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NoMoreHacks in Illinois
The Illinois Republican Party has done a great job applying public pressure on Illinois Democrats in the wake of the arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. They have started a website, friendofblago.com, and are running the TV ad below. Here’s what liberal Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mark Brown said about the party.
Showing themselves more [...]
On Rod Blagojevich’s birthday, Illinois regroups
As readers of this blog know, I have written often over the past several years about Rod Blagojevich. I was convinced he would be indicted someday and said so. From my days as a spokesman for former Il. Attorney General Jim Ryan—who Blago defeated in the Il. governor’s race in 2002—it was apparent [...]
Who will hold Daley accountable for O’Hare?
When will Mayor Daley, dozens of other Illinois politicians and the Chicago media establishment pay a price for the O’Hare International Airport expansion plan, a public policy blunder of epic proportions.
Just as former U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald and a few others said years ago, the plan eventually would collapse because it was economically and operationally [...]
Malpractice by Chicago newspapers
Newsweek today reported that a new lawsuit reveals for the first time that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is interested in the same day house and lot purchase by Barack Obama and convicted felon Tony Rezko.
A recent lawsuit filed by Kenneth J. Conner, a former real estate analyst, against Mutual Bank of Harvey, Ill., for [...]
Biden’s Rezko problems
Joe Biden’s ties to the Tony Rezko scandal were reported on in the last 24 hours by the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, and Daily Herald. The accounts focused on Joe Cari, a longtime Democratic fundraiser.
Biden has described himself as a 30-year friend of a key figure in the Rezko trial who’s pleaded guilty to [...]
He already brought us change!
From the liberal New Yorker today, revealing that Barack Obama was one of the architects of that reform-minded, change-oriented administration in Illinois run by the man we (and U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald) like to refer to as “Public Official A.”
That year, he gained his first high-level experience in a statewide campaign when he advised the [...]
Blago’s desperation strategy
To occupy his time before the federal government indicts him, Governor Rod Blagojevich has begun employing the last-ditch pandering strategy of his predecessor, imprisoned former Governor George Ryan.
He is going straight to the African-American community, giving it a new program, and playing the victim. The paltry number of summer jobs he is talking about [...]
Obama’s predecessor the real change agent
Ironically, the person most responsible for change in Illinois was Barack Obama’s predecessor, former US Senator Peter Fitzgerald, a Republican.
The more the pay-to-play investigation into Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s campaign/administration unfolds, the more that becomes apparent. The more evidence that emerges, the more it places Obama on the side of status quo/corruption and shows just [...]
Someone finally calls out Quinn
For the first time I can remember, someone in the Illinois media pointed out the stunning hypocrisy of Illinois Lt. Gov. Patrick Quinn.
This is from the lead paragraph of a David Mendell story in today’s Tribune. Mendell is an excellent reporter who regularly writes a straight, tough story. He wrote the best Barack [...]
Will Illinois Dems pay the price for corruption?
Illinois has entered a golden age of corruption, with scandals raging at the state and city of Chicago level. All levers of power in Illinois—Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller, Treasurer, Secretary of State, Senate and House are controlled by Democrats, as is the Mayor’s office in Chicago. Yet the brand name of Democrats in [...]
