Naperville needs Democrats
I couldn’t stop chuckling at “this article”:http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/362818,6_1_NA29_DURBIN_S1.article in yesterday’s Naperville Sun:
With Democrats controlling all three prongs of Illinois government - the House, the Senate and the governor’s administration - Naperville needs an insider to fight for the city, Mayor George Pradel said.
“It makes so much sense (having) Democrats down there,” Pradel said. “They know [...]
200th DNA exoneration tomorrow
Today’s Chicago Tribune has “a remarkable article”:http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0704220040apr22,1,1593274.story?coll=chi-news-hed about the exoneration of Jerry Miller. Miller, an Army veteran who’d never been convicted of a crime, was identified in a police line-up by two eye-witnesses, and ended up serving 25 years in prison before being cleared by DNA collected at the scene of the crime. “The Innocence [...]
Grassroots AdSense Strategy
Browsing a news article today about Barack Obama’s swing through New Hampshire, I was struck by the AdSense ad block on the right: an ad for Barack’s own site at “BarackObama.com”:http://www.barackobama.com/, an ad for “DraftObama.org”:http://www.draftobama.org/, a site run by my buddy Ben Stanfield designed to encourage the Senator to run for President, and an intriguing [...]
Illinois politics: Truth is way stranger than fiction
Since many readers of this blog aren’t local, you may not be familiar with the cornucopia of political plotlines brewing in Illinois. Here’s a rundown on just the last couple months in Illinois politics:
Ex-Governor (Ryan), who had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (for his work to reform the death penalty system in Illinois), [...]
Hastert: The buck stops… over there
I guess when he says he “takes full responsibility” he really means he’s going to take responsibility for “firing”:http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/10/congress.pages.ap/index.html other people. Nice guy.
He used to teach and coach at the high school level. Can anyone - Republican or Democrat - honestly say that if this were going on in a high school that the principal [...]
Hastert Robo Call in the 14th
Wow. Check out this “robocall”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/files/cdn-HastertRobocall.mp3 that the Dennis “The Buck Stops Here” Hastert campaign put out last night to “take responsibility”. That’s “take responsibility” as in “I take full responsibility for placing blame for a Republican congressman trying to engage in underage sex with teenage boys at the feet of Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton”. [...]
Stepping down
I recently stepped down as Chair of the Naperville Democrats. This was a really tough decision to make, as I remain convinced that the local party needs to be a visible part of the local scene. But it’s that commitment that made me realize I’m no longer the right guy for the job: as we [...]
Party orthodoxy
I can’t even begin to count the ways this angers and depresses me. Getting off the train last night, I found a piece of note paper tucked under my windshield wiper. Written on the sheet of paper:
“Democrats shouldn’t drive Jap cars!”
And on the other side:
“Asshole!”
Sad. Just sad. (My car - yes, a Japanese car - [...]
DuPage County Government, hard at work
Hiram did a great job accounting for the GOP’s “failure to govern responsibly”:http://www.wurfwhile.com/archives/001009.html in DuPage County, but it comes at a time when others are (quite justifiably) raising questions about the Democrats’ “failure to contest”:http://www.dailyherald.com/news/dupagestory.asp?id=195388&cc=d&tc=&t= the vast majority of county races (the Tribune had “similar coverage”:http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/west/chi-0606060200jun06,1,4594299.story?coll=chi-newslocalwest-hed). I’m a local party official, so I certainly share [...]
Aurora Drive-In
In the “comments”:http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8854980&postID=114585878768645535 over at the “OpenLine blog”:http://openline.blogspot.com/2006/04/weisner-wants-to-kill-drive-in-theater.html, Aurora Alderman “Stephanie Kifowit”:http://www.aurora-il.org/aldermen/ward_three.asp chimes in with a comment to clarify what’s going on, and what the options are. I had a chance to meet Stephanie back when Richard Irvin was running for Aurora mayor (she was a supporter of Richard’s), and found her to be a [...]
