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Another fresh indictment thread - Liveblogging the Blagojevich press conference
Wednesday, Oct 11, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller *** UPDATE *** If you missed the press conference or just want to watch it again, CBS2 has posted the raw footage. ——————————————————————————— Let’s live blog the governor’s 7pm press conference together, shall we? You can watch it on ABC7’s website. “Bill” is back, after a long day of not commenting, so I’m sure he’ll have plenty to say in comments.
* While we’re waiting, the Tribune has already posted an editorial about the day’s events.
* Really getting tired of listening to the weather on ABC7’s placeholder page. * CBS2 will carry it as well. * Here we go…. * “I feel for his family. I pray that these allegations aren’t true.” * “A tremendous sense of betrayal” * Donating Rezko’s campaign contributions to charity, but didn’t commit to donating the really big money that Rezko raised to charity. * Gifts from Rezko: “Maybe some baby gifts involved, maybe a meal or two.” * Q: Why should anyone believe what you’re saying now? Last year you said that you were confident that Rezko did things right? Answer: “If these allegations are true… He deceived me.” * He’s doing a good job so far of staying on-message. * “Personal scheme by two people who were trying to enrich themselves.” * Now, he’s blaming it on the culture of Springfield, saying he was unaware of the problems at these pension boards and other boards. * Uh… who is this non-journalist who wants a meeting? * Tony… made some recommendations… involvement on political campaign side not government side… (But then turns around and brings up a state director that Rezko put in.) * They’re letting him fillibuster. * From what I saw, the Chicago reporters let him off the hook with unfocused questions. Wholly unsatisfying. * And that’s a wrap. * Rezko’s ties to Blagojevich hires/appointees:
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Fresh indictment thread *** Updated x14 ***
Wednesday, Oct 11, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller That last post was getting long and unwieldy, so let’s start a new one. The Rezko indictment sure looks a lot like that Sun-Times story I referenced earlier today. From the indictment:
From the Sun-Times piece:
Indictment:
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And more from the Sun-Times:
Attorneys for Cellini and Kelly told the paper that their client was not involved. *** UPDATE 1 *** ICPR has a good rundown (cribbed from the Tribune) of the “deep ties between state government and several financial backers of businessman Antoin “Tony” Rezko, confidante and political fundraiser for Gov. Rod Blagojevich.” *** UPDATE 2 *** For those of you arguing this isn’t a huge political problem for the governor, you probably need a reminder of this little story. Blagojevich has acknowledged that the FBI interviewed him last year in connection with a corruption probe of administration associates. Weeks after that interview, Blagojevich amended his previous year’s gift-disclosure form to add names that hadn’t previously been on it. *** UPDATE 3 *** The Blagojevich campaign has released a statement. From the Trib story: “The allegations in today’s indictments, if proven true, are a violation of my trust but far more importantly a betrayal of the public’s trust — the indictment details a pattern of self enrichment by two individuals, acting on their own, that is reprehensible,” Blagojevich said in a written statement issued this afternoon. That “thump” you just heard was Tony Rezko being tossed under the bus. *** UPDATE 4 *** Word is a gubernatorial press conference is scheduled for 5:30. ABC7 will reportedly be carrying it on the web as it happens. *** UPDATE 5 *** NBC5 has a quote about Rezko from Judy Baar Topinka: “This is his right-hand man. This is not some third-level clerk.” *** UPDATE 6 *** From Birkett’s statement: Today’s indictment of Tony Rezko makes it clear that the investigation into corruption in the Blagojevich administration is broad, deep and gathering momentum. *** UPDATE 7 *** From Tony Peraica’s campaign:
*** UPDATE 8 *** From ABC7: The indictment also undercuts Blagojevich’s claim that corruption is best symbolized by former Governor George Ryan, one of Treasurer Topinka’s close political allies. *** UPDATE 9 *** The Teachers Retirement System has issued a press release [pdf file]. The Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois (TRS) and its Board of Trustees are disgusted, angered and deeply troubled by the federal charges filed today against Antoin “Tony†Rezko, who has served as a top fundraiser and advisor to Governor Rod Blagojevich. Rezko, along with former TRS trustee Stuart Levine, are accused of soliciting and demanding millions of dollars in undisclosed payments and kickbacks from investment firms seeking to do business with TRS. […] *** UPDATE 10 *** From the AP:
*** UPDATE 11 *** Gov. Blagojevich’s press conference has been postponed until 7pm. *** UPDATE 12 *** Did the governor basically refer to Rezko as a “close, personal friend” at the Tribune debate?
Rezko was in that disclosure report. *** UPDATE 13 *** Commenters have been wondering all day about where “Bill” has been. Well, he’s back and available for questions. lol Sorry that you drew 13 as an update number, Bill, but it’s been that sort of a day for your team. *** UPDATE 14 *** ABC7’s live coverage of the governor’s statement/press conference/whatever scheduled for 7pm will be here.
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*** Updated x27 *** FEDS INDICT REZKO: “PAY TO PLAY ON STEROIDS”
Wednesday, Oct 11, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller Oh my goodness. Sun-Times: Federal prosecutors are expected to announce what was described as significant federal public corruption charges this afternoon, including charges against Gov. Blagojevich fund-raiser Antoin “Tony†Rezko, sources told the Sun-Times this morning. *** UPDATE *** The US Attorney’s media advisory is below. Click the pic for a larger image.
*** UPDATE 2 *** Here’s the text of that advisory:
Well, this is it, campers. *** UPDATE 3 *** The Tribune reports that Rezko has been indicted. Federal prosecutors have indicted Antoin “Tony” Rezko, a top fundraiser for Gov. Rod Blagojevich, on charges that he received hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from investment firms seeking business from the state teachers’ pension system, according to an indictment unsealed today. *** UPDATE 4 *** If I were you, I’d be checking this website around noon. *** UPDATE 5 *** CLTV will be covering the press conference live at 1pm, but we’re not sure yet whether it’ll be online, or where else it might be. I’d bet that WBBM radio will carry it, but I’m not sure yet. I’m asking around now. Check back in a few. *** UPDATE 6 *** Just to fill you in a bit, the rumor has been for weeks that Rezko was in the Middle East negotiating his plea. The word was that he was threatening never to return to the US unless he got a good deal. *** UPDATE 7 *** ABC7: Kelly’s lawyer said this morning he was unaware of any criminal charges being filed against his client, and there was no indication charges against Kelly were imminent. *** UPDATE 8 *** You can download Rezko’s indictment here. [pdf file] *** UPDATE 9 *** “Rezko used his relationship with certain State of Illinois officials to ensure that Rezko and Levine had the ability to influence the actions of TRS and the Planning Board for the benefit of themselves hand their nominees and associates.” *** UPDATE 10 *** “Rezko sought to influence certain State of Illinois officials, in order to ensure that Levine and persons allied with Rezko and Levine, retained and obtained membership on the TRS Board and the Planning Board that enabled Rezko and Levine to influence the actions of those boards…” *** UPDATE 11 *** “[As part of the scheme in “Update 10″] when certain State of Illinois officials advocated consolidating TRS, the Illinois State Board of Investment and the State University Retirement System into a single pension fund, Levine and Individual A approached Rezko and Invidual B for assistance in defeating this proposal. Rezko and individual B agreed to use their relationships and influence with high-ranking state of Illinois officials to oppose the pension consolidation plan, and in exchange, Levine and Individual A agreed to use their influence and Levine’s position at TRS to ensure that TRS used investment5 firms and hired lawyers identified by Rezko and Individual B.” *** UPDATE 12 *** [After Rezko and Levine agreed that Levine should be reappointed to the TRS board] “Rezko instructed a state of Illinois employee responsible for facilitating appointments to state boards to move forward on Levine’s reappointment to the TRS Board, and represented that the reappointment had been approved by a high-ranking state official. The high-ranking state official subsequently directed that Levine be reappointed to the TRS board. Also in or about May 2004, two new members were appointed to the TRS Board who voted with Levine on matters of interest to Rezko and Levine.” *** UPDATE 13 *** [in the spring of 2004, Rezko, Levine and Individual A] “did attempt to commit extortion… in that the defendant attempted to obtain property, in the form of payments from Investment Firm 7 and Individual J to a consultant identified by Rezko and Levine or political donations to a candidate identified by Rezko and Levine…” *** UPDATE 14 *** “In or about April, 2004, Rezko and Levine agreed to use their influence and Levine’s position at TRS to prevent Investment Firm 7 from getting its $220 million allocation unless Individual J agreed either to pay an approximately $2 million fee chosen by Rezko and Levine, or to arrange for approximately $1.5 million in political contributions to be made to a certain public official. […] “Rezko and Levine further agreed that Levine would arrange for an intermediary, namely Individual A, to indicate to Individual J that Investment Firm 7 had not received its $220 million allocation because Investment Firm 7 had not contributed significantly to a certain public official.” *** UPDATE 15 *** [The Investment firm refused to be extorted, however, and threatened to go to the coppers, so the plans were dropped.] “Rezko, Levine, Individual A and Individual B… agreed that although Investment Firm 7 woiuld receive the $220 million allocation, it would not receive any further business from any state of Illinois entity, including TRS. *** UPDATE 16 *** Tribune:
*** UPDATE 17 *** AP:
*** UPDATE 18 *** “Individual A had longstanding relationships with TRS trustees, including Levine and TRS staff members and was associated with a real estate asset management firm that managed hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of TRS. “Individual B was a political fundraiser and an associate of Rezko.” *** UPDATE 19 *** NBC5 Live video link *** UPDATE 20 *** ABC7 live coverage *** UPDATE 21 *** Fitzgerald: “I’m not going to comment as to who’s involved other than what’s in the indictment.” [..] [Influencing election?] Fitzgerald: “We’re not concerned with elections, we’re concerned with bringing the cases as soon as they’re ready to go…. If we did not… people will say ‘Why did you do that?… Not doing it for political reasons and not going to not do it for political reasons.” *** UPDATE 22 *** Fitzgerald: “Feeding frenzy going on in the spring of 2004″ Fitzgerald: “Pay to play on steroids” *** UPDATE 23 *** [Why… a month before an election… talk about whether Blagojevich is a target of this investigation?] Fitzgerald: “We have never commented on people who are not charged, and I’m not going to do it.” *** UPDATE 24 *** Remember the Sun-Times story from last month about a criminal investigation of whether pension business was traded for contributions to Gov. Blagojevich? The piece included this bit. The sources identified those involved as former TRS board member Stuart Levine; top Blagojevich fund-raisers Antoin “Tony” Rezko and Christopher G. Kelly, and longtime Springfield insider William Cellini. Also from September of last year is this Sun-Times lede. A state teachers’ pension board member who is a business associate of Republican powerbroker William Cellini has voted to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in pension cash in a real estate investment firm that Cellini founded. *** UPDATE 25 *** WBBM Radio reports that Rezko is expected to appear at Friday’s arraignment hearing. *** UPDATE 26 *** Joe Birkett plans a press conference for 2:30 this afternoon. *** UPDATE 27 *** LOL. From the AP: A spokeswoman for Blagojevich’s administration did not immediately return a call for comment.
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Tribune “debate” coverage *** Updated x2 ***
Wednesday, Oct 11, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller [Updated and bumped to the top. Check out Phil Ponce’s comments in Update #2] The Tribune’s full debate story is now online.
The entire transcript is here, but the Tribune has posted only excerpts of the audio: * On whether he’s hired criminal defense counsel - he doesn’t answer Meanwhile, the Daily Herald had this response from the Topinka campaign: Topinka spokesman John McGovern said Blagojevich’s refusal to say “yes†or “no†on the defense attorney question speaks volumes. And the AP had the post-debate action. “She’s in the tank for the NRA and it’s very disheartening,” Blagojevich said of Topinka. […] And Carol Marin bemoans the Blagojevich campaign’s written acceptance then ducking of the WTTW debate. No one from the governor’s campaign, according “Chicago Tonight” executive producer Mary Field, ever once said that Blagojevich’s confirmation was contingent on negotiations with Topinka’s people for the scheduling of other events. There is no correspondence to that effect. No communications of any kind. […] *** UPDATE *** The State Journal-Register tries to fire things up with today’s editorial. “The pattern, and the conclusion to be drawn, is clear; Rod Blagojevich is afraid to debate me, and he is trying to hide behind Judy Baar Topinka’s skirt, and blame her, for his response of cutting and running. That is why, on the two occasions on which he has scuttled previously agreed to debates, he has arrogantly refused to provide any explanation to the debate sponsors or to the people of this state,†said Whitney. *** UPDATE 2 *** WTTW kindly provided me with a transcript of Chicago Tonight host Phil Ponce’s comments at the end of last evening’s program. Phil really let the guv have it but good. And now an editor’s note on a story involving “Chicago Tonight” that you may have seen on the news or read about in the paper.
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Reality check on electric rates
Wednesday, Oct 11, 2006 - Posted by Capitol Fax Blog Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement] Chicago Tribune editorial (excerpts) Published on October 11, 2006 Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka didn’t agree on much when they visited the Tribune (editorial board). But they were of one mind on this: They’re more than willing to pander to voters by extending a freeze on electricity rates, even though they know that could jeopardize the financial health of utilities in Illinois. Topinka and Blagojevich were asked: How would extending the freeze lead to a competitive market in electricity? Neither could answer. In fact, extending the freeze would make it less likely that a competitive market would continue to develop for consumers in Illinois. But that’s not the worst consequence of this idea. Rep. George Scully (D-Flossmoor), chairman of the House committee, said he wouldn’t mind seeing the utility under the supervision of a bankruptcy court. Now think about that. Scully is suggesting he would prefer to push into bankruptcy the company that keeps the lights on in northern Illinois. This is a critical economic issue for the state–potentially dangerous for the Illinois economy–and it just can’t be handled as a pre-election political stunt. If it does come to bankruptcy and blackouts, the politicians will have a hard time explaining why they aren’t entirely to blame.
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Question of the day
Wednesday, Oct 11, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller This is probably the most-asked question I get these days in private conversation, and even in public forums. Everyone’s talking about it, and I assume that since the guv wouldn’t answer the Tribune’s questions about whether he’s retained criminal defense counsel the chatter will crank up even higher. However, to avoid all weirdness, I want today’s QOTD to be a reader poll. Please confine your answers to “Yes,” “No,” or “I don’t know.” Everything else will be deleted. No names, no rants. Question: Do you believe Gov. Rod Blagojevich will ever be indicted by the feds? (Before or after the election is irrelevant to this question.) Remember, “Yes,” “No,” or “I don’t know” are the only acceptable responses. Anything beyond that will be deleted and those who violate this requirement - as well as multiple voters - risk permanent banishment from the blog itself. We still have almost four weeks to go until the election, so you wouldn’t want to be banned now, would you?
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Junk ban approved
Wednesday, Oct 11, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller The governor got his junk food ban, just in time for the election. Elementary- and middle-school pupils will not be able to buy snacks with high fat, sugar or calorie content before and during the school day under new state rules approved Tuesday. Legislators complained, but the proposal was approved by JCAR. “This is pre-election puffery, rather than a very thoughtful, comprehensive approach to children’s nutrition and health,” said state Rep. Larry McKeon, a Chicago Democrat who sits on the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules.
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Duckworth can’t answer question *** Updated x2 ***
Wednesday, Oct 11, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller It’s not often that a candidate, or anyone else for that matter, is asked the question that Tammy Duckworth was asked yesterday. Good for the Daily Herald. [emphasis added] Sixth Congressional District Democrat Tammy Duckworth tried to capitalize on the recent spate of school shootings by citing them as she criticized her opponent’s record on gun control Tuesday. Too often, candidates are allowed to demagogue with a “there oughtta be a law” statement without any sort of journalistic follow-up. Also, too often after major tragedies, people propose solutions that never would have prevented the events in question, yet somehow they are allowed to skate free. Duckworth didn’t get a free pass this time. *** UPDATE *** Today’s Tribune story of the same press event is a good example of how gun control candidates get off too easy. *** UPDATE 2 *** Dan Curry, a blogger who also works for the Topinka campaign, noted the above remarks and applied them to today’s AP coverage of Gov. Blagojevich. Today, AP should have shown similar toughness when giving Rod Blagojevich a free ride on one of his talking points during this campaign — his position in favor of a ban on assault weapons. His attack on Judy Baar Topinka on this issue hardly is news compared to revelations at the Tribune editorial board that a sitting governor refuses to reveal whether he is using the services of a criminal defense attorney. Yet AP played assault weapons higher in the story.
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Stroger and Peraica swing hard
Wednesday, Oct 11, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller ABC7 starts out our Stroger-Peraica debate roundup: ‘Two-faced’ Tony Peraica took on ‘Blissfully Ignorant’ Todd Stroger in another round of mud-slinging in race for Cook County Board president. The two candidates took turns calling each other names during a debate at the Chicago Union League Club. Stroger’s missed votes in Springfield also came up. Peraica tried to poke holes in Stroger’s claim he is a “Bill Clinton Democrat,” who is committed to anti-gun laws. Peraica said Stroger was one of only a handful of “present” votes in the Legislature on three popular anti-crime measures, including one to increase penalties for breaking gun laws on school grounds. The Tribune noted a curious link on Peraica’s government website. They also traded barbs over Peraica’s official county Web site, which contained links leading to his private law practice. And the Daily Herald notes how the candidates repeated their main themes. While the new topics were prompted mostly by questions asked by WBBM radio’s Craig Dellimore, who moderated the debate, both candidates also made sure to pound their No. 1 themes.
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Morning shorts
Wednesday, Oct 11, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller * The Blagojevich campaign has a complete list of early voting polling places posted on iits website. * Giannoulias Defends Donations From Bank Clients * Sweet: House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, with his job on the line because of the spiraling Mark Foley cyberspace page sex scandal, was duped Tuesday into letting a stranger into his Plano home — a serious security breach. Hastert literally let his guard down and allowed in his house a hustling, self-promoting evangelist little known in this country, the Houston-based K.A. Paul, who at 7:30 a.m. arrived at the speaker’s home with a camera-wielding associate. [More here] * Southtown editorial: Negative political TV ads don’t do voters any favors * Richards: Tax swap is only way to fix schools * Blesch: ‘When people are uninsured, everyone pays’ * McQueary: Topinka — the Cliff’s Notes version * Blankenship: In the short term, Topinka offers better fix for Medicaid * IL 10th District Race Price Tag Rises
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The debate debate - No debates *** Updated x6 ***
Tuesday, Oct 10, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller It certainly appears that there will be no more debates. The Sun-Times starts us off. Producers at Chicago’s major public television station figured it was official when Gov. Blagojevich and Republican challenger Judy Baar Topinka agreed months ago to participate in a live TV debate in late October. The governor is not exactly telling the truth. Here’s the e-mail exchange referenced above between WTTW and the governor’s campaign. I’ve taken out the actual e-mail addresses and put it in chronological order.
Here’s part of Copley’s story: Incumbent Blagojevich issued a “final” offer last week to meet with Topinka at two forums - an Oct. 13 radio debate in Chicago and an Oct. 15 debate in southern Illinois - and set a response deadline of Monday morning. Topinka, who offered a counterproposal that her opponent’s campaign rejected, told reporters that Blagojevich was issuing an “ultimatum” and trying to control the terms of their meetings. […] ABC7: The League of Women Voters is hesitant to blame one side or the other, but it’s safe to say a governor who is leading in the polls and has millions to spend on TV probably needs and wants debates less than an under-funded challenger, but Topinka is pledging to truck on. Christopher Mooney, a professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Springfield, said further debates could only become an impediment to Blagojevich, who is leading in the polls and in campaign fundraising. Short answer to Mooney’s confusion: She can’t stand Blagojevich, so she won’t let him dictate terms. Discuss. *** UPDATE *** You can watch last week’s Illinois Radio Network debate at C-Span’s website by clicking here (.rm file). [Hat tip: Inside Dope] *** UPDATE 2 *** Topinka and Blagojevich will square off in front of the Tribune’s editorial board today. Apparently, the governor’s team refused to allow the Trib to tape the proceedings and the paper caved. *** UPDATE 3 *** Good news. The Tribsters confronted Gov. Blagojevich directly at the editorial board meeting and he agreed to let them *** UPDATE 4 *** The Trib story on the edit board “debate” is up. Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Tuesday that scrutiny of his administration is “not necessarily a bad thing,” but he would not say whether he has retained a criminal defense attorney to handle federal and state investigations into allegations of wrongdoing involving hiring, contracting and fundraising. […] I hear they asked him the criminal lawyer thing over and over again. Not totally sure why. *** UPDATE 5 *** Check out the Trib photo that accompanied the debate story. [Hat tip to a commenter] *** UPDATE 6 *** CBS2: Blagojevich insisted the Tribune session not be videotaped or recorded for broadcast purposes. The board up until now has been recording their sessions, but agreed not to, saying the governor probably would not show up if they did. [Comments closed. Move over to Wednesday’s story please.]
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Election 2006 menu
Tuesday, Oct 10, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller I can’t track whether you’re using the pull-down/drop-down (whichever floats your boat) menus, so I wanted to let you know there are some new additions to the “Election 2006″ menu which is just above the YouTube emblem on the upper right side of the page. Here are all the links you’ll find in that menu.
Use the comments to suggest any additional links. Also, since I mentioned YouTube at the top of this post, I might as well use this to tell you about two new videos on the YouTube “vlog”: * JakeCP “fires back at the people who call him a fraud on thecapitolfaxblog.com” 
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Question of the day
Tuesday, Oct 10, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller How about instead of a QOTD we have a caption contest of this great photo by Charles Rex Arbogast of the Associated Press? The pic was snapped yesterday at Chicago’s Columbus Day parade.
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Still more of that yummy reform and renewal
Tuesday, Oct 10, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller The AP fills us in. Legal documents filed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s administration in the case of two fired employees suggest that other officials under the Democratic governor shuffled politically connected job applicants into internships for which they were overqualified. The AP notes that some of those “interns” were connected and produced a list. Here’s one: • Brenda Cockrum, sister-in-law of U.S. Rep. Jerry Costello, a Belleville Democrat. She got “A” grades for two categories in April 2003; three weeks later, she began her career as a 60-year-old intern. Not exactly a recent college graduate.
Except that the governor’s office had to approve all new hires. Meanwhile, AFSCME sent me its full statement that it gave the Tribune this week in response to what Gov. Blagojevich said about the union’s objections to his expensive internal “investigation” of alleged hiring fraud. Blagojevich told the Tribune “The public employees union is upset about it because in the old days no one bothered to look into the wrongdoing of state employees. Their job is to represent the state employees.” AFSMCE responded thusly:
I’m so looking forward to the next four years.
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Peraica poll has him eight points ahead
Tuesday, Oct 10, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller Peraica’s got a new poll. Republican Tony Peraica released an internal campaign poll Monday that shows him leading Democrat Todd Stroger by eight percentage points in the race for Cook County Board president. CBS2 has a little more: Of the 400 voters surveyed, 64 percent had heard of Peraica, 31 percent have a favorable view of him, and 15 percent have an unfavorable view. There is one thing you should always remember about polling in Cook County. The Democratic machine’s impact doesn’t really kick in until the last couple of weeks. Lots and lots of candidates have believed they were ahead a month or so before election day, only to get clobbered when voting actually began. An eight-point lead is still substantial (although we’re still only talking about a survey sample size of 400, which makes the margin of error quite high), but we’ll know more on e-day. This logic also applies to the Duckworth-Roskam race, by the way. A recent poll had Duckworth ahead by 5, but Roskam’s field organization and the DuPage Republican operation can probably make up that difference unless GOP voters are adamant about staying home. Some of Peraica’s crosstabs can be downloaded here [pdf file]. The executive summary is here [doc file]. A PowerPoint presentation is here [ppt file].
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Morning shorts
Tuesday, Oct 10, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller * Tribune: Many of the biggest donors to Democratic state treasurer candidate Alexi Giannoulias also received millions of dollars in loans from his family’s Broadway Bank–some making their campaign contributions within weeks or months of receiving the loans, a Tribune analysis shows * TIME.com: In a match-up where neither candidate’s policy agenda has found much traction, it’s hard to bet against the one whose budget for attack ads is virtually limitless. * KFVS: With just a month away from the November general election, many voters in Southern Illinois can’t make heads or tails out of the two candidates running for governor. Southern Illinois University Professor John Jackson says that’s because there’s been more finger pointing, than talking about the issues. * Where did all the people go? - 7 years later, are the raze-and-rebuild plans succeeding? * Denial of Duff appeal could be bad news for Sorich * Klau: Hastert Robo Call in the 14th * Tribune editorial: You’re the clerk. Uh, congrats
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