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Morning shorts - UPDATED x2
Friday, Mar 24, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller · My latest Sun-Times column: I’d get a kick booting these losers into the next state. If you’re mentioned, try to remember that we’re just having a little fun. · Oops! Road help line a tawdry hookup line · Ban on dorm smoking OKd by House, goes to gov · “To hear the 8th District congressional contenders preach it, the general election battle for the hotly-contested, Northwest suburban seat is a bout between independents.” · Committee seeks study of wind turbines’ effects on birds · Zinga update. · Another take on the 6th CD primary. UPDATES: · “Almanac of Illinois Politics 2006†includes a section on blogs · Fritchey muses about who gets Stroger’s spot. Emil Jones or Jesse White. · Political odds. · Elginites defeated. · Cook County GOP finds improprieties · The Shadow rates post-election parties. · IlliniPundit looks ahead. · I disagree, for obvious reasons. lol · Friday beer blogging. UPDATE 2: · Families with autistic children demand broader coverage for All Kids plan.
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- Randall Sherman - Friday, Mar 24, 06 @ 9:07 am:
Rich, you could have included Water Reclamation Distirct Commission candidate Dean Maragos, who had the top ballot position and spent at least $400,000, only to apparently finish in sixth or seventh place out of a field of nine candidates.
It is one thing to lose narrowly, particularly in light of the turmoil caused by John Stroger’s stroke and its impact on other races (as African-American voters came out in droves to throw their support behind Stroger and black candidates running in other offices). It is quite another to spend more money in a primary for a lower-ballot office like MWRD Commissioner than anyone had prior to this year, have the extra bonus of the top ballot position and still only get about 70% of the votes needed to win one of the three nominations for the fall.
I suspect it will get worse for Maragos if he tries to run again for any office. He has been found out about his deceiving the IVI-IPO over his claim about never donating to the notorious Hispanic Democratic Organization (it only takes a few minutes to find the donation on the State Board of Elections website). So I present Dean Maragos as my addition to your list of losers.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Mar 24, 06 @ 9:12 am:
I ran out of room. lol
- Anon - Friday, Mar 24, 06 @ 12:28 pm:
It’s particularly silly to think that they’d drop someone into the County Board Presidency since you have to be a County Commissioner (with a district) to be the County Board President. There’s no reason you can’t get elected to both at the same time. but does anyone really see Emil Jones or Jesse White resigning their posts, moving to Stroger’s district, campaigning like hell and hoping to get the nod in November AND take Peraica on at the same time? Plus, this all assumes that Stroger’s going to resign both his Commissioner’s seat and his Presidency.
It’s pretty ludicrous, really. I’d put my money on someone like Moreno or Steele. Or, if Stroger resigns after his re-election, I could see it being Quigley or Suffredin. The 5 Republicans on the Board would much rather see one of the North Side Democrats than one of the South Side ones, and I could easily see a coalition of Suffredin, Claypool, Quigley, the five Republicans Commissioners and one more South Side Democrat (maybe even John Dalye) settle on a new President than I could see Steele, Moreno, Sims and the rest fighting amongst themselves to see who gets it…
- Protection by Smith & Wesson - Friday, Mar 24, 06 @ 5:31 pm:
I was please to see that IDOT was getting into the phone sex business as a way to fund highway construction projects.
- Anon - Friday, Mar 24, 06 @ 5:39 pm:
I was please to see that IDOT was getting into the phone sex business to pay for highway construction projects.