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* “The Illinois Department of Transportationâ€™s claim that cost overruns on a Chicago expressway wonâ€™t hurt downstate projects is being met with skepticism.”

* “Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), a potential mayoral candidate, on Thursday called the plan to build an Olympic stadium in Washington Park a political ploy, criticizing Mayor Richard Daley for what he said has been Daley’s long wait to help the South Side.”

* Krol: Voters will judge these episodes from Roskamâ€™s past

* “While they say they support a locally pitched plan to give high school students more time to meet state testing standards, Illinois State Board of Education members donâ€™t have the funding for it.”

* “A pair of forums involving the two hopefuls in the 10th Congressional District are set, but only one will be open to the public.”

* A walk down memory lane: “When Illinois’ new Republican Governor,Richard Ogilvie, went to Wrigley Field last week for the Chicago Cubs’ opening game, some brisk applause greeted him. ‘If I’d showed up there a week earlier,’ he observed, ‘they’d probably have thrown beer cans at me.’”

* Most labor leaders back Blagojevich

* A campaign contributor explains why he gives.

* “Lake County Clerk Willard Helander said incorrectly worded tax-rate increase questions will remain on the Nov. 7 ballot, despite calls for their removal.”

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Sep 22, 06 @ 8:06 am

Comments

RE a walk down memory lane

Quite interesting to read this reprint of a contemporary profile of the late Gov. Richard Ogilvie written in his fourth month in office in 1969. For Ogilvie, what seeds we sow… For the MSM, still clueless after all these years…

Ogilvie was being championed in this article as a “pragmatist”. His hated income tax imposition, contradicting his campaign agenda, made him a one term governor. His most famous “pragmatist” contemporary was Richard Nixon, who left office in disgrace five years later, disdained as much for his “pragmatism” as for his abuse of power. The article even suggested that the “pragmatism” of Ogilvie would supplant the conservatism of Ronald Reagan- history now shows, of course, the opposite.

The article describes Ogilvie’s planned offensive, legislative and political, against the Daley machine. Although weakened by age and the disasterous 1968 Dem Convention, Daley came out the winner on that won, and no Republican governor has bested either the Chicago Machine or the Daley family variety thereof.

Finally, the article made note of Ogilvie’s work to “reform” the Illinois Republican Party. Without mentioning what needed reform, the article does indicate that Ogilvie wanted Daley-like control of the party throughout the state, attempted through the use of “state party” functionaries. Ogilvie’s party “reforms” included the introduction of Bob Kjellander, Don Uedsten, and others onto the scene. 40 years on, with Uedsten convicted for his role in the extensive Ryan scandals and with Kjellander leaving the state party a wreck, it is painful to witness the effect of Ogilvie’s “reforms”. Had it not been so….

Comment by Conservative Republican Friday, Sep 22, 06 @ 9:25 am