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Spanky needs a new photographer
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller
Formerly known as “Spanky the Clown,” Wardingly can still make us laugh, but I don’t think these pics are intentionally funny. There’s plenty more at his website.
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Numbers
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller Just in case you follow this stuff (and who doesn’t these days), here’s a link to some state-level presidential poll results.
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Mo’ Money
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller From today’s Illinois Campaign for Political Reform The Race is On blog: What really floored me, though was the $3.5 million the Democratic Party of Illinois brought in. Even accounting for Speaker Madigan’s $500K transfer to DPI, those two PACs have over $6 million to play with this year. And Senate President Emil Jones has another $5 million. That’s $11m between the two Democratic caucuses, compared with $8.3 for the Republicans (the two chambers plus the party). No wonder so many Dem candidates seem so well fed this year. (I’m not counting the Governor’s $10m in that total because he never gives from his PAC to candidates, but there’s also $105K in Move Illinois Forward; no telling where that’s going).
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Poetic License
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller From today’s Alan Keyes fundraising appeal: The mainstream media and the political “experts” said it
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Obama up on Chicago TV
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller From a press release: Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Barack Obama’s campaign today
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Money
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller A story about record fundraising in the supreme court race is here.
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More bad news for Bob.
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller By the way, the “Rapist Protection Act” mentioned in the endorsement is the subject of either a current or upcoming mailer in the district. 62nd: We endorse neophyte politician and broadcast journalist Sharyn Elman over GOP incumbent Robert Churchill. He represented the district from 1983 to 1999 and made an unsuccessful bid for Illinois secretary of state, but his stance on women’s health issues is very disturbing — Churchill voted to allow any man, including a rapist, to go to court to stop a woman from having an abortion if he suspects he is the father. He also opposes mandatory insurance coverage for mammograms.
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Rep. Dugan meets Gramma
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller I was talking to a House Dem guy last week when he told me that Rep. Lisa Dugan had met my grandmother. Huh? Dugan, he said, was walking precincts in my grandmother’s adopted hometown in Iroquois County (she lived in Kankakee almost all of her adult life) and happened to knock on her door. Last weekend, when I was pulling up to my gramma’s house, I noticed a Lisa Dugan yard sign out front. “She was very nice. She stayed for half an hour,” Gramma reported. Half an hour? Apparently, after Gramma let it slip that I was her grandson, the two had a long chat about politics, and Gramma gave her lots of names of people to talk to in town. “She said nice things about you.” I’m sure she did. It’s not like she was going to tell my grandmother bad things about me. Although, come to think of it, a certain state Representative is still on my black list for whining to my MOTHER about his treatment in Capitol Fax. So, I guess I should thank Rep. Dugan for being nice to my gramma and not talking out of school. It won’t change her coverage, of course, but at least it won’t get any worse.
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Weller and Renner
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller Congressman Jerry Weller’s Democratic opponent, Tari Renner, is pushing a poll that indicates Weller could be in big trouble. According to Renner’s poll, Weller is way under 50 percent in the head-to-head matchup, leading Renner 42-33. But the Republicans have a poll that’s about ten days old which shows Weller leading Renner 57-24.
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Worse than it appears
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller There’s a crucial missing point in this article: SPRINGFIELD — A state probe was launched Monday into how the campaign phone number of a veteran Northwest Side legislator facing a tough election battle wound up in a taxpayer-funded mailing promoting driving seminars for senior citizens. Ralph Capparelli represents the 15th House District. He’s running next door in the 20th House District against Rep. Michael McAuliffe, who currently represents the 20th. Those fliers were sent at taxpayer expense into the 20th, a district that Capparelli doesn’t legally represent, making it an almost crystal clear political use of state funds. As my subscribers learned today, that campaign phone number is the least of Capparelli’s worries.
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I don’t think they like him
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller The Illinois Hospital Association let loose on Democratic supreme court candidate Gordon Maag yesterday. …In a recent television ad, Maag said that he has helped doctors fight “frivolous lawsuits that drive up the cost of health care and put our families at risk.†And one of Maag’s campaign press releases says Maag “strongly supports medical malpractice reform to prevent doctors from leaving Illinois.â€
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Welch stuff
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller Follow this link for a good background story on Sen. Pat Welch, who, as I told you today, has a newly energized foe.
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Over the line
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller The Tribune crossed the line yesterday in explaining why it wouldn’t endorse state Sen. Gary Forby (D-Benton). Forby hasn’t done a thing to distinguish himself in this district or in the legislature and is painfully inarticulate–to the point that other legislators have a difficult time understanding what he’s trying to say. I take a good-natured poke at Forby every now and then, but that’s just wrong. If failing to enunciate clearly was a valid reason to exclude people from the General Assembly, then both Mayor Daleys and Senate President Emil Jones would have been automatically disqualified, and they seem to have done OK by most standards. (And, I don’t know why this is, but I rarely have trouble understanding either Forby or Jones. Daley is another story. I can’t handle that high-pitched squeal.) Fortunately for Forby, getting whacked by a Chicago newspaper isn’t necessarily a bad thing down ‘yonder.
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