GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - May 17, 2008
TAPROOT REPUBLICANS OF ILLINOIS
-- OUTSTANDING: Senator Chris Lauzen speaks at TAPROOT breakfast meeting - Dave Diersen
www.gopillinois.com
(THE ARTICLE: At TAPROOT's breakfast meeting Saturday, May 17, at the Old Country Buffet in Lombard, State Senator Chris Lauzen gave an outstanding presentation on the Illinois Republican Party and its upcoming convention. Look forward to a report on Senator Lauzen's outstanding presentation from TAPROOT Communications Director George Kocan. Attendees included Carolyn Connell, Dave Diersen, Bob Graham, Dick Hawks, Marilyn Rickert, Bob Schmidt, Gloria Sciqousky, Carl Segvich, Bob Shelstrom, and Tim Whelan. Please stop by the TAPROOT table at the Illinois Republican Party convention Friday and Saturday, June 6 & 7, in Decatur. TAPROOT's next breakfast meeting will be June 21.)
ILLINOIS REVIEW
-- The 2008 IL GOP Platform -- part 1 - Fran Eaton
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/05/the-2008-il-gop.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: No, we don't have the platform. At least not one I've seen yet. It's three weeks until the June 6 state convention in Decatur, and as a delegate from Bremen Township, what I will be asked to vote on matters to me. One thing I'll be asked to do is accept or reject the 2008 IL GOP Platform. So, I began reviewing our 2004 IL GOP Platform, and began remembering what a chaos the process was that year. I observed as a reporter, and it was crazy. The members of the platform committee didn't know what was being proposed, and only the chairman, now-Metro East Judge Steve McGlynn, knew what was going on. Everyone else was in the dark until just days before the convention. By then, it was too late for concerned platform committee members to do other than accept the proposed wording. This year we're hearing the platform committee members are being kept in the dark about the rewriting process again. The party has had four years to prepare for this convention, so there isn't much of an excuse for the up until now lack of communication -- unless the intent is to limit discussion once again. I've been told that in the past there was a concerted effort among IL GOP staffers to keep convention delegates and platform committee members in the dark about the platform so as to keep discussion, debate and "divisiveness" from edging its way into IL GOP's Big Tent. The platform is the IL GOP's foundation. It's important what we believe, what we're going to stand for, and what we propose for the future. It certainly matters to me as a delegate what I will be identifying publicly with -- and its important that I - and every other convention delegate - know what we're voting on in plenty of time before June 6th. The state party asked this week for proposed changes to the platform. Let's discuss it here over the next few days, starting with Page 1. What would you change in this first section? Please comment on this section only under this post. We'll get to the others, too. We promise.)
-- Minutemen Welcome an American Hero to Chicago - Rosanna Pulido
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/05/minutemen-welco.html#more
-- McAloon Calls For State Budget Process To Be Open to the Public - Fran Eaton
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/05/mcaloon-calls-f.html
EXTREME WISDOM
-- The Future of Tom Cross' and Frank Watson's Republican Party - Bruno Behrend
http://www.extremewisdom.com/?p=1179 (Includes video clip)
DUPAGE COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: DuPage County Republican Party Chairman Dan Cronin reports on the June 6-7 Illinois Republican Party convention, the September 1-4 national Republican Party convention, the March 5 DuPage County Republican Convention, new township party chairmen, the first annual DuPage County Republican Women's Dinner and Fashion Show, intern Doug Johnson, the recent leadership retreat, the new website, and volunteer opportunities
http://www.dupagegop.com/press.htm
TENNESSEE GOP
-- "Proud of my Country" video clip
http://www.youtube.com/tennesseeGOP
STEVE GREENBERG CAMPAIGN
-- Greenberg Fundraiser Nets $175,000
http://www.steveforus.com/newsDetail.aspx?newsID=3764
SOUTHTOWN STAR
-- Gay marriage by another name - Fran Eaton
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/eaton/955185,051708eaton.article
CBS2
-- Same-Sex Marriages Likely A Long Way Off In Illinois - Mike Flannery
http://cbs2chicago.com/politics/gay.marriage.illinois.2.726086.html (Includes video clip)
(FROM THE ARTICLE: State Rep. Greg Harris is sponsor of a bill to legalize gay marriage, but says he probably won't call it in Springfield because it doesn't have the votes to pass. On the other hand, he said he might call his House Bill 1826, legalizing civil unions, which would grant same-sex couples certain, what he called, limited, rights. "Illinois is not ready for same-sex marriage yet. Certainly the legislature was not when I did my roll call there. But people are willing to talk about extending certain basic concepts [like] fairness," Harris said. Ralph Rivera's one of the leading foes of gay marriage, opposition that he says is based in part on the Bible, especially the books of Genesis, Leviticus and a letter from St. Paul to the Corinthians. "It's a bad idea," Rivera said. "It's something that the legislators in the general assembly do not support; they are very much in the majority being opposed to this.")
DAILY HERALD
-- FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Will gays wed here? California gay marriage ruling will affect Illinois - David Beery
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=192673&src=109
(FROM THE ARTICLE: "Look back to 2004 and you'll see how Massachusetts' (legalization of gay marriage) was the catalyst for 11 more states to amend their constitutions," David Smith, of the Glen Ellyn-based Illinois Family Institute, said Friday. "It created a significant backlash, and this will, too." . . . State Sen. Bill Brady, a Bloomington Republican and likely gubernatorial aspirant for 2010, said Friday he will initiate next year another drive for a constitutional ban. The California ruling, Brady said, "gives more credence to the fact that we need to strengthen the constitution based on the wishes of voters and not leave it to a court.")
-- Recall gives people power to reform - State Sen. Dan Cronin, Elmhurst
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=192485
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
-- Good news for gays; bad news for Dems - Eric Zorn
http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2008/05/good-news-for-g.html
-- Gay advocates hope California ruling will boost civil union legislation here - Monique Garcia
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-local-gay-marriage-webmay16,0,1349051.story
-- Obama, McCain tangle anew on national security Rivals fire from afar on Mideast policy - Rick Pearson
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-campaign_satmay17,0,1661829.story
-- 'They want to . . . pimp us' - Editorial
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/chi-0517edit1may17,0,4611948.story
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
-- OUTRAGEOUS: Lawmaker looks to seniors in bid for civil unions bill - Kathleen Haughney
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/05/16/news/doc482cfae212071266720001.txt
BEACON NEWS
-- Birkett, the prosecutor out of line - Editorial
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/news/opinions/952398,2_4_AU16_EDIT_S1.article
HERALD NEWS
-- VERY SAD: Legislators will discuss $25 billion (TAX AND SPEND) plan in Joliet
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/955388,4_1_JO17_JOBS_S1.article
-- Mokena businessman and Republican 11th Congressional District candidate Martin Ozinga III will have to give a deposition in a Marshall County lawsuit. - Gary Smith
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/955043,4_1_JO17_OZINGA_S1.article
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
-- Scalia to speak at Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum on Tuesday, May 20
http://www.sj-r.com/homepage/x273552360/Scalia-to-speak-at-Abraham-Lincoln-Presidential-Museum
MORRIS DAILY HERALD
-- Ozinga lays foundation for campaign Says Halvorson at opposite end of the spectrum - Jo Ann Hustis
http://www.morrisdailyherald.com/articles/2008/05/17/news/473dozinga.txt
JACKSONVILLE JOURNAL COURIER
-- Rep. Jim Watson hopeful on Iraq - Kate Ramsay
http://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/seven_18315___article.html/watson_rep.html
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
-- Minnesota governor offers advice for GOP - Greg J. Borowski
http://blogs.jsonline.com/allpoliticswatch/archive/2008/05/16/minnesota-governor-offers-advice-for-gop.aspx
MADISON CAPITAL TIMES
-- GOP has high hopes for McCain to win Wisconsin Party convention in Stevens Point this weekend - John Nichols
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/286754
DELUTH NEWS TRIBUNE
-- Bush’s spending turns conservative and liberal labels upside down - Francis G. Florey
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id=66686§ion=Opinion
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: Because the Democrat Party platform is so vehemently anti-Evangelical Christian, the recent "Evangelical Manifesto" should have called for Evangelical Christians to not contribute to Democrats or vote for Democrats
http://blog.cleveland.com/lifestyles/2008/05/evangelicals_lament_a_politici.html
AMERICAN THINKER
-- Can McCain be tamed? - Nancy Thorner
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/05/can_mccain_be_tamed.html
NEW YORK TIMES
-- House Approves Tax on "the Rich" to Aid G.I.’s - Carl Hulse
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/washington/16cong.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin
-- Huckabee Jokes About Obama Ducking Gunfire - Sarah Wheaton
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/huckabee-targets-obama-with-gun-joke/
-- In Huckabee Joke, Gun Aims at Obama Elizabeth Bumiller and Sarah Wheaton
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/us/politics/17huckabee.html?ref=us
LOS ANGELES TIMES
-- "Fully 58% of voters in a May Rasmussen Reports poll said they thought Obama had dropped Wright only because the connection was damaging to him politically."
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-ed-obama17-2008may17,0,3396517.story
NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE
-- Whole Lotta Lincoln Lincoln's bicentennial will be packed with books, exhibitions, debates, contests and a Spielberg movie. - Karen Springen
http://www.newsweek.com/id/137186
NEWSMAX
-- Mike Reagan: I Am Disgusted with California
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Reagan_same_sex_marriage/2008/05/16/96599.html?s=al&promo_code=6284-1
THE WEEK
-- Why Muslims may not cheer for Obama - Edward Luttwak
http://www.theweekdaily.com/news_opinion/best_us/41799/why_muslims_may_not_cheer_for_obama.html
