27 Comments - Me - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 8:43 am: Spanish ad very lame…talks about how Quinn has worked for “our” community for more than 30 years, reducing the cost of electricity and water, helping schools and creating jobs, saving Higher education Scholarships, blah, blah, blah…. I guess Quinn fixed everything already according to US Rep. Gutierrez!!! - Justice - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 8:52 am: Say….was that an American flag Pat Quinn was waving in that parade…? Nope, it wasn’t. Must have forgotten what American citizenship and support means? - A.B. - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 8:52 am: Nice attack piece against AG. It targets Chicago and the inner suburbs with the landscape it uses. Should play well in the battle ground and a bit in AG’s backyard. - wordslinger - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 8:54 am: The NRSC ad is certainly interesting to look at and has some memorability. I guess it’s just a Chicago ad, right? Basic, straightforward message. I give it a 7. In a gesture to bipartisanship, maybe Brady should cut a spot for Alexi, and vice versa, explaining why it’s okay they didn’t pay taxes. The Dold spot is just a litany of tired platitudes. I give it a 3. It would be a zero, except for the humor in the cranky old man. Better than his lame, garage band radio spots. Speaking of cranky old men, if I make it to 87, I hope I can still get ramped up like old Jack. I half expected him to say “When I was a boy, we didn’t have clean air and water…. and we liked it! we loved it!” like the old Dana Carvey bit on SNL. Cool bolo tie. - frustrated GOP - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 8:57 am: on the Keats infomercial. Is he running for gov. or Cook County president? I guess in all of cook county they can’t find anyone that can vote for him to actually be in the infomercial. Only a white guy to say “I hear those people really like him” W - JB - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 9:04 am: If you actually listen to the whole clip of Alexi saying that he wants to “raise taxes” you will also see that he wants to complement the income tax increase with a property tax decrease to bring more equality to the funding of our state’s education system. One of the necessary solutions for real education reform and equality. This is one of the many reasons why our education system will never get fixed. If every time a politician calls for this solid policy position their words get taken out of context, few politicians will stand by the position. Our state has real problems and only good policy is going is going to help move us in the right direction. Rich-you should put the whole clip side by side with this misleading ad - wordslinger - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 9:06 am: Justice, well done. Way to blow the lid off Quinn’s subversive anti-Americanism. And it was so easy for you to go there! I counted only five Stars and Stripes in the 30-second spot, plus the Illinois flag. But then Quinn reveals his true colors, so to speak: Waving a Puerto Rican flag (part of the U.S., but…) in one ethnic parade, and a Mexican flag in another ethnic parade. You’d never see politicians waving Italian flags at the Columbus Day Parade or Irish flags at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, or Polish flags at Taste of Polonia. That would be un-American, right? - South Side Mike - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 9:12 am: Justice, Nice pick-up on the Mexian flag. That could cause him even more problems in downstate and some suburbs if Brady can find more footage of that parade. Please note, I am not suggesting that Quinn is un-American or hates the United States or anything like that. However, there are many people in Chicago, the Chicago burbs, and downstate who have issues with illegal immigration (and no issues with brown skin) and would not appreciate a politician waving a foreign flag like that. Brady could capitalize on this unease by featuring Quinn waving a Mexican flag for a few seconds during an otherwise routine attack ad. The subliminal effect of that scene would be equivalent to almost another full ad. - South Side Mike - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 9:19 am: word, you posted while I was replying. You’re right, there is probably a double standard for the Italian and especially Irish flags being waved by politicians during parades. Fair? Probably not. Is Quinn anti-US? Definitely not. But, there are always tensions with new immigration groups, especially when a sizable portion of that group have questionable legal status. It could be good POLITICS to subliminally play this up. The ethics of such a move is another question. - shore - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 9:28 am: nrsc ad is the best. very slick and simple message. - Anon - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 9:32 am: I like the line in the Dold ad “we gotta get it right this time” Guess that’s a thinly veiled shot at liar-boy Kirk. - Small Town Liberal - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 9:32 am: South Side Mike - Yeah, I’m sure they made this video without considering whether the benefit of ginning up hispanic support outweighed the risk of offending right wing bigots. Guess what, anyone who would be offended isn’t voting for Quinn anyway. I hope you charge a fee for your political consulting. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 9:32 am: ===Brady could capitalize on this unease by featuring Quinn waving a Mexican flag=== Don’t be stupid. Brady is actively courting the Latino vote. He wouldn’t do that, unless he wanted to undercut his own months-long work. Now that would be stupid. - wordslinger - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 9:33 am: –But, there are always tensions with new immigration groups, especially when a sizable portion of that group have questionable legal status– Are you talking about the Irish or the Poles? Since a good chunk of the United States used to be Mexico, I’m not sure immigrants from there qualify as “new.” As far as subliminal ad messages, I have better material for you. I have it on good authority that Quinn has been seen standing at attention with his hand on his heart facing the Maple Leaf during the playing of “O, Canada” when the Jays are at Cominskey, and numerous times during Blackhawk games at the United Center. They won’t rest until we’re all eating that thick bacon for breakfast, not just on pizza. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 9:38 am: Blame Canada! - Davey Boy Smithe - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 9:42 am: Is Quinn going to be a Mountie for Halloween? - Bill F. - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 9:45 am: “Is Quinn going to be a Mountie for Halloween? ” Dudley Do-Right? - Me - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 9:49 am: Very interesting arguments going on here on the Mexican and/or Puerto Rican flag, but this is not Arizona nor the Governorship has anything to do with immigration. I feel dismayed that despite the fact that we’re in a serious and stagnant economic quandary we’re only left with exceptionally poor choices to lead us out of the problem. Heaven help us!!!! - QBF - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 10:39 am: When we peel back the nonsensical platitudes, we’re left with the same old right wing extremism… pure bigotry. Who are these Brady people? - just sayin' - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 11:35 am: How can you have people who don’t live in Cook in a video for a guy running for Cook County Bd President? Just dumb. Is Keats even still running? Seeing nothing from his campaign. - justsickofit - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 1:14 pm: Just a word about Dold/Seals. I don’t live in that neck of the woods, so haven’t paid much attention, but I caught a commercial on the radio one day that said something like — a fiscal conservative and a social moderate. Both hubby and I said — who is this guy? On CNN today, it was asked — do the social moderate to liberals/fiscal conservatives even have a party? I have said for a very long time, that we do not, and I have believed that we are the majority of Americans. I think there is a resonance here that Dold, evidently, is tapping. - ANON - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 2:57 pm: ==I guess it’s just a Chicago ad, right?== Those images could also reinforce the image of Giannoulias as a “Chicago politician”, so I could see it playing throughout the State. - wordslinger - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 3:03 pm: –Those images could also reinforce the image of Giannoulias as a “Chicago politician”, so I could see it playing throughout the State.– Hadn’t occurred to me. I’ll buy that. - overcooked - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 4:07 pm: Roger, the best you can do is have some guy say, “his opponent has a history of shaky things?” I liked the history lesson, but the blue banner and the condescending pronunciation of Preckwinkle makes this a buffoonish effort. - kirk constituent - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 5:58 pm: justsickofit - dold is SO not a social moderate. he says he is, but a very quick check of his statements, endorsements, and postings (some of which he took down from his site and facebook page), reveals his true, very conservative colors. he is not pro-choice, he’s anti-environment, and all the organizations working for those causes endorse dan seals. - X None of the Above - Tuesday, Oct 19, 10 @ 10:27 pm: The entire GOP Cook County ticket is a disgusting joke…they have raised NO money - and consequently have made NO effort, and will make a pathetic showing even in this very, very favorable year. - davey - Saturday, Oct 23, 10 @ 9:37 am: The Dold radio commercials are actually funny. Been hearing them on the Score. They really stand out for political ads. And they toast Seals pretty good. And I think that earlier poster was on to something. Fiscal conservative and social moderate. My guess is a big chunk of the population is exactly that. And Dold’s the first guy to match up with those values. Since the Dold stuff has been out, I hear Seals is acting like he’s moving in that direction. What a leader. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.