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March 2018 Posts

Reader comments closed until April 2 (03-23)
Quick hits before vacation (03-23)
Heads up! (03-23)
First-day whiplash in mayor's race (03-23)
Pritzker hit on taxes (03-23)
Even Trib tires of "Because... Madigan!" (03-23)
What goes around eventually comes around (03-23)
Londrigan turns to face Davis (03-23)
*** UPDATED x1 - DGA follows suit *** Pritzker uses Ives in new video (03-23)
Illinois House Bill HB 4900 is Unconstitutional (03-23)
Rauner on the hustings (03-23)
Quote of the week (03-23)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (03-23)
The natives are getting restless (03-23)
A polling lesson for the future (03-22)
Pritzker's victory speech, annotated (03-22)
Does McCarthy even have a path to victory? (03-22)
Question of the day - Part 2 (03-22)
Berrios county party chairmanship in peril (03-22)
Rauner dodges tax return question, pivots instead to Pritzker's tax dodging and tax hikes (03-22)
*** UPDATED x2 - Madigan responds *** Hampton sues Madigan organization (03-22)
The Proft scorecard (03-22)
AFSCME wins, SEIU may be dealt setback (03-22)
Rauner dinged with another "False" ruling by Politifact (03-22)
Ives' latest demand: A million-dollar apology ad (03-22)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Question of the day (03-22)
Pritzker and the black vote (03-22)
A very rough road ahead for Rauner (03-22)
Rauner campaign warns on Pritzker tax hike (03-22)
Rauner had weakest primary showing by a GOP governor since 1928 (03-22)
Oh, please (03-22)
We're number one! (03-21)
Post-election spin (03-21)
Question of the day (03-21)
Pop tax election spin (03-21)
After ugly split, Breen is back on board with Rauner (03-21)
Pritzker talks taxes, Madigan and Rauner (03-21)
Pritzker lost just 4 counties (03-21)
Drury talks like he's running for something else (03-21)
Unclear on the concept (03-21)
The lesson for Newman's supporters (03-21)
Day after open thread (03-21)
DGA trolls Rauner for not calling Ives, but Ives doesn't want to talk to him (03-21)
DGA also launches a new online ad (03-21)
Pritzker fires back with his own online ad (03-21)
*** UPDATED x1 *** ICPR: Rauner raised most per vote by far (03-21)
Casten will face Roskam (03-21)
*** UPDATED x1 - Online *** New Rauner ad uses Biss and Kennedy against Pritzker (03-21)
Democrats, Republicans make case for AG candidates (03-21)
Republicans react to primary wins (03-21)
Democrats make their case for Pritzker (03-21)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (03-21)
Declared winners (03-20)
LIVE ELECTION RESULTS: Illinois House Republican primaries (03-20)
LIVE ELECTION RESULTS: Illinois House Democratic primaries (03-20)
LIVE ELECTION RESULTS: Illinois Senate Republican primaries (03-20)
LIVE ELECTION RESULTS: Illinois Senate Democratic primaries (03-20)
LIVE ELECTION RESULTS: Democratic congressional primaries (03-20)
LIVE ELECTION RESULTS: Republican congressional primaries (03-20)
LIVE ELECTION RESULTS: Democratic congressional primaries (03-20)
LIVE ELECTION RESULTS: Statewide primaries (03-20)
*** LIVE *** Sun-Times election night show, plus Rich Miller's updates (03-20)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Late afternoon, early evening precinct reports (03-20)
More election day shenanigans! (03-20)
*** LIVE *** Election coverage (03-20)
Hultgren aide fired after scandal (03-20)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition (03-20)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Election day Lipinski roundup (03-20)
Illinois House Bill HB 4900 Does Nothing for Illinois Consumers (03-20)
Tonight's election coverage plan (03-20)
Afternoon election day thread (03-20)
A somewhat confused expectations game (03-20)
Election day shenanigans! (03-20)
Election day time-killers (03-20)
Adventures in campaigning (03-20)
Ives puts up new ad in final day (03-20)
Providing voter information is the right thing to do (03-20)
Morning election day thread (03-20)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (03-20)
Quinn's Obama ad shenanigan prompts rebuke: "Black voters won’t be bamboozled by him again" (03-20)
HRC does GOTV robo for JB (03-20)
Rauner says he will "work hard" to unify party after primary (03-20)
Newt boosts Bruce in 11th Hour anti-Madigan robo (03-19)
*** UPDATED x3 *** Late shenanigans! (03-19)
Gov. Rauner compares Speaker Madigan to Al Capone (03-19)
Bombshell: Scandal rocks tronc (03-19)
Because... Madigan! (03-19)
Can't buy me love, everybody tells me so (03-19)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition (03-19)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Early afternoon shenanigans! (03-19)
Final pre-election roundup (03-19)
Caption contest! (03-19)
*** UPDATED x1 - Rauner dodges *** Monday morning shenanigans roundup (03-19)
Lipinski roundup (03-19)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Rauner mailers predict "showdown" with Madigan, who will be sent "packing" (03-19)
The politics behind Rauner's veto and the future of gun bills (03-19)
Sometimes, you just gotta laugh at this stuff or you'll cry (03-19)
Question of the day (03-19)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (03-19)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Early voting roundup (03-18)
Still more shenanigans! (03-18)
Sunday campaign money roundup (03-18)
Even more shenanigans! (03-18)
More shenanigans! (03-17)
Saturday campaign money report (03-17)
*** UPDATED x2 *** Shenanigans! (03-17)
Tribune drops bombshell on Biss running mate (03-17)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (03-16)
Rauner: "Madigan has rigged the Democratic primary for Pritzker" (03-16)
New Ives radio ad claims Democrats are trying to help Rauner, while Brady does Rauner robocall (03-16)
*** UPDATED x1 - DGA responds *** Elections board says DGA should file disclosure for Ives ad (03-16)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Jones; IEA/IFT; Reis; Mitchell; Edgar (03-16)
ISRA, Drury both try to claim Raoul inserted "poison pill" into gun bill (03-16)
Pro-life group launches GOTV effort for Lipinski (03-16)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Rauner opens new online track against Ives (03-16)
Erika Harold still can't remember comments, but says "I was wrong" (03-16)
Rauner calls Madigan "a unified force of bad, of evil" (03-16)
Sen. Duckworth gets involved in another state central committee race (03-16)
*** UPDATED x2 *** Has Pritzker gone to ground? (03-16)
Illinois House Bill HB 4900 Wastes Government Resources (03-16)
McCann, barred from SGOP caucus meeting, claims Rauner threatened to "destroy you and your family" (03-16)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Caption contest! (03-16)
Obama mailer kerfuffle in Lipinski district (03-16)
Rauner attended Quincy campaign event after Quincy veterans' home presser (03-16)
After spending millions in Dem primary, Rauner accuses "Washington liberals" of "hijacking" the GOP primary (03-16)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (03-16)
*** UPDATED x5 - $451,000 *** New DGA ads bash Jeanne Ives, Bruce Rauner (03-15)
Kennedy's #BissPlease moment (03-15)
Question of the day (03-15)
Report: Regressive property tax adjustments made poor pay more, rich pay less (03-15)
Pritzker says he doesn't own that offshore company (03-15)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Turnout; Dunkin; Fine; Currie; Long; Haine (03-15)
Kennedy says Pritzker should drop out, Biss says Kennedy should also drop out (03-15)
Some Twitter bots appear to be promoting the Ives campaign (03-15)
*** UPDATED x2 - Sens. Haine, Castro respond *** Rauner outlines "options" for future of Quincy veterans' home, says "Nothing has taken long" (03-15)
*** UPDATED x5 - RGA, Rauner campaign respond - "Real buy" *** DGA to air TV ad tomorrow (03-15)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Drury says his poll has him at 8 or 9 percent (03-15)
Fact-checking Kennedy on retirement income tax and legalizing marijuana (03-15)
Pritzker campaign tries to put best face on last night's debate (03-15)
Rauner said he didn't know what "pants on fire" meant (03-15)
Pritzker launches closing ad (03-15)
JB Pritzker played defense most of the night (03-15)
Chris Kennedy was on fire last night (03-15)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (03-15)
Open thread (03-15)
Rate Biss' new ad (03-14)
New Quinn ad criticizes Kwame Raoul (03-14)
Governor says he's spending "a hundred percent" of his time focused on Madigan and Pritzker (03-14)
Like a stroll back through time (03-14)
*** UPDATED x2 *** Veto override showdown postponed until April (03-14)
Sen. Haine calls delays in fixing Quincy veterans' home a "tremendous dereliction of duty" (03-14)
Drury spends his million bucks on new TV ad (03-14)
Question of the day (03-14)
There's no escaping the Madigan issue (03-14)
Traffic stop data is an important tool for police and the public (03-14)
Court orders state to pay raises to caregivers (03-14)
County fairs want their money (03-14)
Kennedy shifts yet again on marijuana (03-14)
Candidate denies conspiracy, which obviously makes him guilty (03-14)
Tribune chronicles an offshore Pritzker company (03-14)
McCann's big announcement was endorsing a longshot (03-14)
Rauner appoints new OEIG (03-14)
Ives demands Rauner release internal e-mails (03-14)
Is a hard rain gonna fall? (03-14)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-14)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (03-14)
Drury gets million-dollar contribution (03-13)
Strangest. Year. Ever. (03-13)
Question of the day (03-13)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Edgar County Watchdogs files OEIG complaint (03-13)
Ives launches two new ads (03-13)
Rauner says he's been an NRA member "for many years," claims politics played no role in veto (03-13)
Rauner veto react (03-13)
Rauner quickly pulls the trigger on gun bill veto (03-13)
Ives claims she's within 10 points of Rauner (03-13)
Pritzker unleashes the hounds on Kennedy with new ad (03-13)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Afternoon roundup: Voting; Silverstein; Breen; Sente; Soto; Currie (03-13)
Rauner on Pritzker: "We are gonna blow him up and take him down" (03-13)
Traffic stop data is an important tool for police and the public (03-13)
Not a good look (03-13)
More Kennedy nuance, this time on pensions (03-13)
*** UPDATED x1 *** POLL: 57 percent of Chicagoans say city is on wrong track, will vote to replace underwater Emanuel (03-13)
Martin Sheen narrates newly voiced Kennedy ad (03-13)
Rate the new anti-Quinn ad (03-13)
Rauner, ILGOP attack Pritzker on Berrios, Blagojevich (03-13)
Union-backed Pritzker criticized for not supporting grad student unions (03-13)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-13)
Biss wants to back insurgent state central committee candidates (03-13)
*** UPDATED x4 - DGA, Cullerton, Biss, Kennedy blast Rauner - Prizker says Rauner "cares more about winning his primary than doing his job" - Emanuel: Veto is "slap in the face to crime victims, faith leaders and police" *** Rauner now says he'll veto gun dealer licensing bill (03-13)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (03-13)
Dark money super PAC to spend $675K opposing Pat Quinn (03-12)
Rauner mailer says he's "tall enough to stand up to Madigan" (03-12)
Report: Berrios' name being left off sample ballots (03-12)
Dueling press releases (03-12)
Today's dodge word: "Comprehensive" (03-12)
Trover looks back and warns: A big lead can evaporate quickly (03-12)
Kennedy's "Florida tax" idea (03-12)
Because... Madigan! (03-12)
The Circular Firing Squad sometimes encircles itself (03-12)
Kennedy again goes after Pritzker's family upbringing (03-12)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - This just in... (03-12)
Rauner expresses support for Erika Harold, but dodges most questions (03-12)
Politics ain't beanbag (03-12)
Question of the day (03-12)
In remap fight, you've got to know when to go "all in" (03-12)
Today's mail: Fritchey hit on ketchup, polluters, pirates (03-12)
The price of my vote (03-12)
Rauner's mansion utility bills story turns out to be true (03-12)
Rauner may have tipped his hand on gun bill (03-12)
Kwame Raoul resurrects Dan Hynes' "Harold Washington ad" against Quinn (03-12)
Poll: Pritzker up by 19, Quinn leads by 8 (03-12)
A Kennedy/Biss retirement tax problem: Voters don't do nuance (03-12)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition (03-12)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (03-12)
Kennedy blasts Pritzker for "buying off" black politicians (03-11)
Sunday Jeanne Ives roundup (03-11)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Mailboxes "jammed" in Silverstein district (03-10)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - More on Friday night's "Extra" (03-10)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Extra! Tonight's special edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (03-09)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Rauner may have tipped his hand on gun bill (03-09)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Fundraiser and event list (03-09)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (03-09)
Pritzker TV ad hits Biss, Kennedy on "widely unpopular" retirement income tax (03-09)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Silverstein district mailer (03-09)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Dunkin mailers; Haine district (03-09)
Mariotti is first Illinois candidate to negotiate union contract (03-09)
Question of the day (03-09)
Murashko says he's been cleared (03-09)
Fallout continues over Erika Harold story (03-09)
Dan Aykroyd makes video for Chris Kennedy (03-09)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Poll; Voting; Soto; Madigan; Rita; Stratton; Defender (03-09)
Breen under attack, Salvi compares himself to Ives, Ives agrees with... herself (03-09)
New Biss ad claims "billionaire class" will say and spend anything to hold onto power (03-09)
Transportation lawsuit could blow a huge hole in Cook County's budget (03-09)
Candidates who say they refused to pledge support for Madigan now under attack (03-09)
ILGOP: "Pritzker will support Mike Madigan at all costs, regardless of how many women Madigan's corruption hurts" (03-09)
Groups furious that DCFS report tracking system has been offline for 8 months (03-09)
*** UPDATED x1 - First reported in 2014 *** Harold campaign pushes back against NBC 5 story (03-09)
*** UPDATED x1 - Kennedy slams Pritzker *** Pritzker is spreading around a ton of cash (03-09)
Mrs. Rauner may have saved education funding reform (03-09)
Poll: 76 percent support a 3 percent surtax on millionaires (03-09)
Poll: Majority of Illinoisans believe in budgetary magic beans (03-09)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Madigan paying for robocalls in state central committee races (03-08)
Question of the day (03-08)
Oppo dump! (03-08)
*** UPDATED x1 - Governor's office responds *** Mendoza bill: "If an employee works in the Governor’s office, they will be paid from the Governor’s payroll" (03-08)
Mrs. Rauner's e-mail shows her thoughts on last year's staff purge (03-08)
Will Madigan's #MeToo moment pass? Or is it different this time? (03-08)
Ives TV ad may violate West Point's rules (03-08)
Illinois Chamber is helping Dunkin again (03-08)
Open thread (03-08)
*** UPDATED x2 - Fairley, Raoul respond *** Quinn launches radio ad accusing Raoul of "pay to play" (03-08)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Rep. Rita's accuser to endorse his opponent (03-08)
Illinois House Bill 4900 Increases Health Care Costs (03-08)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-08)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (03-08)
It's just a bill (03-07)
Question of the day (03-07)
Wolf opponents finally get their due (03-07)
Because... Madigan! (03-07)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Attack on Mrs. Rauner falls flat as she appears to gear up for campaign (03-07)
That time when Bambenek trolled Guccifer 2.0 (03-07)
Rauner campaign claims Pritzker "refuses to call out corruption, whether in the office of Mike Madigan or Joe Berrios" (03-07)
Duckworth, Durbin say "vague assurances" from Rauner on Quincy veterans' home are "quite simply inexcusable" (03-07)
Rauner claims his gun positions are "crystal clear" when they actually aren't (03-07)
Raoul, Quinn reiterate calls for Madigan to step down while Cullerton's money is again an issue (03-07)
More on that Madigan memo to his members about staff (03-07)
Keep the Internet open in Illinois! (03-07)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition and a few other things (03-07)
Pritzker's African-American radio ad whacks Kennedy hard (03-07)
Signs of the times (03-07)
66 percent jump in Illinois opioid emergency room visits last year (03-07)
*** UPDATED x1 - Kennedy responds *** Biss: "I can get away with really offending state employees because I don't represent that many of them" (03-07)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-07)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (03-07)
Anti-Drury ad sent to TV stations (03-07)
*** UPDATED x2 - Raoul responds to Quinn - Quinn airs response ad *** Kwame Raoul ad calls out "failed" Quinn for "illegal hiring" (03-06)
*** UPDATED x2 - Biss reports $270K - Kennedy reports $164K *** Rauner contributes $305K to Erika Harold, and other money news (03-06)
Question of the day (03-06)
The business of media (03-06)
*** UPDATED x1 - Alaina Hampton responds *** Madigan warns his members against sexual harassment of staff (03-06)
Today in Dan Proft (03-06)
"I've always loved you" (03-06)
More confusion over future of Quincy veterans' home (03-06)
We've been sold down the river by Big Pharma (03-06)
To dream the impossible dream (03-06)
Slow week, slow session expected (03-06)
Rate Chris Kennedy's new ad (03-06)
Bipartisan voter education – Support HB4469 (03-06)
Simon poll: 53 percent opposes GOP tax cut, Congressional Dems favored 43-28 (03-06)
Simon poll: 84 percent say Illinois is heading in the wrong direction, 66 percent favor legal weed (03-06)
*** UPDATED x1 - Newman slammed in new TV ad *** PPP poll: Lipinski 43, Newman 41 (03-06)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-06)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (03-06)
Rauner says Madigan is running a "Mafia protection racket" (03-05)
Jeffries: "I prefer to speak with journalists who have journalistic integrity" (03-05)
Emptying my in-box (03-05)
Rate Erika Harold's TV ad (03-05)
Question of the day (03-05)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Fundraising and event list (03-05)
PPP Cook County poll: Kennedy a close second, Biss a distant third (03-05)
Candidate question: Independent maps (03-05)
Rauner admin touts positive review from Site Selection Magazine (03-05)
Ives goes after new Chicago ID card (03-05)
Another Bruce Rauner fairy tale (03-05)
Today's quotable (03-05)
Did Rauner just tip his hand on the gun bills? (03-05)
"Three to five years" before Quincy veterans home problem will be fixed (03-05)
Rauner pledges to "hang every candidate on the Democratic ticket with Mike Madigan around their neck" (03-05)
The pros and cons of a campaign workers union (03-05)
Quinn says Madigan should step down as party chairman (03-05)
Kass: "It’s almost as if the #MeToo is all about partisan politics" (03-05)
Pritzker's path (03-05)
"We got one Democrat to stay in New York at the US Open during the vote override" (03-05)
*** UPDATED x1 - Proft responds to Trib item *** Rauner blasts Ives, who doesn't have the cash to fight back (03-05)
Unclear on the concept (03-05)
Pritzker dumps another $7 million and other campaign finance news (03-04)
Candidates get more strident, mistake-prone as election day nears (03-03)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (03-02)
Late Friday roundup: Drury ad; Dem debate; ILGA harassement; Quincy veterans; Guns & Rauner; #BissPause (03-02)
Local 150 group spending $600K to attack Scott Drury (03-02)
CMS' Hoffman put in charge of fixing Quincy veterans' home (03-02)
EEOC gives Hampton greenlight to sue MJM and DPI (03-02)
New Biss ad explains "why they're attacking me" (03-02)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Harsh hits on Zito, Silverstein, Corrigan, Reis, Lindquist, Ramirez, Rush and etc. (03-02)
Emptying my campaign in-box (03-02)
Poll: Trump's disapproval 62%, Rauner's 63%, Madigan's 68% (03-02)
Question of the day (03-02)
*** UPDATED x1 - Kennedy responds *** Kennedy puts Rauner on blast as Pritzker opens new front (03-02)
Pritzker takes flak for calling out Biss volunteer (03-02)
It's just a bill (03-02)
Cullerton called out for helping Silverstein (03-02)
Keep the Internet open in Illinois! (03-02)
Pat Quinn up with first TV ads (03-02)
Kennedy says Pritzker used "the language of racists" (03-02)
"Surging" Kennedy hauls in cash while Biss gets Bushed on CTA question (03-02)
Kennedy campaign yesterday: No staff sexual harassment training done yet; Tonight: Harassement training complete (03-02)
Brain freeze triggers talking points (03-01)
Question of the day (03-01)
Ives gets $400K, Biss raises $150K in small donations (03-01)
IEA says it helped McSweeney "kill" Rauner's pension tax shift (03-01)
Quincy newspaper: Move veterans' home residents two blocks away (03-01)
*** UPDATED x1 - RGA responds *** DGA runs expensive digital ad attacking Rauner over guns (03-01)
LaRaviere excoriates Pritzker, Emanuel in Kennedy endorsement (03-01)
A look at the Democratic candidates' many houses (03-01)
Lawmakers still trying to figure out how to deal with sexual harassment issue (03-01)
Rauner vetoes charter school limit bill (03-01)
Pritzker continues attacking Kennedy (03-01)
More questions about that Simon poll (03-01)
Gun bill roundup: Is Gov. Rauner in another trick bag? (03-01)
"Brazen" vultures killing southern Illinois calves (03-01)
Rauner calls Pritzker a "bad, bad person" (03-01)
Rauner, Madigan both claim that neither cooperated on gun bills (03-01)
Berrios wants judge to void county ethics rule on campaign cash (03-01)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-01)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (03-01)

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