Tribune declares for Shannon
Congrats to Joe Shannon, who the Tribune is declaring a victor in the 13th Congressional primary.
I voted!
Just got back from voting. Our primary isn’t for another week, but I wanted to test out the Diebold machines that DuPage County contracted to use last year. No, this isn’t dirty political tricks, it’s called “Early Voting”:http://cms.dupageelections.com/pages.asp?pageid=1130 (not to be confused with absentee voting, or absentee-in-person voting). Confused? Yeah, most people are when they [...]
On winning elections
Michael Cousineau asks me “why I wrote”:http://www.soapblox.net/chicago/showDiary.do?diaryId=1057 about Christine’s Q4 numbers. Mostly to provoke a discussion, which, thanks to Rich Miller and Michael picking up on my comments, it has. (For better or for worse.) It is certainly not out of animosity towards Christine (quite the contrary, I personally like her and did work on [...]
IL-06 numbers are in
Some of the numbers are in for the 6th Congressional Democrats. And while I’ve been a supporter of Christine’s in the past, I have to say these numbers don’t look good:
* Raised: $68k
* Spent: $77k
* Cash on hand: $39k
* Debts owed: $39k
Once you subtract debts from cash on hand, the Cegelis campaign has $184.54.
Lindy Scott, [...]
Tammy Duckworth endorsed by AFL-CIO
Rich at Capitol Fax has the scoop: the AFL-CIO just “endorsed Tammy Duckworth”:http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2006/01/10/this-just-in-duckworth-gets-afl-cio-nod/ in the primary race where she’s running against Christine Cegelis and Lindy Scott.
Duckworth website
Just found Tammy Duckworth’s website “here”:http://www.duckworthforcongress.com/. There’s some info on her stance “on the issues”:http://www.duckworthforcongress.com/community_issues.html, and a collection of “news items”:http://www.duckworthforcongress.com/press.html as well. According to the “events”:http://www.duckworthforcongress.com/happenings.html page, she’ll be doing her formal campaign kick-off at campaign headquarters in Lombard today at 1pm.
Memo to DNC: Go get some coffee
The reactions to my comments about Tammy Duckworth’s campaign sure have been interesting. As expected, some of the comments (and private e-mails, of which there have been a number) express support for Christine and dismay at the DCCC’s handling of the race, a few have expressed support for Major Duckworth, and a few even addressed [...]
Tammy Duckworth running for Congress
*Update 12/19/05:* Lots of incoming traffic looking for info on Maj. Duckworth. Her campaign website is “here”:http://www.duckworthforcongress.com/, ArchPundit interviews Tammy “here”:http://www.archpundit.com/archives/013134.html (follow the links to snippets from the interview), and Rich at Capitol Fax interviewed her on Friday, details (and lots of comments) are “here”:http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2005/12/16/this-just-in-3/.
As many readers of this blog know, when not running around [...]
Link love
Any man who “calls me God”:http://capitolfax.blogspot.com/2005/09/blog-roundup.html is OK in my book. I’m not entirely sure what I’ve done to earn such high praise, but it sure made my Friday. Rich, for the three of you left in Illinois who don’t know, “consistently writes the best insider’s look”:http://capitolfax.blogspot.com/ at Illinois politics. It’s not only where the [...]
Illinois Democratic Party Website
Lots of “comments”:http://www.wurfwhile.com/archives/000664.html “recently”:http://capitolfax.blogspot.com/2005/08/petitioning-party.html about the Democratic Party of Illinois’ uninspiring web efforts to date.
I’ve “written”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2004/08/09/joincrosstv.php “about”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2005/01/06/illinois_democrats_rule_in_washington.php “this”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2004/09/28/take_back_illinois_-_the_game.php, in the past (as have a bunch of others), but never has someone taken the time to spell out in great detail what should be done. Larry Handlin at ArchPundit “took the time”:http://www.archpundit.com/archives/012803.html, and the result is [...]
