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* 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

posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Oct 11, 06 @ 7:54 am

Comments

Isn’t Blankeship the one who called for Rod’s law license to be revoked even though he did not currently have one? LOL Yeah, this guys has a lot of credibility. . .NOT!

Comment by wndycty Wednesday, Oct 11, 06 @ 7:58 am
McQueary writes, “Is this the best way to fund education? No, but until you, the voters, support candidates who advocate a switch to the income tax, we will continue relying on gamblers, smokers and your rising property tax bills to fund public education. The only candidate openly supporting a classic ‘tax swap’ is the Green Party’s Rich Whitney.”

Comment by Squideshi Wednesday, Oct 11, 06 @ 8:01 am