GOPUSA ILLINOIS Dailt Clips - August 14, 2008
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
-- Ron Smith resigns as the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee Member for the 6th Congressional District; Chris Kachiroubas elected to fill the vacancy - Dave Diersen
www.gopillinois.com
Ron Smith has resigned as the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee Member for the 6th Congressional District. DuPage County Circuit Court Clerk Chris Kachiroubas was elected on Tuesday, August 12 to fill the vacancy.
-- Pat Brady and Demetra DeMonte sponsor and Tom Cross and Frank Watson co-sponsor an outstanding picnic at the Pasfield House in Springfield; attendees include Birkett, Blankenship, Bill Brady, Dan Brady, Chisum, Dillard, Durkin, Fortner, Gidwitz, Kachiroubas, Murphy, Pankau, Pollard, Radogno, Sauerberg, Sheahan, Syverson, and Winters - Dave Diersen
www.gopillinois.com
Illinois National Committeeman elect Pat Brady and Illinois National Committeewoman elect Demetra DeMonte sponsored and House Republican Leader Tom Cross and Senate Republican Leader Frank Watson co-sponsored an outstanding picnic at the Pasfield House in Springfield Wednesday evening, August 13. Attendees included Joe Birkett, Greg Blankenship, Bill Brady, Dan Brady, Tolbert Chisum, Kirk Dillard, Jim Durkin, Mike Fortner, Ron Gidwitz, Chris Kachiroubas, Matt Murphy, Carol Pankau, Randy Pollard, Christine Radogno, Steve Sauerberg, Brien Sheahan, Dave Syverson, and Dave Winters.
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
-- Just unity day in Springfield: Local Democrats continue to fight - Abdon Pallasch and Dave McKinney
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/1105939,dems081308.article
-- Booed and shunned: It's no day for gov at State Fair Dem rally shows total lack of unity - Abdon Pallasch and Dave McKinney
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/1107362,CST-NWS-dems14.article
DAILY HERALD
-- Democrat infighting continues at state fair - John Patterson
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=227488&src=109
-- Sen. Link campaign workers indicted for forging names on petitions - Tony Gordon
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=227391
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
-- Democrats' showing at state fair a festival of dysfunction No progress on $25 billion public works plan - Rick Pearson and Ray Long
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-state-construction-14aug14,0,5868701.story
-- The problem of 'forced intimacy' and gays in the military - Elaine Donnelly
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0814gayaug14,0,5487863.story
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
-- 2 Rochester students ask gov, ‘Where’s the money?’ Richardson boosts ObamaMaureen Murphy Condolences - Bernard Schoenburg
http://www.sj-r.com/news_columnists/x1570386613/Bernard-Schoenburg-2-Rochester-students-ask-gov-Where-s-the-money
-- Democrats have their day But several state party leaders skip the fair - Doug Finke and Adrianna Colindres
http://www.sj-r.com/homepage/x1485137249/Democrats-have-their-day
CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS
-- ‘Guv Chavez’ leads race to bottom among budget blunders - Greg Hinz
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=30586
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
-- Do-nothing special legislative session called a 'sham' - Kurt Erickson
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/08/13/news/doc48a25dc8c700e573632607.txt
-- House OKs bill giving disabled vets full break on property taxes - Mike Riopell
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/08/13/news/doc48a3b46896519427211395.txt
-- State Democrats quarreling, even at fair - Kurt Erickson
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/08/13/news/doc48a3b2a34846c231952479.txt
ABC7
-- Madigan coming around to infrastructure plan - Andy Shaw
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6325782 (Includes video clip)
NBC5
-- Senator Terry Link's Campaign Workers Indicted For Fake Signatures Link Says he Did Nothing Wrong
http://www.nbc5.com/politics/17183358/detail.html?dl=mainclick
CBS2
-- Candidates For Governor In 2010 Already Lining Up - Mike Flannery
http://cbs2chicago.com/politics/2010.governor.candidates.2.794711.html (Includes video clip)
-- Illinois House Approves Blagojevich Vetoes
http://cbs2chicago.com/politics/blagojevich.vetoes.approved.2.794684.html
NAPERVILLE SUN
-- Former Milton Township Assessor Jim Gumm gets $50,000 in forgery case against political consultant Rod McCulloch - Jennifer Gotz
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/1107020,6_1_NA14_GUMM_S1.article
ILLINOIS REVIEW
-- Sauerberg falls behind Durbin by 34 points - Fran Eaton
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/08/sauerberg-falls.html
CHAMPION NEWS
-- Barack Obama is the Tax Man - John Biver
http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=1129
-- VERY SAD: Pro-gay GOP group embarrasses McCain supporters in Illinois - Doug Ibendahl
http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=1134
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Sources tell Champion News that at least two of McCain's Illinois point persons, Jim Durkin and Pat Brady knew about this event and apparently had no problem. Durkin reportedly attended the first stop on the crawl. Meanwhile, I can't even get either Durkin or Brady to give me a straight answer as to whether or not they favor returning to the direct election of our State Republican Party's Central Committee. Look, I would agree that McCain needs every vote he can get, and we as Republicans can't reject the votes of gay folks or anyone else. But is it credible that anyone is going to have a serious discussion about McCain's qualifications over the throbbing blare of dance music in some gay pick-up bar? (That's exactly what most of the bars on the itinerary above are, and anyone who lives in Chicago knows it.) This just looks to the casual observer like an excuse to go drinking in some gay hot spots. Don't forget, this Boystown neighborhood is the same place where George W. Bush was regularly hung in effigy during the Gay Pride Parade as a demonstration against our president's support of a pro-traditional-marriage constitutional amendment. The Log Cabin Republicans not only refused to endorse Bush for re-election in 2004 over the issue, the national organization ran ads against him. The point is we know where the gay activist community stands with respect to the Republican Party and its Platform. Should the GOP be moving their way, in their bars? Wouldn't it be more honorable to at a minimum ask for a condemnation of the nasty attacks on President Bush that have come from some in the gay community? Any event or group that tries to attach itself to McCain's name should be one that John McCain himself would be proud to associate with. Given McCain's heroic service and sacrifice in Vietnam, we should consider that a very high standard. Yes, even in Illinois.)
EXTREME WISDOM
-- School Funding: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - Bruno Behrend
http://www.extremewisdom.com/?p=1319
TEAM AMERICA 10TH
-- Lake County Grand Jury Indicts State Senator Terry Link’s Petition Circulators on Multiple Counts of Forgery and Perjury
http://teamamerica10th.blogspot.com/2008/08/lake-county-grand-jury-indicts-state.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Now that Knight and Davison have been indicted, Link has some interesting choices to make. Clearly, Link resisted acknowledging the issue and took no action himself that might have resulted in him having to admit that his petitions were irreparably flawed, and have to remove himself from the primary election that was held in February 2008. That would have been the honorable thing to do, and notably, was exactly what candidate James Gumm, the incumbent Milton Township assessor, did when he discovered that political operative Rodney McCulloch paid circulators to circulate petitions, which signatures the circulators then forged.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
-- The Democrats' Missing History - Jeffery Lord
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121856786326834083.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As Democrats prepare to nominate Sen. Barack Obama to be the first black president, the Democratic National Committee and its chairman, Howard Dean, have whitewashed the party's horrific and lengthy record of racism. The omission is in the section of the DNC Web site that describes the party's history. The missing history raises the obvious question of whether the Democrats, unable or simply unwilling to put their party on record as taking direct responsibility for one of the worst racial crimes of the ages, will be able to run a campaign free of the racial animosities it has regularly brought both to American presidential campaigns and American political and social life in general.What else to make of the official party history as presented by the DNC on its Web site? It is a history so sanitized of historical reality it makes Stalin look like David McCullough.)
FOX NEWS CHANNEL
-- BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS: Kristol: Colin Powell to Endorse Barack Obama
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/13/kristol-colin-powell-to-endorse-barack-obama/
CNS NEWS
-- Americans View Media Bias As Big Problem, Poll Shows - Keriann Hopkins
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=34020
HUMAN EVENTS
-- Hot Congressional Races in Illinois
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28029
AMERICAN THINKER
-- Obama's Alinsky Hoodwink is Coming Home to Roost - Kyle-Anne Shiver
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_alinsky_hoodwink_is_com.html
BLOOMBERG
-- Obama Woos Abortion Foes With Platform Embracing Motherhood - Kristin Jensen
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a2nC1Wysvtg4&refer=us
DAILY KOS
-- New 'Atlantic': Obama must treat McCain like Alan Keyes! - Greg Mitch
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/13/111240/598
MSNBC
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: Because the Democrat Party platform is so outrageously anti-religious, no one who really is religious would support Democrat Obama
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/13/1263140.aspx
TIME MAGAZINE
-- Obama, Wright: How Much Damage? - Massimo Calabresi
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1737316,00.html?imw=Y
NEWSWEEK
-- The Book(s) on Barack - Andrew Romano
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/08/13/barack-gets-booked.aspx
JOE BIRKETT
-- Rod Blagojevich needs to answer 10 questions on gas prices
http://www.joebirkett.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/13/rod-blagojevich-needs-to-answer-10-questions-on-gas-prices/
