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Poll: Biden, Foxx with double-digit leads, 72 percent disapprove of Blagojevich commutation

Thursday, Mar 12, 2020 - Posted by Rich Miller

* WGN…

According to a WGN-TV/Emerson College poll, Joe Biden is the front runner in Illinois. By a wide-margin voters support Biden over Bernie Sanders. According to the poll, 56.6% of Illinois voters choose Biden, 36.2% support Sanders. […]

In terms of the Cook County State’s Attorney race, the incumbent Kim Foxx came out on top.

Kim Foxx 36.3%
Bill Conway 20.3%
Donna More 4.8%
Bob Fioretti 4.3%
34.2% said they remain undecided

Voters were also asked if they approve or disapprove of Trump’s pardoning of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

71.8% of voters disapprove
28.2% approve.

Maybe the Chicago TV stations will now stop lionizing the disgraced former governor. More results at the link.

…Adding… As somebody pointed out, the undecideds in the state’s attorney race are quite large. Plenty of room for movement, but we’ll see. The spread is definitely big. I would love to see the xtabs to see who is still making up their minds.

…Adding More… The crosstabs are actually online. Click here. 40 percent of white voters, who are pretty much evenly split in this poll between Foxx and Conway, are still undecided. And 32 percent of black voters, who are with Foxx over Conway 59-4, are undecided. About a third of both men and women are undecided, and Foxx leads Conway by 5 points among men and 25 points among women. Just 16 percent of voters 65+ are undecided and Foxx leads Conway by 31 points. 30 percent of voters aged 50-64 are undecided and Foxx leads by 30.

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As expected, ARDC hearing board recommends Blagojevich be disbarred

Tuesday, Mar 3, 2020 - Posted by Rich Miller

* Click here to read it for yourself.

* Meanwhile, John Bambenek recently paid $65 to troll local Democratic candidate Emily Rodriguez…

Getting endorsed by Blagojevich? Bold move, @emilyrod. cc: @electmikeingram @news_gazette pic.twitter.com/pCeueSE39I

— John Bambenek (@bambenek) March 2, 2020

Set aside the prank for a moment. That’s just a bad video all around and… what the heck is on Rod’s face? This is the clearest evidence yet that you should not be paying him for one of his goofy videos.

* Anyway, a Rodriguez ally actually filed a complaint with the Board of Elections claiming there should be a “paid for by” on Bambenek’s silly tweet. Click here to read it. That’s kinda weird because Bambenek isn’t running for anything and currently has no active candidate committee. It’s paid for, in other words, by Bambenek himself.

Mark Maxwell…

The complaint, dated March 2nd, alleges that Bambenek has supported Rosales in his primary challenge, and that he should have included a “paid for by” disclaimer in the video he posted to his 35,000 Twitter followers.

As chairman of the County Board, Rosales, a Democrat, has an obligation to appoint someone to fill the vacant Treasurer position. Bambenek, a Republican, has expressed interest in running for that seat in November. Bambenek claims he did not coordinate the gag with Rosales, and that the $65 expense is below the reporting threshold. He also argues the satire is protected under his right to exercise political speech, and does not consider the video an ‘in-kind contribution’ to the Rosales campaign.

If the expense were to be filed with the State Board of Elections, it would not appear until the next reporting period, which is after the primary will have concluded.

Even if it was an in-kind contribution, Rosales has no campaign committee. Bambenek couldn’t file an A-1 even if he wanted to.

* From Bambenek’s response…

In fact, until about the time of filing this complaint, [Emily Rodriguez’s] own twitter profile stated something of the form “once described as a gussied up Blago”. It has since been deleted.

Yep.

* Since she was the object of ridicule, Rodriguez will get the last word…

A man retaliates against a woman who denied him the attention he feels entitled to… I wish I were more surprised by this pattern of behavior. https://t.co/Tm7xsqG7kI

— Emily Rodriguez (@emilyrod) March 2, 2020

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