Democratic National Committee Meets in Chicago
From Lynn Sweet's blog.
Washington, DC - Members of the Democratic National Committee will gather in Chicago for the DNC's annual summer meeting August 17-19, to organize and energize Democrats to win up and down the ballot this November. Chairman Howard Dean will address the general session Saturday along with Governor Rod Blagojevich, Mayor Richard Daley, Reverend Jesse Jackson, House Candidate and New Mexico Attorney General Patsy Madrid, and Ohio Secretary of State Candidate Jennifer Brunner, among others. In Chicago, DNC members will participate in community service activities, hold constituency and regional caucus meetings, and vote on proposed resolutions, the 2008 Delegate Selection Rules, and the Call for the 2008 Democratic National Convention.So how do seeing some of these faces on local TV impact local congressional races? Dean has always come off sounding odd to me. Blagojevich, well, go below; we're all speculating on his indictment.
Daley is our local Republicans favorite Democrat. The Soap Blog Chicago folks think he's in cahoots with Wal Mart; and after all Bush did visit to cut birthday cake with him.
Jackson, well, you can get a strong reaction on him from white and black alike. Watching him on TV with Bobbie Steele I was just taken with how literally old and creaky Liberalism had become.
So what happens with these folks out there doing community service activities in cynical Chicago.
15 comments:
Blago's probably pretty safe from indictments between now and August 17th. Between now and November 7th is another story.
...but the speculation has started.
Do people have a sense of giving Ryan a free pass on these questions when he ran against Poshard?
It's going to be awful hard to keep a straight face and talk about a culture of corruption with the Gov sitting up there.
some of us should go down and live blog this by the way.... if it's open to public.
Bill,
Please advise as to the steps taken, if any, by Judy Baar Topinka and Pete Roskam to root out corruption in the Ryan administration or in the Du Page Republican organization.
Don't bother trying to answer. We both knew they did nothing. With candidates like that, Republicans are burying themselves even deeper in Illinois, where the ILGOP is already the weakest Republican party in the country.
We both knew they did nothing,
That's an accomplishment in itself in Illinois: knowing a Pol did nothing.
JBT survived to run; and no one speculating on her indictment.
Bill,
She sat and watched the corruption. She did nothing to stop it, even though the Ryan Administration was overrun with corruption.
Is that the sort of person we want leading Illinois? Is that the sort of person who will bring change?
Your attitude shows completely why the ILGOP is the worst run major political party in the U.S. You are ready and willing to back people who tolerate corruption.
You are ready and willing to back people who tolerate corruption.
So we should vote for Blagojevich?
Or you in the 17% lining up behind a third party?
So we should vote for Blagojevich?
Or you in the 17% lining up behind a third party?
If federal indictments against Blagojevich are to come -- and I sure wouldn't bet against them -- a vote for Blago is a vote for Quinn.
Or at least that's how I will probably justify my casting any ballot in the governor's race.
Well Austin,
If Quinn (who I like) doesn't speak out, isn't he fitting Skeeter's criteria of people who tolerate corruption.
Your vote is a a vote for a violater of the Skeeter doctrine with hopes the real Quinn will come out after the indictment...
Bill,
Does corruption matter or not?
What is your answer?
If you are against corruption, then you cannot vote for either Topinka or Roskam, because neither did a thing while Ryan and the Du Page Republicans pillaged Illinois.
Bill,
I don't know if you've read the papers recently.
Blago has not been charged with any crimes.
Ryan and his Du Page County pals have been.
skeeter's putting himself in a trick box on Blago. I don't know what Topinka was supposed to when Ryan was accused of wrongdoing; he wasn't indicted until after he left office, and once he was indicted, she divested herself of campaign contributions he had given to her over the years. Blago, like Ryan, now stands accused but not indicted. Perhaps, when the Blago indictments start falling, skeeter will ... well, what will poor skeeter do? What is he doing now to show his distance from the corruption of this governor? Maybe, in the not-so-distant future, we'll all have to shun poor skeeter, who stood idly by and did nothing while Blago and his cronies looted the state.
...skeeter's putting himself in a trick box...
He doesn't see the signs for mines.
When Skeeter is elected to public office then we can talk about what Skeeter has done.
JBT was an elected official. So was Roskam. They didn't do a thing. It seems to me that the obligation of an elected official to respond to corruption within his own party is greater than the obligation of a part time blogger.
Somehow you all want to talk about me though. Of course, if my party was running JBT and Roskam, I would talk about everything but the candidates too.
But skeeter, it's not just you. Dems control all but one statewide office. Jesse White and Pat Quinn may be thinking more about retirement than running for higher office, but Lisa Madigan and Dan Hynes are both in their 30's and likely hope to have long careers ahead of them. Not to mention all those House and Senate members who may one day run for higher office. If you truly believe that Judy Baar Topinka has to pay for not "doing more" when George Ryan was in office, then what will you say when the Blagojevich indictments start hitting? That all those young and ambitious Dems are tainted and should hide in shame? What should they be doing now to clean up government?
I mean, if that's your argument, then follow it to its logical end. Perhaps you will say that they shouldn't do anything, because Blagojevich hasn't been indicted yet. But that's where Topinka and Roskam are/were.
But the real question is, how much is enough? Because it will haunt your party, too.
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