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* Mayoral debate: Kids’ questions more revealing than pols’ answers

* Chicago mayoral candidates address childhood bullying at student forum - 3 mayoral hopefuls say they were bullied as a child

* Students question candidates for mayor

* In Mayoral Forum, It’s the Students Who Impress

* Debate strategy for mayoral rivals: Go after Rahm Emanuel: Braun replied, “No. Tampons. Let’s talk about Tampons. I don’t go to the NRA. This isn’t about guns. This is about Tampons and how women would feel about somebody who said that in the workplace.”

* Braun, Walls Spar at Mayoral Forum: Braun: “You have run for mayor, you have run for senate … No body knows what you’re doing. Let’s get some honesty.” Walls: “State the facts, state the facts. You got ran out of office.”

* Moseley Braun, Walls exchange heated words

* VIDEO: Carol Moseley Braun & Dock Wall heat up

* Poll: Transit Is A Major Mayoral Issue

* Black wards adding more voters, while Hispanic wards lag behind: In just 10 weeks since the November midterm elections, every ward in the city showed a jump in the number of registered voters, indicating a high level of interest in the upcoming mayoral contest.

* A New Beginning For 29th Ward

* Blagojevich trial hangs over Rahm’s campaign: Another mayoral candidate, Gery Chico, had his own Blagojevich issue. The Sun-Times has reported that Chico hosted a fund-raiser for Blagojevich the night before he was arrested. Chico told the Sun-Times he is a Democrat so it is not surprising he would host a fund-raiser for the state’s Democratic governor.

* Bill Clinton in Chicago to campaign for Emanuel

* Ethical questions arise about county ethics board

* Oak Lawn petition full of forgeries, officials say - 84 percent of signatures to eliminate village manager’s post might be invalid

* The theoretical half-life of Bill Foster’s political career

* Lipinski tells Southwest to pick up the pace

* Illinois disciplinary flaws highlighted in doctor’s sex case - State missed convicted physician’s admission of at least 3 sexual relationships with patients

* Champaign considers natural gas tax

* 13 fewer deputies on the job after layoffs: On the day 13 St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department deputies were laid off because of a budget impasse, a lawyer for the Fraternal Order of Police said no negotiations are scheduled to try to get them back on the beat.

* Workers get big boost from overtime

* The Alton Telegraph: 175 Years of Service

* Springfield inexpensive place to live, studies show: Using 100 as the national average, Springfield rated an 86. The figures for other Illinois communities were: Chicago, 113; Kankakee, 100; Peoria, 100; Champaign-Urban, 98; Bloomington-Normal, 97; Decatur, 93; Rockford, 91; Danville, 89; and East St. Louis area, 87. According to local economic development groups and the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce, the relatively low cost of electricity from City, Water Light and Power is a major factor in the Springfield figure.

* Fix is in for Capitol offices: Senate Republicans are flooded out of their third-floor Capitol offices for the next two weeks, even as senators and staff are gearing up for the start of a new session. About two dozen GOP staff members will have to be relocated to other areas of the Capitol complex while workers dry out offices soaked by a sprinkler system pipe that broke last week.

* Chef creates ‘invasivore‘ dinner, but experts say that’s not the way to halt finned intruders

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Jan 18, 11 @ 5:58 am

Comments

Since Comments are off on today’s Subscriber post, I guess I’ll put this here. In the last paragraph of the “Controversy” item, it says:

“That would appear to conflict with the Illinois Constitution, which states that nominations “not acted upon by the Senate within 60 session days after the receipt thereof shall be deemed to have received the advice and consent of the Senate.” The Constitution would seem to keep the clock ticking on the appointees regardless of the changeover in new General Assemblies and would confirm Monken and the others if the Senate fails to act.”

If that is true, then the Governor should have appointed everybody on the last day before the Senate adjourned. That would start the clock. After the old Senate adjourned, the new Senate would come in and be unable to hear the old appointments (since they were addressed to a different General Assembly). Then they could run out the 60 session days, get automatically confirmed, and the Senate couldn’t do anything to stop it.

Either the quote is mistaken, or Quinn just threw away a golden opportunity to force all his appointees past the Senate.

Comment by Seneca Tuesday, Jan 18, 11 @ 7:20 am
===Either the quote is mistaken===

The quote comes directly from the Constitution. Look it up.

Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Jan 18, 11 @ 7:23 am
‘Tampons. Let’s talk about Tampons….’

No, (fmr) Sen. Braun, let’s don’t, and not even say we did. If it’s not allowed at the RD’s dinner table, then it isn’t good fodder for a debate.

Comment by Returning Dog Tuesday, Jan 18, 11 @ 7:56 am
Why is it not good fodder for a debate? It’s in a book, did Rahm say it? Because his comment is horribly offensive to women. If it were a racial comment you can bet that it would not only be debate fodder, it would be grounds for dismissal. The only question about the tampon comment is….what is the truth? and it is completely proper to ask Rahm the question.

Comment by amalia Tuesday, Jan 18, 11 @ 8:56 am
Also, Chicago Alderman Gene Schulter will NOT run for re-election in the 47th Ward. Instead he is angling for a seat on the Board of Review…which would be intriguing because he endorsed Claypool over Berrios for Assessor.

Comment by Free Ike Carrothers Tuesday, Jan 18, 11 @ 10:10 am
I disagree with the kids impressive part. Some of them struggled to read the questions which is unacceptable for 16 and 17 year olds.

Comment by shore Tuesday, Jan 18, 11 @ 12:51 pm
Shore, a couple of the kids struggled with the questions, but plenty of were bright and articulate — the same for adults. But the articles afterwards were right on — the candidates spoke only in generalizations and offered no specifics. The kids, at least those interviewed afterwards, were smart enough to see that.

Comment by Just Observing Tuesday, Jan 18, 11 @ 2:52 pm
It is simply incredible how Blago was able to anti-midas everything and everyone he touched, except perhaps Quinn. What was Chico thinking? How could he be so dumb as to have a funder for Blago-at that time.

Comment by Phineas J. Whoopee Tuesday, Jan 18, 11 @ 4:21 pm
“It’s in a book, did Rahm say it?”

Don’t know, wasn’t there. Judging from Rahm’s public image, I’d say, ‘yeah, sounds right.’ Did he even say it when women we’re around?

“Why is it not good fodder for a debate?”

It’s a loser for her even if she wins. We already know he’s brash, it’s nothing new. We’ve heard he called some of Barack’s base ‘retards’, that he curses like a sailor, and then there’s the Saturday Night Live caricature.

It’s a loser because 50% of the population is not too comfortable with ‘girl talk’. Another 50% of the population, and maybe more, are annoyed with the school of identity politics that takes umbrage for the sake of taking umbrage.

She’s reinforcing a point that doesn’t need reinforced, and in the process becoming ‘that yucky lady who brought up tampons’.

Comment by Returning Dog Tuesday, Jan 18, 11 @ 7:07 pm
I’d like to rate Rahm’s new ad, but I can’t get throgh it w/o lauging

Comment by Wumpus Tuesday, Jan 18, 11 @ 7:16 pm
oh, yeah, cause saying something sexist when a female is not around is ok. and “that yucky lady who brought up tampons?” seriously? it’s the first thing Braun has said that makes me think her brain is working.

more people need to ask Rahm about the tampon comment. not fewer. it’s not brash, it’s sexist!

Comment by amalia Tuesday, Jan 18, 11 @ 8:31 pm
Yes. Seriously.

Leveling the charge sticks to her, and doesn’t harm him. If she was smart, she’d have her surrogates and stringers in the press play this card for her.

Men are a mysterious bunch. They don’t cotton to tampon talk, but challenging others’ masculinity to motivate them is all good - even if tampons are mentioned. Sexist? Maybe.
But how do you shame a man into working harder - AND _not_ offend _someone_? (women, gays, the lazy, the mentally deficient, the handicapped, the children?)

Comment by Returning Dog Tuesday, Jan 18, 11 @ 9:35 pm
Sexist? not maybe, absolutely. but Tampon Rahm is not in this company alone. Bobby Knight was famous for hanging tampons in the lockers of players who, in his opinion, were doing a bad job. It’s digging at a male by calling him a female and therefore weak. it is certainly unusual but it is most certainly horrid bad behavior. and sexist. were is something racist, you know, like putting some watermelon in a locker, or telling someone to go eat their watermelon, there would be huge handwringing. Braun may well play it better by having others do the work. But every once in a while it’s nice to see someone call a sexist a sexist. and she sure did that.

as for how to shame a man into working harder, I’m sure glad I don’t work with you. it is never permissible to offend women, LGBT, intellectually challenged, physically challenged, children, really, anyone. shaming by destroying others is just plain mean. why not try telling someone they have to work harder, you know, managing as an adult.

Comment by amalia Tuesday, Jan 18, 11 @ 10:38 pm
Work for me? Don’t knock it until you try it. Everyone I’ve ever managed has raved about the experience - especially the skirts!

In sincerity, though, don’t mistake my explanation of the way things woik’ in some environments as my personal style. Motivating males in certain environments (sports, military, blue collar, sales) will often tend to ‘meanness’ at the expense of political correctness.

If my sons or daughters are going off to war, I sure as hell don’t want them trained by Sergeants who aren’t ‘mean’.

Comment by Returning Dog Tuesday, Jan 18, 11 @ 11:43 pm