Kudos to Guy Maras, Chair of the Lisle Democrats, and the rest of the officers and members of the township. Tonight was one of the best attended township meetings I’ve seen thus far, and I was honored to speak before you as candidate for DuPage County Board District 5 along with the other candidates […]
[Editor Note: I had originally spelled Darfur “Dafur” which I believe is incorrect, so I have corrected the spelling in this entry.]
Howard Dean today criticized the lack of action to prevent genocide in the Dafur region of Sudan. He used the occassion to show the difference between Bush and commonsense: “My challenge […]
Here’s where things stand in the Coroner race to replace retiring Coroner Richard Ballinger as best as I can tell for political endorsements (I need more DuPage Republicans to feed me info on their inner workings - for the blog of course). About 500 GOP precinct committeemen meet August 21 in Wheaton to select […]
I’ve talked before about Illinois House Republican Minority Leader Tom Cross’ people being smart, and one of their recent posts brings home a crucial issue to me. I doubt many of Howard Dean’s supporters ever listened to Howard saying “You’ve Got The Power” and envisioned a Republican Revolution as a successful result of it. […]
Political Wire caught a Boston Globe story about John Kerry’s crowds being bigger than George Bush’s, in part because they aren’t “ticketed” events. Atrios also comments on Kerry’s openness compared to Bush, calling the openness “American.”
Why should Bush engage the other side? Maybe the sum of Republicans plus Independents and Democrats is […]
Hiram Wurf
Democratic Candidate
DuPage County Board District 5
Introduction
My campaign is about bringing openness and transparency to DuPage County government. Only with openness and transparency can there be accountability, and responsive government. Without accountability, government is not “of the people” nor “by the people,” but in spite of the people.
On November 2, 2004, DuPage voters in County […]
The DuPage Republicans are offering some (interesting) candidates for Coroner, that is the position their leadership wants to eliminate because the current Coroner wouldn’t drop out for a politically connected DuPage County Board member. We’ll know their pick August 21, after Republican precinct committeemen make their choice. Here are my top 10 reasons […]
Candidate for President George W. Bush, MBA, was supposed to “usher in an era of responsibility” in 2000, and many touted his business experience as providing the necessary model. Never mind Bush was a business failure throughout his life, gaining access through family connections and, never much of a success, being bailed out by […]
Unchastened by their coverage in the service of the Bush Administration’s lead up to the Iraq War, the editors of the New York Times have seen fit to undercut Iraq War protesters with an appalling editorial. The Times editors now endorse increasing restrictions on what we once called “Freedom of Speech” in this […]
People say things sometimes that are honest, but in hindsight seem rather unfortunate. Most, if not all of us, do it. Usually, however, we don’t get the job when we’ve said we lack the intelligence skills to get it. That doesn’t seem true in the Bush Administration, at least as far as […]
