Never a dull moment
Friday, Dec 4, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller
* September 5, 2013…
A woman accused of repeatedly trying to contact actor John Cusack was charged today with stalking.
Elizabeth Diane Pahlke, 45, was scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon in Van Nuys Superior Court on the charge alleging that she stalked Cusack between Oct. 1, 2010, and Tuesday, when she was arrested by deputies from the Lost Hills/Malibu sheriff’s station.
Pahlke was already subject to a restraining order recently obtained by Cusack, who she’s allegedly tried to contact through text messages and Twitter for nearly three years, according to the criminal complaint.
Pahlke is accused of flying from Illinois to Los Angeles, going to Cusack’s home and following him to a restaurant, where she approached him, according to Shiara Davila-Morales of the District Attorney’s Office.
* Earlier this week…
In the U.S. Senate race, Republican Sen. Mark Kirk gained Republican challenger Elizabeth Diane Pahlke on Monday.
More…
Elizabeth Pahlke of Arlington Heights ran unsuccessfully as an independent candidate in the 2013 special election for the 2nd congressional district once held by ex-U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
* Illinois Review today…
In what is likely to be a first, the Illinois Board of Elections is going through nominating petition pages upon which Republican U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Diane Pahlke glued leaves, grass and bird droppings.
Pahlke’s reason for attaching these natural visual aids?
“The mud, grass & leaves & bird signatures represent the bad decisions that were made from developers & politicians that stole from our land”
To be clear, nobody has yet reported that candidate Elizabeth Diane Pahlke is the Illinois resident Elizabeth Diane Pahlke who allegedly stalked Cusack.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:03 pm:
Unless Kirk can knock off the Oswego resident that also filed, keeping her on the ballot with all three “helps” Kirk, neutralizes the Oswego resident by being overshadowed by the alleged stalker.
More the merrier in the most bizarre twist…
- Michelle Flaherty - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:04 pm:
U.S. Senate?
That’s too bad.
She’s a much better fit for the Illinois State Senate Republican caucus.
- Gruntled University Employee - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:05 pm:
The lengths some people will go to to signatures on their petitions. Sheesh /s
- 360 Degree TurnAround - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:06 pm:
She sounds like an IllinoisGO candidate.
- PolPal56 - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:06 pm:
Kirk: “My post-stroke quirks look pretty minor now, eh?”
- Century Club - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:08 pm:
Hey, if they’ve got real signatures on them, they’re still better than Dorothy Brown’s.
- Dread Pirate Roberts - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:08 pm:
I like how she referred to the bird droppings as the bird’s signatures…
- thunderspirit - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:09 pm:
Gruntled University Employee wins the comments today.
- 360 Degree TurnAround - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:11 pm:
To be clear, these are just ah-Cusack-ations. bahahaha.
- Linus - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:18 pm:
Have you ever tried to glue bird droppings to anything at all? That takes skill, baby.
Perhaps, in these trying times, she merits a second look ?
- internal angel - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:20 pm:
So what did The Donald glue on his Illinois Presidential signatures petitions? Surely he glued on something more original than that!
- 360 Degree TurnAround - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:20 pm:
Linus makes a good point. if you can glue bird droppings together, perhaps you could help bring Republicans and Democrats together.
- Bobby G - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:22 pm:
Such a common name.
- The Captain - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:27 pm:
Now I have to decide whether to give directly to her campaign or to just start a superPAC in her honor.
- Honeybear - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:29 pm:
well….some part of me would like to see her win.
- Speaker Madigan - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:35 pm:
Say what?!
- Just a Second... - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:38 pm:
–To be clear, nobody has yet reported that candidate Elizabeth Diane Pahlke is the Illinois resident Elizabeth Diane Pahlke who allegedly stalked Cusack.–
IL Observer reported the Pahlke-Cusack item this morning in its Kirk primary race poll story.
- AC - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:42 pm:
“The mud, grass & leaves & bird signatures represent the bad decisions that were made from developers & politicians that stole from our land”
We have serious issues with mental health in this country.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:44 pm:
===IL Observer reported the Pahlke-Cusack item===
I said reported.
I didn’t see the story until now, but it just makes an assumption.
- Six Degrees of Separation - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:46 pm:
Her LinkedIn page. “Let’s bring the HEE HAW back to country.”
https://www.linkedin.com/in/liz-pahlke-5a071ba
- Excessively Rabid - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:47 pm:
In today’s illustration of how bad the Sun Times web site is, the first thing I get when I google her is a Sun Times story about whether Matt Forte is still the Bears’ starting RB. There is a little dealie on the page with the Forte story that I can click to see more stories about her, which is apparently generated by the search term, which apparently doesn’t do anything at all on that site, which is about what I would have expected. At least it’s smart enough to know that what I really want is Bears news.
- Bogey Golfer - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:50 pm:
And why do I think she may be against the IL 53 extension into Lake Co………..
- Anonymous - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:51 pm:
she is not the same person, sounds like just as wacky
- train111 - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:54 pm:
She may have used bird droppings for signatures-but at least
they were produced by a live being–more that I could say for a lot of Cook County Dem petition signatures
- Adlai down your arms - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:57 pm:
It’s spelled “Elizabeth Diane Pahlke” and pronounced “Mark J. Fairchild”
- Get a Job!! - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 2:23 pm:
“If I just become a US Senator, then John Cusack will notice me!”
- Shark Sandwich - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 2:24 pm:
This is Gross. Pointe Blank, some people will Say Anything on the filing forms.
- Missing G - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 2:35 pm:
With a platform like “I love John Cusak”, her election is a Sure Thing and she’ll soon be America’s Sweetheart. I really hope the name similarity is more than Serendipity.
… Hot Tub Time Machine
- Minnie - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 2:36 pm:
don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that.
- wordslinger - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 2:38 pm:
Cusack has one fan, at least.
- Capitol View - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 2:54 pm:
This is why I have ceased telling my out of state friends and relatives about Illinois politics. Just when it seems it can’t any more bizarre, we have a new special interest expressing itself in campaigns - sparrows.
- BluegrassBoy - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 3:03 pm:
She might notch 30%+ against Kirk.
- Third Reading - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 3:07 pm:
More info:
http://www.elizabethdianepahlkeussenate.com/about.html
I’m outta here.
- walker - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 3:36 pm:
We’re used to deciphering chicken scratches, but this?
- JoanP - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 3:39 pm:
Her LinkedIn page also says, ” let’s not forget Hollywood”.
I think that increases the chances that it’s the same Liz Pahlke!
- Apocalypse Now - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 3:43 pm:
She sounds crazy enough to be a Democrat.
- titan - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 4:01 pm:
The candidate’s pictures do look a lot like the mugshots online.
- PolPal56 - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 4:13 pm:
You can call Democrats a lot of things, but crazy isn’t one of them. The Republicans definitely have the market cornered on crazy.
- Anonymous - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 4:31 pm:
PolPal56:
Hah! May I remind you of a former now incarcerated Governor… I think he might be a wee bit crazy!
- Buddy - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 4:40 pm:
John could do worse.
- cover - Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 4:41 pm:
Shark Sandwich @ 2:24pm FTW!