Split decision - and misc. weekend political stuff
Saturday, Mar 4, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller No links yet, but the Sunday edition of the Tribune has a Gidwitz endorsemnt and the Sunday Sun-Times endorses Topinka. Steve Rauschenberger was endorsed by both papers. Neither paper apparently endorsed in the Democratic guv primary. I’ll put the links up tomorrow. (The AP now has a story.) UPDATES: · More to come on the Eisendrath TV buy. Stay tuned. · Bill Brady just took out a bank loan for $250,000. · Post-Dispatch story points out that a verdict decision for George Ryan could happen right before primary day, and wonders how that might impact the race. · Blagojevich defends ethics record. · FactCheck.org rips Oberweis a new one for his anti-JBT ads. On the charge that JBT is “under investigation,” the Annenberg Center writes: That falsely implies that she is currently under investigation on the old document-destruction matter, which is false. In fact, it is doubtful that any investigation is still open. And on the hotel deal allegations, they write: The deal may be viewed as “bad,” as Ryan concluded at the time, but there were no indications or serious allegations of any foul play. · Claypool takes early voting to court. · Joe Birkett STILL hasn’t returned all the money he received from an alleged anti-Semite in the 2002 campaign. Birkett vowed to return all the money before election day, but didn’t pay off a loan until months later and still hasn’t given back the direct contribution. UPDATE 2: My great pal Jerry Clarke was just profiled by the AP. Nineteen months in Iraq spread over two tours of duty. Two Bronze Stars. The commander of 15 pilots who himself flew some 600 hours in a combat theater in a single year.
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