Brady picks Rodriguez
Tuesday, Sep 17, 2013 - Posted by Rich Miller
* I told subscribers about this last night…
* More…
Rodriguez (53) is the former Village President of Long Grove, Illinois, and was a 2010 GOP candidate for the Congress in the 8th CD, losing in the primary to former Congressman Joe Walsh.
During her 2010 bid, Rodriguez was endorsed by conservative groups such as Concerned Women for America (CWA), Eagle Forum PAC, Susan B. Anthony and Illinois Pro Life Federation Federal. She was also endorsed by the Sun-Times and the Daily Herald.
Following her 2010 campaign, she was Executive Director of Adam Andrzejewski’s For the Good of Illinois.
* Here she is speaking at a 2010 tea party rally…
Not the greatest public speaker, but that could change.
Despite her surname, Rodriguez is not a Latina. But this still has the potential to be a dramatic pick for Brady.
* And here’s a photo of Brady and Rodriguez from a 2010 Family PAC event…
Shall we welcome her to the race with a caption contest?
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:26 am:
“Bill, Adam wants you to know, you are making a very … wise … choice.”
- SAP - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:27 am:
No Maria, don’t start talking until I put the glass to my mouth.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:27 am:
“All eight precincts in Long Grove … are going to go Brady/Rodriguez let me tell you …”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:29 am:
Charlie O’Neill watches Maria Rodriguez explain to Bill Brady about the positives of Adam A.
- OneMan - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:29 am:
Dude in the hat thinking, you know what Brady needs, protection from his right flank thought no one ever…
- Darienite - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:29 am:
From the guy in the back: “That gin and tonic looks good; think I’ll have me on of them”
Clever move on Brady’s part to partner with someone to attract Hispanic voters, even though she is not Hispanic. Wonder what her thoughts are on immigrant reform.
- too obvious - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:30 am:
I’m not really Hispanic and you don’t really care about Hispanics, so we’ll be a perfect team!
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:31 am:
“Bill, I think you are mistaken, you pick me first, then you ask if I am going to give you money…”
- Lakewood-Balmoral - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:32 am:
“Four words: Illinois’ Sarah Palin”
- Ron Burgundy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:33 am:
“No, I am not related to the famous golfer Chai Chai Rod-rig-gweez.”
- too obvious - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:33 am:
BTW, I’ve heard Adam A. is with Rauner.
- Skeeter - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:35 am:
Bill Brady, hearing the compelling pitch that his biggest problem in 2010 was that his campaign did not do enough to reach out to angry white extremely conservative late middle aged people.
- CircularFiringSquad - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:35 am:
Honey, would you get me another vodka and soda? Wwith a lime this time?. Not lemon!
Maybe you need a pad and pencil to get the orders right
Oh, how about joining my doomed campaign for governor? Wait till the whack jobs find out I picked a Hispanic (tee hee and then we tell ‘em you’re not)
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:37 am:
IF there’s a next time, I want a corsage, not a name tag.
- Snucka - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:39 am:
A Tea Partier? Really?
- A. Nonymous - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:40 am:
Everyone can go home now… Lakewood-Balmoral just won every caption contest for the entire week with that 9:32 post.
“Four words…”
You owe me a screen and a keyboard pal!
- Ron Burgundy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:41 am:
In an attempt to prove how tough and ruthless she can be on the campaign trail, Maria Rodriguez gives some random guy a purple nurple right in front of gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:42 am:
“I think, if you look at it, the Tea Party agrees with you. You just need someone to give you that “purity” with them too…”
- Anonymour - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:43 am:
#fakejasonplummer: “No! Uncle Bill! You promised! Noooo!”
- TwoFeetThick - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:43 am:
“Right here. This. With my tea party background, this is our chance of winning.”
- Mister Whipple - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:44 am:
I never thought I could meet someone who could run to the right of me. Heaven, this must be heaven. Here’s looking at you, Kid…
- walkinfool - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:44 am:
Brilliant to get a suburbanite woman.
Not so great to get a narrow-focused conservative. She adds no depth.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:45 am:
Rodriguez: “Tell me again what you bring to the ticket.”
- A guy... - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:49 am:
“Maria…Say it loud and there’s music playing. Say it soft and it’s almost like praying”. Better say it soft…alot.
- Skeeter - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:50 am:
“I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn’t even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the state like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Quinn. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Patrick Quinn’s memory any more than being back in Chicago was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.”
- x ace - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:51 am:
” Gun Hand with Finger on Trigger at Family Pac makes Darn Sure She Ain’t Touting Fair Wages For Farm Workers “
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:54 am:
“Now, I can get Sean Hannity here for you, whenever, and I kept a bunch of “Fire Madigan” shirts, just in case … so I think this could work.”
- walkinfool - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:55 am:
“The next Jan Brewer”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:56 am:
“What I bring is the ’softer’ side to the Tea party you are going to need to win…”
- Skeeter - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:58 am:
For those wondering — the photo was taken on a boat on Lake Michigan, just east of the Ogden Slip. It is across Illinois Street from Lake Point Tower.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 9:58 am:
“I don’t know if you have seen me campaign, I usually talk so much, about so much, and scatter the finger-pointing so much, usually people walk away with neither a positive or a negative about me…”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 10:04 am:
“Last time, you had to hide Jason in the southern border counties… this time, you hide me in the northern counties that border Wisconsin…”
- Ahoy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 10:10 am:
Yes Mr. Brady, I can help you win both conservative women that didn’t vote for you last time.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 10:14 am:
“My ‘Adam’ connection is really going to be a ‘plus’, you need to really hammer that because Adam is a Rock Star, and ‘we’ got like 200 people to watch his announcement of not doing anything …”
- Nearly Normal - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 10:15 am:
You call me Jason one more time and I am out of here!!
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 10:16 am:
“I am Terry Coscrove’s nightmare …”
- VJ - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 10:16 am:
Bill, you and I will be one heckuva team. You know those middle of the road suburban women who do not support the right, well, they still won’t vote for us but we are going to have a good time.
- VJ - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 10:17 am:
Maria/Sarah:
But how am I polling in Long Grove?
- Nearly Normal - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 10:17 am:
Just call me the northern Illinois Phyllis Schafly.
- siriusly - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 10:20 am:
Senator, I would be honored to join your ticket but you have to promise me that you won’t wear that tie again. Even that guy is staring at it.
- Norseman - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 10:33 am:
Bill, no habla Española. For the 10th time, I can’t make that Hispanic targeted commercial in Spanish.
- Norseman - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 10:34 am:
Oops, it should have been Español. Darn auto-spellers.
- Rufus - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 10:39 am:
‘I don’ care if you can’t smell Vodka, you gotta stop drinking at these events!”
- to Rich - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 11:00 am:
If she is not Latina, then what is she? What is your source of her not being Latina?
- Rolo Tomassi II - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 11:02 am:
Brady- “Should I pour the drink on her head now or later.”
- Mcleaniac - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 11:09 am:
“Sen. Brady I would appreciate it if you would take your eyes off of my chest and LISTEN to my Ideas !”
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 11:10 am:
===then what is she?===
It’s her married name.
- Skeeter - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 11:24 am:
“Rodriguez, eh? As soon as you get me a long form copy of your birth certificate, we can start preparing the petitions. Welcome to the team. Conditionally.”
- tominchicago - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 11:33 am:
“My name recognition throughout the State is about thissss big.”
- Brendan - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 11:46 am:
“My eyes are up here, Senator.”
- Nearly Normal - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 12:37 pm:
“Quit grumbling, Bill, and drink your Tea Party Kool Aid!”
Seriously, does Brady think he is going to win over us Moderate Republicans with a Tea Partier for Veep?
Give it up, Bill. Your train left the Amtrak station in Uptown Normal four years ago and you missed it!
- Amuzing Myself - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 12:40 pm:
“Now, the first day we’ll get shredding on the one guy’s blog, but it doesn’t matter, because none of them were ever voting for you anyway.”
Good choice by Brady. Funny how no one talks about how conservative Jill Tracy and Sue Rezin are. Brady will get hammered on the pro-life stuff in a general anyway. He lost by such a small margin last time with Plummer on the ticket with him, this is a big improvement. She can even speak without long moments of awkward silence. Bonus!
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 1:15 pm:
I’m not Hispanic, but my last name is Rodriguez and I did stat at a Holiday Inn Expess last night!
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 1:22 pm:
Not quite-I’m married to a Hispanic. Again, and I’ll say this slowly, my husband has a Hispanic name. My name is Maria, yes, but I’m named after my grandmother, Maria Schwitcklwitz. No. That’s not a Hispanic name. No, I was born here in the US, and the Birther issue isn’t relevant in Illinois.
No. Quinn is an Irish name. Like yours.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 1:23 pm:
“You tell that ‘Scott Kim’ I look forward to proving who is the best #2.”
If the question is, “Who is ready to take over, and BE Governor of the State of Illinois” … I guess if Steve Kim and Maria Rodriguez could be “co-Governors”, you might have a chance.
Good move getting a foothold in Lake County, if Rodriguez can deliver real votes, and nicely done getting someone with governmental executive experience, but an 8 Precinct Muni, and being the Executive Director for Adam A., and losing to Joe Walsh while being a Tea Partier?
Could have done … worse?
Could have done … better.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 1:24 pm:
Habla NO Espanol!
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 1:41 pm:
We all should congratulate Patti Bellock,
At the 4:01 mark, she became a Congresswoman!
Way to go.
- Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 1:46 pm:
“Bill, it’s a little early in the day for drinking games, don’t ya think?”
- Six Degrees of Separation - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 2:35 pm:
Billy Bob and the Long Grove snob.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 2:50 pm:
Senator Brady’s body man interrupts the Senator to advise him several puppies just escaped from a downtown shelter.
- Big Muddy - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 3:45 pm:
Dagnnabbit! I was soooo hoping it was Ives. That would have given us six months of material that you just couldn’t make up. Confederate puppies and weasels living together… oh the eye watering laughter we will be missing. Who knows, we still might get it anyway.
That and it would have reduced the membership in Slytherin.
- Dirty Red - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 3:58 pm:
“There is no spoon?”
- DanL60 - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 5:01 pm:
Biggest fish in a tiny pond. Finished a distant 3rd in ‘10 to Walsh.
Brady must be hell bent to prove something. ‘How to finish 5th in a four candidate primary’ has the inside track so far.
- Downstater - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 5:04 pm:
While she does not seem to be a compelling choice for the second sport on the ticket, she is from the Suburbs; an area Brady needs to perform better in this time around if he is going to make up the large Cook County backing Governor Quinn can expect for him next November. On balance, she seems neither to harm nor especially help Brady’s chances in 2014. Happy Constitution Day!
- Just The Way It Is One - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 7:42 pm:
I’m not sure, as she’s not ACtually Hispanic, how much this will really help him, as it EVen seems a bit disingenuous. However, he will benefit at least somewhat from having a respectable Woman/Former Public Official from the Collar County Area of Chicagoland on the Ticket no matter what…
- anon620 - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 7:59 pm:
How dare Bill Brady say Dillard and Rauner have “Rino” problems? Brady has HUGE ultra-right wing problems that are hurt even more by his selection of an ultra-right wing running mate. That duo will never attract mainstream Illinois residents or moderate women voters.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 8:05 pm:
lol Seriously, anon620? That’s where all of “this” is going? (Or, I guess is supposed to go?)
Yawn.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Sep 17, 13 @ 10:43 pm:
BB: “So, you’re like a Natalie Wood in “West Side Story” kind of Maria? I’ll drink to that….”