* Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady attended a somewhat odd little event last night…

Also in Chicago Wednesday night was Sharron Angle, the conservative Republican running against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada. Angle is here to headline a fund-raising cruise for Bill Brady, the conservative Republican candidate for Illinois governor.

If you’ve been watching the news lately, you know that Sharron Angle is not exactly your usual mainstream Republican. I was wondering all night if she or Brady might do something newsworthy.

Alas, Angle didn’t say much of anything controversial, and neither did Brady. A buddy of mine was there and taped both speeches. Click here to listen to Brady. And click here to listen to Angle. Perhaps the most controversial thing Angle said was when she tried to convince the audience to hold their conventions in Las Vegas. Not a swift move. My buddy also had a camera, but he said Brady went nowhere near Angle all night. Good idea.

* Meanwhile, Brady’s campaign is claiming they’ve busted Pat Quinn’s campaign yet again. The controversy stems from this new Quinn TV ad, which had to be altered to its current form…

From a press release…

QUINN FORCED TO PULL NEW TV ATTACK AD FROM AIR

-After First Quinn Attack Ad Pulled in June, New TV Ad Pulled for Blatantly False Charge Against Brady-

Springfield – For the second time of his campaign, Governor Pat Quinn was forced today to pull his latest attack ad from the airwaves for misleading attacks against Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady.

Yesterday, Brady for Illinois was notified by two television stations in the Springfield-Decatur/ Champaign market of a decision forcing the Quinn campaign to pull its latest TV attack ad for falsely charging that Brady missed 58 percent of the session days in the Illinois State Senate.

“Once again, Pat Quinn’s smear machine has been caught lying about Bill Brady’s record, misleading voters with yet another ad that distorts the truth, and offers no ideas for fixing the fiscal mess on the Governor’s watch,” said Brady Campaign Manager Jerry Clarke.

The move comes after an earlier ad by Pat Quinn, the first of his campaign and funded by the Democratic Governors Association, was pulled after the Daily Herald reported the ad “crossed ethical lines,” by lifting footage from the taxpayer funded General Assembly’s website, and was misleading to viewers.

* But the Quinn campaign says they just tweaked a graphic…

We most certainly did not pull down the ad; we chose to tweak a graphic. It is up and playing across the state. If you are watching television in Champaign today, you will see our ad on the air.

We’re happy to debate Brady’s 17-year record in Springfield — including his record of skipping session days this year to campaign.

Once again, as he tried to do with his wikipedia page and the IL GA website, Bill Brady wants to delete his record from the public record. Senator Brady skipped out on votes 25 out of 43 days this session - that equals 58% of session days http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=386106.

It’s clear Bill Brady and his campaign are concerned that when voters discover what he really stands for they will judge him for neglecting his elected responsibilities and being too extreme on a range of issues. And they’re right.

If Brady and his campaign will try to scrub information that has existed in the public realm for weeks, months, years and even decades, what does it say about how they will govern? Illinois residents shouldn’t expect any forthrightness, transparency, or accountability from a Brady administration.

* So, what did the Quinn people actually do to that graphic? Follow-up response…

We tweaked a graphic to match the voiceover. The voiceover says Brady skipped out on more than half of days this session. The graphic HAD said, “Brady missed more than half of days of session..” - it now says, “Skipped out on more than half of session days.” (we switched out “missed” for “skipped out” - to match the voiceover track).

* And I’ll give the last word to the Brady folks…

The bottom line is, they got caught again. They’ll say and do anything if they think it will help them. When the stations were advised of the accuracy problem, it forced the removal of the ad and forced a change. This isn’t the first time. There’s a pattern here.

* Speaking of ads, remember a while back when I posted an ad made for a University of Illinois at Springfield class? Here’s another one, and from what I hear the Quinn campaign is thinking of doing something just like it. Watch…

Kind of a catchy tune.