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Gubernatorial debate live-blog
Thursday, Oct 28, 2010 - Posted by Rich Miller * As with last night, I won’t be able to watch the WTTW debate tonight at 7, so please help out in comments. Y’all did a great job last night. Let’s try it again. Thanks much. * By the way, this is from Scott Lee Cohen’s latest press release…
Not quite. I called Rainbow PUSH and was told that this is their traditional candidates event. It’s open to all candidates who want to come. Cohen won’t be speaking. Rev. Jackson will simply be acknowledging the candidates in the room and what they’re running for. …Adding… Here’s a video while we wait. Bill Brady at last night’s tea party rally… …Adding More… If Gov. Quinn loses, I will definitely miss making these mix tapes… The full show is here.
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Protected: SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition
Thursday, Oct 28, 2010 - Posted by Rich Miller
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While tea partiers surge in Illinois, Democrats don’t
Thursday, Oct 28, 2010 - Posted by Rich Miller * David Ormsby noted something interesting about yesterday’s Rasmussen poll. While Rasmussen has found that the number of self-identified tea party movement members is dropping nationally - to 17 percent in early October from 24 percent in April - it’s rising fast in Illinois…
* According to Public Policy Polling, the likely Illinois electorate is no more Democratic than it was in August, suggesting that there is no Democratic interest surge here…
* The Right is certainly being stirred up here by shows like Fox & Friends, which told at least two blatant lies today… The story is about how Cook County Jail inmates are suppposedly “taking priority” over soldiers. “Felons vote, soldiers don’t… at least, that seems to be the attitude in Cook County, Illinois,” said the show’s guest, Quinn Hillyer of the Washington Times. The segment delved into the 2600 ballots that were allegedly delivered to jail inmates, which the show claimed, is the same number of ballots that were sent late to soldiers serving overseas “from that area.” Actually, Cook County and Chicago sent overseas absentee ballots on time. Chicago’s board of elections sent the overseas applications two weeks ahead of the federal deadline. They also claim on the Fox show that the city’s board “hand-delivered” ballots to inmates at the county jail. “It’s awful,” said Hillyer, who also claimed that “inmates don’t even have to request the ballots.” Actually, no. From the city’s election board…
So, to sum up: Inmates have to request the ballots. Only those who aren’t convicted are sent ballots. And soldiers received their ballots ahead of schedule. Other than that, the show was quite accurate. Except, there was no other than that. * Speaking of stirring people up, blood always runs hot this time of year. But there’s hot and then there’s boiling…  * The organizer’s goal is to convince people to work precincts for Bill Brady’s campaign…
* Related…
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*** UPDATED x3 - WSIL SAYS THEY DIDN’T PULL BRADY AD - BRADY CAMPAIGN EXPLAINS, DENIES - Quinn claims Brady attack ad pulled for falsehoods *** Bill Brady ads are pulled from Chicago TV and radio over unpaid bills
Thursday, Oct 28, 2010 - Posted by Rich Miller * For a guy who constantly harps about the state not paying its bills on time, this is one embarrassing moment…
Brady was asked about the embarrassing irony on WGN’s midday news… Bizarre. Brady has raised a ton of cash. There are no indications that his campaign is broke. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that happening with a major campaign here. I wonder if this will come up during tonight’s WTTW gubernatorial debate. Paging Phil Ponce! And, as the story notes, the RGA is now running ads, so Brady isn’t totally dark today. I saw it on the World Series last night. Here it is… *** UPDATE 1 *** The Quinn campaign responded to the above story and then added something new. The campaign claims that Brady’s “Partner” ad has been pulled by some TV stations. I’m checking, but here is the statement…
Watch the ad in question by clicking here. It’s the Rod Blagojevich ad that claims Quinn stuck taxpayers “with a $250 million pay raise for government workers.” As I wrote the other day, the alleged “deal” with AFSCME was about layoffs. AFSCME’s contract, which included the pay raises, was negotiated by Rod Blagojevich. …Adding… More from the Quinn campaign…
*** UPDATE 2 *** I just got off the phone with Bill Brady’s campaign manager Jerry Clarke, who explained the situation. Jerry said the campaign placed a $2.2 million buy on Monday for the week. The Republican Governors Association was supposed to kick in $700,000 toward that ad buy today, but then decided to run its own ad instead. That meant the Brady campaign had to redo the buy and reduce it by $700K. The buyers, for whatever reason, did not pay for today. Clarke said that the campaign is not dark. He didn’t know if WGN was in the current buy, but insisted that other stations have now been paid by his buyers and ads are running. * As far as the Quinn campaign’s claim that Brady had pulled the “Partner” ad, Clarke said the ad was gone as of this morning because they changed traffic. “No station pulled it,” he insisted. According to Jerry, the “Future” ad is up as is the “Flatline” ad. More info as warranted. *** UPDATE 3 *** I called one of the two stations the governor’s campaign identified as “pulling” the “Partner” ad. WSIL TV general manager Steve Wheeler said the Quinn campaign claim is untrue. “We wouldn’t pull a candidate’s spot over its content,” Wheeler said. This violates the old rule of letting your opponent twist in the wind. The Quinn campaign stuck their nose into this and screwed up the hit. * Let’s add some semi-related stories while we’re at it…
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