DC games
Tuesday, Sep 22, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Yesterday on Illinois Review…
Pro-Lifers Feeling Betrayed by Sen. Kirk’s Refusal to Defund Planned Parenthood
Life activists are putting pressure on U.S. Senator Mark Kirk and other members of Congress to end the 500 million dollar plus taxpayer subsidy to Planned Parenthood.
Kirk has been blasted for that vote… from both sides…
Um, huh?
* The above is part of a digital ad campaign being run by the DSCC here…
“With just 10 days left before a potential government shutdown, Mark Kirk has yet to show that he will stand up against more Republican shutdown politics,” DSCC National Press Secretary Sadie Weiner said in a release that accompanied announcement of the ads.
But Kirk was the only Republican Senator who voted against de-funding in a Senate test vote in August. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell also did, but only for procedural purposes to give him the ability to take up the bill at a later date.
“Yet another ad from outside partisan groups that is short on facts and lacking any credibility,” Kirk campaign manager Kevin Artl said. He said Kirk “continues to answer the call for independent leadership by breaking from his party to support women’s access to health care and opposing efforts to shut down the government.”
Kirk’s re-election campaign also released a statement from Carole Brite, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois, saying they “were able to count on the leadership of Senator Mark Kirk who wisely voted against de-funding Planned Parenthood.”
Drop the stupid ads, already.
* Meanwhile, Joe Walsh is apparently taking yet another look at the 14th CD…
Déjà vu? Top GOP sources say former congressman Joe Walsh of Mundelein is considering a primary bid against U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren of Plano in the 14th Congressional District next spring. […]
Hultgren’s staff is actively preparing for the scenario, and campaign workers for both Walsh and Hultgren were reportedly collecting petition signatures at a McHenry County Republican Party fundraiser last week.
But IR checked in with Walsh…
“Are you, or someone on your behalf, circulating petitions to challenge Hultgren in the 14th CD?”
Walsh’s response via text was four letters: “Nope.”
* More stuff…
State Sen. Mike Noland of Elgin was endorsed by the Illinois Federation of Teachers last week despite his past comment that strikes were “embarrassing” and his receipt of campaign cash from Stand For Children, a group that helped muscle in a 2011 law to make it tougher to get teacher tenure.
Noland is making a Democratic bid for Duckworth’s seat as she wages a battle for U.S. Senate. He’ll compete in the primary against businessman Raja Krishnamoorthi of Schaumburg and Villa Park Mayor Deborah Bullwinkel.
The Noland quote about strikes being “embarrassing” is here.
* And speaking of pretty old news…
Former Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Ill., lost another high-profile endorser over his opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, with former Sen. Adlai Stevenson III, D-Ill., switching to his Democratic primary rival, Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering.
Stevenson joins Abner Mikva — a former House member, Bill Clinton White House counsel and federal judge — in dropping Schneider over the Iran nuclear agreement.
Rotering and Schneider are in a battle to take on Rep. Bob Dold, R-Ill., in the north suburban swing 10th Congressional District.
Stevenson is a member of one of the most famous Democratic political families in Illinois with deep ties to the 10th district. His great-grandfather was Vice President Adlai Ewing Stevenson.
The Adlai E. Stevenson II High School in Lincolnshire, a major high school in the district, is named after the former senator’s father, who ran for president in 1952 and 1956 after serving as Illinois governor and United Nations ambassador.
- Track312 - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:22 pm:
It’s going to be great to watch a young military veteran like Mike Noland fill Tammy Duckworth’s seat in Congress. Neither of his opponents ever served in the military.
- Cheswick - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:29 pm:
The DSCC ads are pre-emptive in anticipation of the huge push by Republicans to blame Obama for a shut-down over Planned Parenthood probably.
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:29 pm:
=== to watch a young military veteran===
Young?
That’s pretty funny. You must be pretty old.
- Demoralized - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:33 pm:
==Neither of his opponents ever served in the military==
Is that a requirement?
- The Way I See It - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:01 pm:
Part of me hopes that Joe Walsh goes back to Congress so that we don’t have to listen to him here in Chicago anymore.
My guess is that that Joe won’t be able to give up the cash he is making on his radio gig, unless he is really pining to be a Fox News talking head in which case he may need a little more time in Congress.
- Cable Line Beer Gardener - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:03 pm:
If Walsh said nope, does that mean he polled terribly in a robo poll conducted about a month ago? Oddest call, as it wanted favorable or unfavorable opinion of Boehner, Hultgren and Walsh. First time I can remember answering the questions honestly.
- take that - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:10 pm:
@the Way I See it
You mean Walsh’s paid program on the paid programming station also known as the low-rated WIND?
- DuPage Saint - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:10 pm:
Boy losing Adlai’s endorsement must hurt Where does Lar “America First” Daley stand? Both are about as relevant
- Wordslinger - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:39 pm:
These DC committees have phone-it-in, D-List talent. If they were any good, they’d be doing something else. They’re grifters.
Speaking of grifters, the Ricketts Family and the Bubble Wrap King of Kenosha might want to file a consumer complaint with the AG as to how they got scammed by the Great Cheesehead Hope in his 71-day campaign to Save America from Something.
It’s reported the Ricketts were into him for at least $6 million. The unintimadated Walker didn’t stick around long enough to file any paperwork, but you can be sure Uline went large, as he has in the past.
Maybe the Bubble Wrap King came out ahead with the millions in sweet Cheesehead corporate welfare Walker gave him.
For the Ricketts, $6 million could have got you a stud closer before the trading deadline.
Despite Walker’s selfless and tragic sacrifice to abandon his less than 1% likely GOP voter support, hopefully, the dream to build a fence to keep out the Canadian horde will live on.
Heckuva a role model you have there, governor.
- Ghost - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:00 pm:
Planned parenthood has been very sucessful with stoping pregnancies by distributing contraceptives. Many of these folks complain about providing welfare benefits, food and medicine for kids, but they want to defund the group that has succesfully reducd the number of pregnancies and thus kids neding welfare assitance? This is like banning vacinations because we no longer see the diseases the vaccines are keeping in check…. Defund planned parenthood and tou will cet an increase in people needing welfare
- Responsa - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:01 pm:
I don’t say this very often but in this instance with regard to his opposition to the administration’s Iran “deal” Brad is clearly in sync with 10th district voters (and Congressman Dold).
- illini - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 9:25 pm:
Wordslinger - good point!
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 9:51 pm:
Why the heck would we nominate a Democrat — again — who undermines his own president on foreign policy?
Schneider has proven time-and-again he is too unsteady, too unreliable.
- VanillaMan - Wednesday, Sep 23, 15 @ 7:49 am:
If Kirk is upsetting extremists in both parties, then he must be correct.
- Ahoy! - Wednesday, Sep 23, 15 @ 8:42 am:
Why are self proclaimed “pro-lifers” feeling betrayed? Betrayal means you thought someone was in your camp already.