never done it. They are concerned with capturing power. Power that doesn’t exist.
Bill Brady is a fine candidate and I wish he were the only one running for governor in the GOP primary. He’s just what the party needs to bring the unity that we’ve not had in years. I admit, I don’t like JBT and I don’t like Oberweis. Judy has been a fine public servant, but I don’t think she has what it takes to be Blago. Oberweis changes his positions on issues as often as he decides to run for a new office. Sometimes his positions on issues are correct, but he frames them so terribly, he ends up hurting himself!
Bill Brady is the future of the GOP in Illinois. If Jack wants to run someone against him, I say, bring them on. I will personally go to Bloomington to work for Bill Brady myself when that day comes.
Jack–it’s time to hang it up and call it a day.
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 8:50 pm
Has any of the 177 legislators endorsed Obie? Thats a real sign that no one wants to work with him in the GA!
Comment by anon Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 8:56 pm
Mr. Brady has spent the last year and a half campaigning. I’m no mathemetician, but If I remember right, JBT has only been in this race for about six months - a third of the time Brady has been campaigning. I think JBT is in cahoots with Oberweis to sabotage the Brady Campaign!
Makes as much sense as the other theory!
C’mon! This has gone beyond pathetic. Is Oberweis going to threaten in the next couple to run again if we don’t nominate him this time. He makes it embarrassing to be a Republican, regardless of who you support in this primary.
Comment by FrustratedRepublican Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 8:57 pm
If I were Mike Madigan, I’d be encouraging Roeser and his band of merry men any way I could…from a distance.
Comment by Six Degrees of Separation Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 9:38 pm
Like others, I’m dismayed by the constant infighting within the state Republican Party. However, I don’t see Bill Brady as the future of the party. He is anti-science, pro-gun, and opposes abortion in the case of rape and incest. That message may resonate with staunch conservatives, but it won’t win many statewide elections. Frankly, I don’t see much difference between Brady, Oberweis and Keys for that matter. As a moderate, they do not speak to my values and I don’t think they are going to bring many mainstream voters back to the party. I’m tiring of the culture wars and will not vote for politicans who seek to divide instead of reaching out with fresh ideas.
Comment by Anon Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 9:42 pm
Anon 8:50PM -
If you’re going to attack someone, at least learn how to spell their name.
Comment by Anon Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 9:48 pm
We all knew Oberweis and his campaign were going to implode somewhere along the line. Its commendable that he was able to get this far this time. Does anybody think he will be back in 2008?
Comment by notquitehip Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 9:58 pm
If Brady wins, will he be running the same spots in Chicagoland he is running in Springpatch? You know the ones where he states, he is pro-life, loves the gun lobby and “is from Central Illinois”. Bet that plays well up there. Brady is better where he is because most of the state is no where near as conservative as him. I think he is dulusional if thinks he win statewide touting those positions. But keep dreaming GOP, he may be the best you are going to get for all time.
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 10:08 pm
Bi-Polarweis â„¢. Wumpus, that one does deserve a trademark (My check’s in the mail for using it). BTW, in ‘ole Jack’s defense, he is quite successful in killing every referendum the Carpentersville school district puts up. Too bad he chose the MilkMan. Since Zahm’s also working for Churchill in the 8th, these guys really know how to pick a winner.
Comment by Not Tellin Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 10:08 pm
Had Jim Ryan not suffered such an unfortunate last name, he’d probably be governor right now, and he was about as conservative as Brady. I guess if you say it enough it must be true… a conservative can’t win in Illinois. Because Jim Edgar won and a conservative hasn’t won since I think says more about the weakness of the party than the ideology of the state. Blago will be beaten because he’s corrupt and has dug the state even deeper into debt than we already were - not because he’s liberal.
Edgar won re-election because he effectively painted Netsch as a tax-raiser - not because she was one on end or the other ideologically.
Sure they’ll try to paint a conservative with a broad brush, but who wields the brush may mean more than what they want to paint.
Comment by FrustratedRepublican Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 10:19 pm
Let’s see, their manifesto is here: http://www.familytaxpayers.net/?p=art&id=208
Their anti health, anti kids health stand here: http://www.familytaxpayers.net/?p=sum&topid=4&flyoutid=5
Their anti human rights stand here: http://www.familytaxpayers.net/?p=sum&topid=4&flyoutid=6
Their anti education stand here: http://www.familytaxpayers.net/?p=sum&topid=1
What other misery do they wish to bring to Illinois? He’s an old man with money, not respected by respectable people (only people like him - let’s see Grover Norquist who’s connected to Jack Abramhoff), and willing to deliver hate to your door step with contempteous righteousness.
BTW, there’s no conspiricy. I think you all went over the edge on that.
Comment by Give me a break Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 10:39 pm
Oh yeah, Pat O’Malley, another Roesser stooge. Did he have a legitimate beef with Jim Ryan or is he a sore loser?
Comment by Wumpus Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 11:45 pm
I bet if you checked the grocery stores in the FTN land of Carpentersville right now, there would literally be not a single box of tin foil left on the shelves.
Comment by Anon Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 12:34 am
My recent lack of comments is attributed to concurring with 95% of other bloggers… and this be no different. I must also weigh-in on this. Oberweis has a record of having wierd people work for him. Jack Roeser and the Family Taxpayers Network are no different from any other (wierd) Obee supporters. They fail to see why people think they are wierd. Maybe someday they will try to look at things from another’s perspective… but I doubt it. They give conservatives and republicans bad names, and should frankly be ashamed of themselves. I await a public apology (from all wierd conservatives in general)… (not holding my breath)
Comment by Lovie's Leather Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 12:37 am
Circle Em Up!
AND FIRE! Thank God for Jack Roeser I couldn’t make this stuff up. We have just a few questions: If Bill Brady isnÂ’t in cahoots with Judy Baar Topinka and staying in the race just to help her win by…
Trackback by ArchPundit Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 1:17 am
Durbin 60
Brady 38
Comment by T.J. Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 1:31 am
Jack and the FTN has made many terriable decisions over the years. This has to be the worst. He has little creditability after those false ads. The one person that stand tall on his Christian principle and ethics is Bill Brady. FTN will just drift off with knowing they backed another looser.
Comment by The Conservative Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 7:12 am
This is about as paranoid as any organization can get. All they have done is confirm what many thinking folks have observed. This group is so far out of reality that they are scary, scary.
If there were any undecided leaning towards Obie, they are running away.
The winner in their tirade is Brady. He comes out of this looking like a sane conservative. That will help position him in 2008 no matter what.
I would love to see who the FTN runs against Bill in 2008 for his senate seat.
Comment by Nearly Normal Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 7:43 am
Just got Oberweis’s latest mailing. We all know how “anti-immigration” and pro-
American Obie has been in his last two campaigns, drawing heavily from the rabid anti-immigrant crowd for support.
Well, look at Obie’s picture in his latest brochure, the one with him and his grandkids sitting on the family room sofa.
Clear in the picture is a coffee-table book entitled “The Canadian Rockies”. The picture on the wall is by the French impressionist Caillebotte. Doesn’t so all-American to me…Obie flips yet again!
Comment by Obie Flops Yet Again Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 7:48 am
Has anyone found a legislator who has endorsed Obie yet?
Comment by anon Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 8:09 am
Jim Oberweis:
Wile E. Coyote of the Illinois Republican Party
If we could just have that music behind every newspaper story about his pathetic antics…
Comment by anonymous Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 8:35 am
How do I go about joining FTN? Those guys are great!
Comment by Skeeter Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 9:06 am
It’s “obvious” Brady i sin cahoots with Judy. It’s also obvious that a Jewish conspiracy controls Hollywood, that the government is hiding aliens, that the U.N. is the One World Government of the Beast…. can’t you people see anything…. really…
Comment by HoosierDaddy Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 9:18 am
The Illinois Committee for Honest Government did give serious consideration to endorsing Senator Brady’s candidacy for Governor in the Republican Primary, prior to our decision to endorse Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka. For the record, what swung the matter to Topinka was not the ideological issues, as the ICHG tries its best not to base endorsements on a strict ideological line like the IVI-IPO on the left or groups like the Family Taxpayers Network on the right. Rather,it was our contention that she has the best chance of any of the Republican hopefuls to destroy the political career of Rod Blagojevich, whom we consider to be a political cancer affecting both the people of the state of Illinois and the Illinois Democratic Party. In addition, Topinka’s more extensive record of service in state government had to be taken into account.
With all that said, while I may disagree with Bill Brady on a number of issues, he has consistantly campaigned in a dignified manner. The same cannot be said for Jim Oberweis. Should Brady seek re-election to the Illinois Senate in 2008, I suspect that the Illinois Committee for Honest Government (as part of our goal to have the General Assembly be composed of a diverse group of talented and capable individuals, given that no one side has a monopoly on good ideas) would quickly endorse him against some ideologue put up by the Family Taxpayers Network (or some similar group).
I only wish that more candidates would go about the campaign trail like Sen. Brady has, presenting their views on the issues and allowing him to agree or disagree with them.
RANDALL SHERMAN
Secretary/Treasurer, Illinois Committee for Honest Government
Chicago
shermanrandall@hotmail.com
Comment by Randall Sherman Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 9:22 am
Randall has it right. Politics is amoral and relative by nature. Electoral victory results from weaving together coalitions — Cook County excepted
Never dig a chasm wider than you can bridge. One can not reform a party from the top down. Reform comes from the people who vote, not from the money.
The Republican Party has turned into a colloquy of fiefdoms, proud and stubborn. It is absent committeemen at the precinct level and those that have been elected or selected appear to be talkers rather than listeners. Ameliorating differences for a common effort is beyond some
Township party officials are usually dual hatted and pay more attention to their own political futures than the organization and efforts of the party base.
At the County level a similar attitude is in place
These faults are correctable. The State Party is similarly disconnected. Silence reigns The Buddha in Chicago state headquarters is silent. The Eunuch in Charleston sits on his political hoard and emerges occasionally to pontificate.The peniultimate Republican Governor is now engaged in fee generation crossing party lines. There is no urgency at the top. There is no urgency at the bottom. The special intersts groups fill in the vacuum.
Comment by Truthful James Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 10:21 am
Ya see..this is the kinda crap republicans have to deal with in Illinois. If I’m Bill Brady in the next election I say to this group….”Bring it on.”
Comment by scoot Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 10:37 am
I don’t take FTN’s threats seriously, but I think their assertion that Brady is only in this race to split the conservative vote is right on the money.
-Brady’s smart, but his far-right message dooms him from ever winning the general.
-Brady’s pledge to run a positive race only applies to Topinka. He directly and indirectly attacks Oberweis at every opportunity.
It also appears that liberal GOP money is being funneled into Brady’s campaign to fund attacks against Oberweis. James Perry, Jr. of Chicago just wrote Brady a check for $10,000. He gave Brady a check for $5,000 in December.
In the past, he’s given Corinne Wood over $35,000 and supported George Ryan, Larry McKeon, and Chicago Alderman Vi Daley. If that doesn’t make you wonder who’s really behind Brady’s candidacy, nothing will.
Comment by Yellow Dog Democrat Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 10:46 am
Can I ask one thing here? Has Jack R. and his buddies ever actually tried to beat a democrat. Seems like they are always attacking Republicans. Maybe he is a democrat plant set up many years ago to help blago in his ultimate goal of world domination.
Comment by Somewhat Confused Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 12:00 pm
I agree, Brady has been a class act generally, but I expected that. I think he has the potential of an outstanding political future in Illinois. My great concern is that some of the really right wing positions he has spoken out on will come back to haunt him in future general elections, when he will be trying to talk about business climate, taxes, leadership, etc.
Comment by steve schnorf Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 2:23 pm
Anon 8:43 p.m. Thursday, Mar 16 & YDD:
Brady has attacked JBT:
“BRADY ASKS BLAGOJEVICH, TOPINKA TO STOP POLITICIZING, HIDING BEHIND ELECTION STUNTS
Sen. Bill Brady, Republican candidate for Governor, today reacted to the latest election stunts from Rod Blagojevich and Judy Baar Topinka. Blagojevich this morning said he was launching his election campaign and Topinka announced an ethics reform proposal that ignores the root of corruption problems plaguing state government.
“…Both Rod Blagojevich and Judy Baar Topinka want to hide behind blame shifting and political rhetoric while avoiding public debates which would allow the people of Illinois to really see what they stand for and would bring to the table.”
I’m sorry but that seems to be somewhat of an attack to me. The rest of the article is here: http://www.bradyforgovernor2006.com/news/
You’ll have to click on the February 2006 Archives. The date of the article is February 19.
While it’s not the glaring, silly accusations put on by Looserweis and Co, it is what some would call an attack.
Comment by Central IL Stater Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 2:24 pm
Macdougal (former IL Rep Chair) endorses Oberweis!!
Comment by ANON Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 3:49 pm
Well MacDougal was ousted by the JBT folks/Kjellander if i recall right. Bi-Polarweis9Tm) has been the most outspoken critic of Bob K.
I may understand the “thinking” of Ftn, clean up your own house before you clean up oters’. The problem with that is that there is always room for some level of disagreement with rational people. Those folks are the all or none type.
Comment by Wumpus Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 6:50 pm
Central stater, Yeah Brady one mean hombre pointing out a gimmick Topinka’s using. That’s a whole lot like obie lying and saying Brady voted for a tax increase that had not happened yet. because Obie and his political staff aren’t smart enough to run an election let alone the State.
Comment by Anon Friday, Mar 17, 06 @ 10:58 pm
YDD:
It appears there are at least three different “James Perry” contributors listed on the Board of Elections website, but why should facts like that stand in the way of an opportunity for you to bash Brady? Oberweis supporter or not, your tactics appear to be pretty much the same.
Comment by Anonymous Saturday, Mar 18, 06 @ 7:15 am
In truth it is Jack Roeser splitting the conservative vote. Ask Roeser to explain why he backed the liberal Jesse White for Secretary of State? He’s full of hot air, nothing more. He’s a CINO (conservative in name only). Oh Jack, why don’t you pay your fines to the board of election. If you don’t that isn’t very fiscally conservative of you.
Comment by reagandude Saturday, Mar 18, 06 @ 9:38 am
ay, ay, ay …
so one day obe’s people claim brady is “too extreme” in his conservatism. the next day they claim he is “too liberal” … so which is it?
i’ll give you that brady has some strong, conservative personal convictions and opinions. he doesn’t shy away from those. but i also believe he has shown an ability and willingness to work with people who don’t share all the same views - that’s what we need in a leader.
it’s obe who has changed his personal convictions in the past few years … if anyone has an identity crisis, it’s jim. but please don’t project that identity crisis on others.
i don’t agree with all of bill’s positions, but i support him in his run for governor. and if anyone is splitting the cons. vote or keeping anyone from being elected, it’s the stagnant and spoiled milkman up in sugar grove.
regarding brady’s “attacks” … really? i think there is a difference between smear-campaigns/mudslinging and calling out an opponent on an issue or their view … fake headlines and distorted truths are attacks … character assassination is an attack … calling on opponents to do things the right way? hmm … not an attack in my book.
Comment by YNM Saturday, Mar 18, 06 @ 11:21 am
I’ve known BB for over 15 years. It is well known locally that he has always wanted to be Da Gov. It’s also well known by those who know him better, that he can barely decide to take a dump without checking with his inner circle first.(Inner circle being brothers, mom, and a few friends since childhood). Billy isn’t in it for “the people”, or anything so noble, he is in it for Billy (just like most politicians). Billy has never stood by his convictions unless it is what will get him the most votes. Populism as it’s finest.
Comment by Jaded Monday, Mar 20, 06 @ 10:08 pm