If serving in Congress turns out to be anything less than the greatest personal experience in recorded human history one of these days he’s going to actually get elected and find out he’s wasted his life chasing this white whale.
Davis can hang his hat on Gill for getting elected to the open seat in ‘12 (which was the real chance for Ds to take the seat) and would easily add another hat to the Gill rack in ‘18. Give it up, Doc.
- Collinsville Kevin - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:46 am:
Alright, listen up, ladies and gentlemen, our candidate has been running for 10 years. Average foot speed over uneven ground barring injuries is 4 miles-per-hour. That gives us a radius of six hundred miles. What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive’s name is Dr. David Gill. Go get him.
Primaries are good in they help vet candidates before a general election (although I wish Illinois would become a top 2 state). Give Gill this, he was actually the closest at beating Davis and probably would have done so without an Independent candidate in that election.
Said in another way, Gill has done way better than any DNC candidate.
Well, what did he learn from the previous five attempts? Anything? What’s he going to do differently this time that will change the outcome?
Anyone can throw away their life savings on one or more tilts at public office. But they have a saying, about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, for a reason.
He did better than any other candidate has against Davis, and collected over 10,000 signatures last year with a skeleton crew staff in a year that wasn’t great for progressives. Maybe he shouldn’t run but that’s what primaries are for if any other dem is up for the challenge. I’m sure barely losing to Rodney still eats at him. Maybe he can pull it off in an anti-Trump wave.
Fake news is what Kacich’s tweet is.
Gill only ran one time for Congress in IL-13 in 2012, finishing a mere 0.3% behind Davis. The
only other times he ran for Congress, Gill ran in a different overwhelmingly GOP District against long time incumbent, Tim Johnson.
Thus, to paint Gill as a perennial candidate, running for the 6th time for the same office only lends credence to those who say the main steam press publishes “fake news.” I’m sure
Kacich and all the anti-Gill posters were among
those brilliant prognosticators who said no way, no chance Trump can win the Presidency!
- JohnnyPyleDriver - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 1:18 pm:
I realize he gets killed here as some nutbar loony, but I can say with 100% sincerity, he’s the only candidate I’ve ever campaigned for who I felt both had a legitimate shot of winning and who I agreed with on almost every issue. I was proud of the campaign he (we) ran in 2012 and would gladly campaign for him again if I still lived in his district.
I’ll second that, JohnnyPyleDriver. David Gill performed way better than any of the Democratic establishment candidates who’ve run for that seat. Gill would have beat Davis in 2012 if the establishment hadn’t sold him down the river because he dared challenge (and crush) an utterly mediocre Durbin/AFL-CIO hack in the primary. David is extremely popular with voters; they love his authenticity, they love that he’s not an establishment politician, and they love that he’s an unapologetic economic populist. David Gill is the only person who will ever stand a chance of winning that congressional seat as a Democrat.
I don’t understand the disdain for David Gill. He’s done a lot better than the DCCC’s Ann Callis or Jim Underwood’s candidate Mark Wicklund. He beat Matt Goetten and came within a point of beating Davis. Other than him, the Democrats’ efforts in 13 have been a joke. Maybe they should be serious about beating Davis before they criticize the one guy who came really close to doing it.
- Arsenal - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:36 am:
Hooray! I was just saying today that my time isn’t wasted enough.
- QCLib - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:41 am:
This is it. This is the one. I can feel it.
- Dozer - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:42 am:
please make it stop
- Blue Bayou - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:43 am:
Which time is the charm?
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:43 am:
Anyone can run.
- Anon - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:43 am:
Try, try^5 again.
- Dooooode - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:43 am:
Hoooray!
- Red Rider - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:43 am:
Davis—–The end is near!
- OurMagician - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:44 am:
When at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, try, try again. He did get more votes against Davis than either Wicklund or Callis though.
- The Captain - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:44 am:
If serving in Congress turns out to be anything less than the greatest personal experience in recorded human history one of these days he’s going to actually get elected and find out he’s wasted his life chasing this white whale.
- Gonzo - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:45 am:
Davis can hang his hat on Gill for getting elected to the open seat in ‘12 (which was the real chance for Ds to take the seat) and would easily add another hat to the Gill rack in ‘18. Give it up, Doc.
- Collinsville Kevin - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:46 am:
Compared to Ann Callis he’s a ray of sunshine.
- Ron Burgundy - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:47 am:
What do you call someone who is now beyond a perennial candidate?
- Robert the Bruce - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:49 am:
I think we’ve found a use for term limits. 3 strikes in same race and you’re out?
- Chicago Cynic - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:53 am:
Dude, even Pat Quinn has realized enough’s enough. Time to face facts. They don’t like you and aren’t going to.
- Gonzo - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:53 am:
Ron Burgundy - “What do you call someone who is now beyond a perennial candidate?”
Maybe a “terminal” candidate would be the proper diagnosis?
- Commonsense in Illinois - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:54 am:
Whose his political director….Lar Daley?
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:56 am:
Alright, listen up, ladies and gentlemen, our candidate has been running for 10 years. Average foot speed over uneven ground barring injuries is 4 miles-per-hour. That gives us a radius of six hundred miles. What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive’s name is Dr. David Gill. Go get him.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 9:58 am:
==What do you call someone who is now beyond a perennial candidate?==
I’d say Jim Oberweiss or Pat Quinn, but they’ve occasionally won. A Sheila Simon or Andy Martin?
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 10:03 am:
“David Gill” is Downstate speak for “Dan Seals”
- Bigtwich - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 10:04 am:
Did Anthony Robert Martin-Trigona do another name change?
- Benita Butrell - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 10:07 am:
How many times did Oberweis run before he won?
- Great news - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 10:10 am:
You think Rodney Davis smiles every time this announcment is made? Perhaps Gill is on his payroll
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 10:10 am:
===How many times did Oberweis run before he won? ==
He didn’t run for the same office six times.
- Ron Burgundy - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 10:14 am:
Physician, heel thyself.
- Ahoy! - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 10:15 am:
Primaries are good in they help vet candidates before a general election (although I wish Illinois would become a top 2 state). Give Gill this, he was actually the closest at beating Davis and probably would have done so without an Independent candidate in that election.
Said in another way, Gill has done way better than any DNC candidate.
- Because - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 10:22 am:
Gill performed better than others because he was only one running against a non-incumbent Davis.
- Stark - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 10:25 am:
Gill me a break.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 10:37 am:
Well, what did he learn from the previous five attempts? Anything? What’s he going to do differently this time that will change the outcome?
Anyone can throw away their life savings on one or more tilts at public office. But they have a saying, about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, for a reason.
- PoliSciMajor - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 10:57 am:
He did better than any other candidate has against Davis, and collected over 10,000 signatures last year with a skeleton crew staff in a year that wasn’t great for progressives. Maybe he shouldn’t run but that’s what primaries are for if any other dem is up for the challenge. I’m sure barely losing to Rodney still eats at him. Maybe he can pull it off in an anti-Trump wave.
- Johnny Justice - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 11:42 am:
Fake news is what Kacich’s tweet is.
Gill only ran one time for Congress in IL-13 in 2012, finishing a mere 0.3% behind Davis. The
only other times he ran for Congress, Gill ran in a different overwhelmingly GOP District against long time incumbent, Tim Johnson.
Thus, to paint Gill as a perennial candidate, running for the 6th time for the same office only lends credence to those who say the main steam press publishes “fake news.” I’m sure
Kacich and all the anti-Gill posters were among
those brilliant prognosticators who said no way, no chance Trump can win the Presidency!
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 12:10 pm:
Loser
Loser
Loser
Loser
This time yur not geddin’ away, Wabbit!
- Keyser Soze - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 12:13 pm:
Is this a new North American record?
- Precinct Captain - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 12:41 pm:
GO AWAY!
- JohnnyPyleDriver - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 1:18 pm:
I realize he gets killed here as some nutbar loony, but I can say with 100% sincerity, he’s the only candidate I’ve ever campaigned for who I felt both had a legitimate shot of winning and who I agreed with on almost every issue. I was proud of the campaign he (we) ran in 2012 and would gladly campaign for him again if I still lived in his district.
- NotForSale - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 3:13 pm:
I’ll second that, JohnnyPyleDriver. David Gill performed way better than any of the Democratic establishment candidates who’ve run for that seat. Gill would have beat Davis in 2012 if the establishment hadn’t sold him down the river because he dared challenge (and crush) an utterly mediocre Durbin/AFL-CIO hack in the primary. David is extremely popular with voters; they love his authenticity, they love that he’s not an establishment politician, and they love that he’s an unapologetic economic populist. David Gill is the only person who will ever stand a chance of winning that congressional seat as a Democrat.
- Anon - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 3:18 pm:
I don’t understand the disdain for David Gill. He’s done a lot better than the DCCC’s Ann Callis or Jim Underwood’s candidate Mark Wicklund. He beat Matt Goetten and came within a point of beating Davis. Other than him, the Democrats’ efforts in 13 have been a joke. Maybe they should be serious about beating Davis before they criticize the one guy who came really close to doing it.
- Johnny Justice - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 3:26 pm:
The commentators saying Gill can’t win are the same ones who said there’s no way Hillary can lose!
- olddog - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 5:32 pm:
Dr. Gill is a nice man, but he needs to take up a new hobby.
- Worth It - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 5:48 pm:
It worked for Vincent LaGuardia Gambini.
- Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Mar 7, 17 @ 6:24 pm:
Central Illinois’ own Harold Stassen!