Sunday endorsements and a few other things
Sunday, Mar 5, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller · Check out this at the bottom of today’s Sun-Times endorsement of Judy Baar Topinka: This endorsement represents the view of the Sun-Times News Group of 100 newspapers in the Chicago metro area. That’s a lot of papers. The Southtown, all of the Star papers and the Pioneer Press papers, as well as the Joliet Herald News, Aurora Beacon News, Elgin Courier News, Waukegan News Sun and the Naperville Sun. Jim Ryan has also endorsed JBT. When he was attorney general, Ryan blocked a plan Topinka supported that would have let two hotel companies with political connections settle more than $40 million in debt to the state for just $10 million. · As promised yesterday, here’s the Tribune’s endorsement of Ron Gidwitz. · Daily Herald endorses Blagojevich, Giannoulias, and runs a play to play story. · Champaign News-Gazette endorses Bill Brady and Edwin Eisendrath. · Tribune and Sun-Times both have profiles of Edwin Eisendrath. Sun-Times has a profile of Gov. Blagojevich, which asks if he is a team player. Heh. · Kristen McQueary discovers whom the governor really blames for not knowing that The Daily Show is a comedy thing. “I’m not so sure I would have done the interview. The deputy governor (Bradley Tusk) takes responsibility, as well he should, because he’s the one who didn’t tell me.” · Somebody has snatched three James Meeks for Governor-related website addresses and pointed them all to a Meeks-related blog. (Hat tip: OneMan) · Oberweis capitulates, changes controversial TV ads. From Bernie’s column: In a column last week, I quoted DOUG BOHRINGER, president of Springfield-based Omni Communications Group, about ads for JIM OBERWEIS that referred to newspaper stories but included headlines that actually didn’t appear in the newspapers cited. But Bohringer now admits he wasn’t clear enough. UPDATE: More on Meeks, from a longtime reader: …by the way reading your meeks stuff, [redacted] and I watched his service this morning which is broadcast on local cable, I tell you from his sermon that guy is running, it was quite a bashing of both GOP and DEMs, he really had the place rocking […]
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