Rahm Emanuel on Bill Maher
Not his best performance by far. I think the transcript will read well, but his delivery was off - wasn’t clear whether he had a bad satellite connection, or what. Style aside, the substance was good - he was there primarily to promote his new book, The Plan. It will be interesting to see if [...]
Gayl Ferraro re-elected
Final results: 4766 to 2065.
Reporting from the county convention
This is classic. We are currently debating what rules govern the agenda, and the candidates don’t even know whether they can speak before the vote.
More in the comments.
DuPage County Democratic Convention
Tonight ought to be entertaining, it’s the county convention and it’s a contested race for county chair. As I mentioned last week, I’m backing Gayl Ferraro in her reelection effort. Her opponent, Doug Cole, doesn’t strike me as the guy we need in charge of the county party: his well-publicized antagonism of the Duckworth campaign, [...]
Ryan guilty on all counts
Wow. Watching the live video stream now from the courthouse, Governor Ryan is going to go to jail.
All politics is local
It recently came to my attention that someone who I’ve known for over 3 years is insisting that I’m working hard to undermine efforts to build a strong Democratic Party in DuPage County. This individual has repeated these claims at local meetings (of interest groups and township party meetings), as well as on e-mail mailing [...]
On unity in DuPage
Growing up in Boston in the 80s, I was a big Celtics fan. It was hard not to be: it was the team of Danny Ainge, Dennis Johnson, Kevin McHale, Bill Walton (in ‘85 and ‘86), Robert Parish and of course Larry Bird.
One thing stands out for me about the Celtics in the 80s, more [...]
Touch screens and voting accountability
Henry “raises”:http://htsblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/well-election-in-aurora-went-of.html a fascinating, and disturbing, consequence of voting by differing means, and the potential to determine exactly who someone voted for. This is a non-trivial matter, and something that needs further attention.
Election night recap
I’m crashing, been up since 4am (to catch that oh-dark-hundred flight to NYC) and am finally spent. Some quick observations on a few big winners tonight:
* Barack Obama. He backed Alexi Giannoulias over Speaker Madigan (whose candidate was Paul Mangieri). Alexi, armed with a TV ad featuring Senator Obama, won handily. That’s more than a [...]
Cegelis addresses supporters
I’m blogging all of this from a hotel room in NYC (business travel!), but just heard from Brian Sebby, who’s at Cegelis’s party. She just addressed supporters, said that things are too close and it’ll be a long night.
With only 3 DuPage precincts left (and 40% Cook precincts left), my calculations have Tammy up by [...]
