A report from the State House:
The Franks-Froehlich Bill (HB4717), requiring collar county boards vote to receive the quarter point sales tax increase that passed with the recent Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) Act, was dealt a major setback today in the House Mass Transit Committee. Collar counties normally supporting local control appear not to want […]
You can read the article here. The article was before today’s appeal by Senator Dick Durbin for Bill Foster - which as of now (past 11 PM) has 385 donors who have contributed over $19,000.
Clout Street writes that both Jim Oberweis and Bill Foster are mostly financing their campaigns for the special election. That’s not the story. The story is that Jim Oberweis, who has run for U.S. Senator (2002, 2004) and governor (2006) still lags in non-candidate fundraising behind Bill Foster who is making his first […]
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin sent out an email today that has raised $17,892 from 342 donors for Congressional Candidate Bill Foster (as of 8 PM tonight). The average donation was just over $52. It’s not too late to join in and help Bill Foster! Read what Senator Durbin has to say below and […]
I have met OneMan socially a few times and I like him - he’s a decent guy. While we often disagree on policy, sometimes we agree, and I think he speaks with integrity regardless. Two days ago OneMan wrote,
“We are not going to be having any public forums before the special election. Foster […]
[Yes, I recognize the potential for parody here - if it comes and isn’t brutal, I’ll be good natured about it]
I don’t know when it started and it’s now prevalent enough that I assume it must work, but I’m getting more and more political email solicitations replying (Re:) or forwarding (Fw:) in the subject line […]
Oberweis Dairy demands its dairy farmers pledge “If a cow gets sick, we will treat her back to health using the best available medicines….”
[Click picture above to see original.]
Jim Oberweis supports health care for all cows in his business. But the Chicago Tribune points out Jim Oberweis is against employers providing health care insurance […]
This Naperville Sun article is an interesting story about how the all-Republican DuPage County Board works - or doesn’t. In a nutshell, there’s a roughly $800,000 to $950,000 contract for providing meals to the DuPage County Jail. Aramark, a national company that has provided food to the jail for 21 years, recently submitted […]
Republican John McCain since the 106th Congress (1999) has gotten scores varying from 6% to 56% in each congress for his votes from the League of Conservation Voters - until this past first session of the 110th Congress (2007). In 2007 John McCain got a zero. Worse, as the Sierra Club has also […]
I like Matt’s take on this:
“Whether or not you think the more ’seasoned’ candidate ought to win presidential elections, it seems to me that any campaign staffer who could be genuinely ‘baffled’ by experience not proving to be a winning issue is demonstrating a scary ignorance of how things work. Is [Hillary Clinton’s] staff baffled […]
