New Energy For Illinois And America
If you're looking for Republicans and Democrats who will -
-work to create jobs in the new energy economy that will help solve global warming,
-protect open spaces and restore, rather than slash, funding for our state parks and environmental programs,
-make Illinois a Clean Car state to save us money at the pump
Then check out Sierra Club's endorsements before you vote Tuesday. It's a bipartisan ticket of champions for change, of candidates who want to move beyond the bickering to the solutions we know will work for our environment, our economy, and our future.
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ILLINOIS COMMITTEE FOR HONEST GOVERNMENT
2008 GENERAL ELECTION ENDORSEMENTS
(* - Incumbent in non-judicial race.)
(D – Democratic, R – Republican, G – Green)
PRESIDENT/VICE PRESIDENT: Barack H. Obama & Joseph Biden (D).
US SENATOR: *Richard J. Durbin (D).
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS:
*Bobby L. Rush (D – 1st).
Anthony W. Williams (R – 2nd).
*Daniel William Lipinski (D – 3rd).
Omar N. Lopez (G – 4th).
*Rahm Emanuel (D – 5th).
Jill Morgenthaler (D – 6th).
*Danny K. Davis (D – 7th).
*Mellissa Bean (D – 8th).
Michael Benjamin Younan (R – 9th).
Daniel J. Seals (D - 10th).
Deborah “Debbie” Halvorson (D – 11th).
Timmy Jay Richardson, Jr. (R – 12th).
Scott Harper (D – 13th).
*Bill Foster (D – 14th).
*Timothy V. Johnson (R – 15th).
*Donald A. Manzullo (R – 16th).
*Phil Hare (D – 17th).
Colleen Callahan (D – 18th).
Daniel Davis (D – 19th).
STATE SENATOR:
*William “Willie” Delgado (D – 2nd).
Jason Allen Braswell (R – 5th).
*John J. Cullerton (D – 6th).
*Heather Steans (D – 7th).
*Ira I. Silverstein (D – 8th).
*Jeffrey M. Schoenberg (D – 9th).
*Louis S. "Lou" Viverito (D – 11th).
Ray Wardingley (R – 14th).
*James T. Meeks (D – 15th).
*Donne E. Trotter (D – 17th).
*Edward J. Maloney (D – 18th).
*Dan Cronin (R – 21st).
*Carole Pankau (R -23rd).
*Kirk W. Dillard (R- 24th).
Bill Gentes (D – 26th).
Peter Gutzmer (D – 27th).
*Susan Garrett (D – 29th).
*Terry Link (D – 30th).
*Pamela J. Althoff (R – 32nd).
*Daniel M. Kotowski (D – 33rd).
*Mike Jacobs (D – 36th).
Steve Stout (D -38th).
*Don Harmon (D – 39th).
*Christine Radogno (R – 41st).
*Linda Holmes (D – 42nd).
*John M. Sullivan (D – 47th).
*Larry K. Bomke (R – 50th).
*Frank Watson (R – 51st).
*Dan Rutherford (R – 53rd).
*John O. Jones (R – 54th).
*William R. "Bill" Haine (D – 56th).
*James F. Clayborne, Jr. II (D – 57th).
*Gary Forby (D – 59th).
STATE REPRESENTATIVE:
*Susana Mendoza (D – 1st).
Ante “Tony” Marijan (G – 2nd).
*Luis Arroyo (D – 3rd).
*Kenneth "Ken" Dunkin (D – 5th).
*Karen A. Yarbrough (D – 7th).
*La Shawn K. Ford (D – 8th).
*Arthur L. Turner (D – 9th).
*Annazette R. Collins (D – 10th)
*John A. Fritchey (D – 11th).
*Sara Feigenholtz (D – 12th).
*Gregory Harris (D – 13th).
*Lou Lang (D – 16th).
Daniel Biss (D – 17th).
*Julie Hamos (D – 18th).
*Joseph M. Lyons (D – 19th).
Michael C. Marzullo (D – 20th).
Michael J. Zalewski (D – 21st).
*Michael J. Madigan (D – 22nd).
*Daniel J. Burke (D – 23rd).
*Elizabeth "Lisa" Hernandez (D – 24th).
William D. “Will” Burns (D – 26th).
*David E. Miller (D – 29th).
*William “Will” Davis (D – 30th).
*Mary E. Flowers (D – 31st).
Andre Thapedi (D – 32nd).
*Constance A. "Connie" Howard (D – 34th).
*Kevin Carey Joyce (D – 35th).
*James J. Brosnahan (D – 36th).
*Kevin McCarthy (D – 37th).
*Maria Antonia "Toni" Berrios (D – 39th).
Deborah L. Mell (D – 40th).
*Sandra M. Pihos (R – 42nd).
*Ruth Munson (R – 43rd).
*Fred Crespo (D – 44th).
Jim Hagerty (D – 45th).
Gary Nowak (D – 46th).
*Patricia R. “Patti” Bellock (R – 47th).
Joseph Henegan (D – 48th).
*Timothy L. Schmitz (R – 49th).
Mary Schneider (D – 50th).
Amanda D. Howland (D – 51st).
*Mark H. Beaubien, Jr. (R – 52nd).
Carol Javens (D- 53rd).
*Suzanne “Suzie” Bassi (R – 54th).
Broc Montgomery (D – 55th).
*Paul Froehlich (D – 56th).
*Elaine Nekritz (D – 57th).
*Karen May (D – 58th).
*Kathleen A. Ryg (D – 59th).
*JoAnn D. Osmond (R – 61st).
*Sandy Cole (R – 62nd).
*Jack D. Franks (D – 63rd).
*Michael W. Tryon (R – 64th).
Aurora Austriaco (D – 65th).
Mark Walker (D – 66th).
STATE REPRESENTATIVE (continued):
*Charles E. "Chuck" Jefferson (D - 67th).
Clint W. Little (D – 68th).
Greg Tuite (D – 69th ).
*Robert Pritchard (R – 70th).
*Mike Boland (D – 71st).
*Patrick Verschoore (D – 72nd).
*David R. Leitch (R – 73rd).
*Donald L. Moffitt (R -74th).
*Careen M. Gordon (D – 75th).
*Frank J. Mautino (D – 76th).
*Angelo “Skip” Saviano (R – 77th).
*Deborah L. Graham (D – 78th).
*Lisa M. Dugan (D – 79th).
Miriam Shabo (R – 80th).
Rich Kelly (D – 81st).
*Jim Durkin (R – 82nd).
*Linda Chapa-LaVia (D – 83rd).
*Tom Cross (R – 84th).
Emily Klunk-McAsey (D – 85th).
*Jack McGuire (D – 86th).
*Bill Mitchell (R – 87th).
*Dan Brady (R – 88th).
*Jim Sacia (R – 89th).
*Jerry L. Mitchell (R – 90th).
*Michael K. Smith (D – 91st).
Jehan Gordon (D – 92nd).
*Jil Tracy (R – 93rd).
*Richard P. “Rich” Myers (D – 94th).
*Mike Fortner (R – 95th).
Dianne A. McGuire (R – 96th).
*Jim Watson (R – 97th).
Gary Hannig (D – 98th).
Kent E. DeLay (D – 99th).
*Bob Flider (D – 101st).
*Ron Stephens (R – 102nd).
*Naomi D. Jakobsson (D – 103rd).
Lori A. DeYoung (D – 104th).
*Shane Cultra (R – 105th).
*Keith P. Sommer (R – 106th).
Jason A. Warfel (D – 108th).
*Roger L. Eddy (R – 109th).
*Chapin Rose (R – 110th).
*Daniel V. Beiser (D – 111th).
Dwight D. Kay (R – 112th).
*Thomas "Tom" Holbrook (D – 113th).
*Wyvetter H. Younge (D – 114th).
Cheryl Graff (D – 115th).
*Dan Reitz (D – 116th).
*John Bradley (D- -117th).
*Brandon M. Phelps (D – 118th).
COOK COUNTY OFFICES:
CIRCUIT COURT CLERK: *Dorothy A. Brown (D).
RECORDER OF DEEDS: *Eugene Moore (D).
BOARD OF REVIEW: *Joseph Berrios (D – 2nd).
*Larry R. Rogers, Jr. (3rd).
METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT: *Frank Avila (D).
DuPAGE COUNTY OFFICES:
AUDITOR: Bob Grogan (R).
RECORDER: David R. Meek (D).
COUNTY BOARD: Rita Gonzalez (D – 1st).
Barbara Dahl (D – 2nd).
Robert “Bob” Brandt (D – 3rd).
Karol Sole (D – 3rd).
Richard L. Dunn (D – 4th).
Tony Michelassi (D – 5th).
*James D. Healy (R – 5th).
*Dirk Enger (D – 6th).
KANE COUNTY OFFICES:
STATE’S ATTORNEY: *John A. Barsanti (R).
CIRCUIT CLERK: Edmond J. Nendick (D).
RECORDER: *Sandy Wegman (R).
AUDITOR: Thomas K. Sandor (D).
CORONER: *Charles H. West (R).
KANE COUNTY BOARD:
*Donnell Collins (D – 2nd).
*Bonnie Lee Kunkel (D – 4th).
Ron Ford (D – 6th).
Jesse B. Vazquez (D – 8th).
*Thomas R. Van Cleave (R – 10th).
*Mark Davoust (R – 14th).
*Michael J. Kenyon (R – 16th).
Jeanette Mihalec (D – 18th).
Cristina Castro (D – 20th).
*Jackie Tredup (R – 22nd).
*Hollie Kissane (D – 24th).
*Andrew E. “Drew” Frasz (R – 26th).
LAKE COUNTY OFFICES:
STATE’S ATTORNEY: Michael Jacobs (D).
CIRCUIT COURT CLERK: Cynthia Pruim Haran (D).
RECORDER: *Mary Ellen Vanderventer (D).
CORONER: *Richard L. Keller, MD (D).
LAKE COUNTY BOARD:
Peter Grant (D – 1st).
*Suzi Schmidt (R – 3rd).
*Bonnie Thomson Carter (R – 5th).
Melinda Bush (D – 6th).
*Robert Sabonjian (D – 8th).
*Mary Ross Cunningham (D – 9th).
*Diana O’Kelly (R – 10th).
Patrice T. Carey (D – 11th).
*Angelo D. Kyle (D – 12th).
*Audrey Nixon (D – 14th).
Denise Rotheimer (D – 17th).
Davita Siegel (D – 20th).
Michelle Feldman (D – 22nd).
SUPREME COURT JUDGE:
Anne M. Burke (D-1st - McMurrow vacancy).
APPELLATE COURT JUDGE:
Sharon Johnson Coleman (D-1st – Burke vacancy).
John O. Steele (D-1st – Campbell vacancy).
James M. Wexstten (D-5th – Hopkins vacancy).
CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE:
(Cook County Circuit - Countywide):
Dennis J. Burke (D-Disko vacancy).
Jesse G. Reyes (D-Glowacki vacancy).
Maureen Ward Kirby (D-Healy vacancy).
Marilyn F. Johnson (D-Keehan vacancy).
Thomas J. Byrne (D-Lott vacancy).
Debra B. Walker (D-Montelione vacancy).
Kristyna Colleen Ryan (D-Murphy vacancy).
Michael B. Hyman (D-Nowicki vacancy).
Joan Powell (D-Thomas vacancy).
(Cook County Subcircuits):
Donna J. Cooper (D-1st, Turkington vacancy).
Pat Rogers (D-4th, Shultz vacancy).
Jackie Marie Portman (D-5th, Bush vacancy).
Dominique C. Ross (D-5th, “A” vacancy).
Maurico Araujo (D-6th, Figueroa vacancy).
Anita Rivkin-Carothers (D-7th, Young vacancy).
Ann Collins Dole (D-8th, Sheehan vacancy).
Ursula Walowski (D-10th, Kowalski vacancy).
Diana L. Kenworthy (D-10th, Morrissey vacancy).
Eileen O’Neill Burke (D-10th, Pucinski vacancy).
Pamela Elizabeth Loza (D-12th, Devlin vacancy).
Ann Catherine Brady (D-13th, Ryan vacancy).
Margarita Kulys Hoffman (R-13th, Tobin vacancy).
Anna Helen Demacopoulos (D-15th, "A" vacancy).
(Downstate Circuits):
Steve Stone (D-1st, Stewart vacancy).
Joe Jackson (D-1st – Massac Co., Foster vacancy).
Joseph M. Leberman (R-1st –Pope Co., Lowery vac.).
Walden E. Morris (D-1st – Saline Co., Henshaw vac.).
L. James Hanson (D-2nd, Wexstten vacancy).
Tom Tedeschi (D-2nd – Franklin Co., Lewis vacancy).
Dennis R. Ruth (D-3rd, Ferguson vacancy).
Richard L. Tognarelli (D-3rd, Madison Co., Byron vac.).
Steven L. Garst (R-5th – Edgar Co., Andrews vacancy).
Diane M. Lagoski (D-8th – Brown Co., Slocum vacancy).
Paul l. Mangieri (D-9th, Hultgren vacancy).
Robert L. Freitag (R-11th, Bernardi vacancy).
Jennifer H. Bauknecht (R-11th – Livingston County, Frobish vacancy).
Thomas M. Harris, Jr. (R-11th – Logan Co., Coogan vacancy).
Jeff Allen (D-12th – 2nd Subcircuit, “A” vacancy).
Sarah Jones (D-12th – 3rd Subcircuit, “A” vacancy).
Paula A. Gomora (D-12th – 4th Subcircuit, “A” vacancy).
Joseph P. Hettel (D-13th, LaSalle Co., Carter vacancy).
Daniel A. Fish (R-15th, Payne vacancy).
Ron Jacobson (R-15th – Lee County, Fritts vacancy).
Jim Murphy (D-16th – 1st Subcircuit, “A” vacancy).
Patricia Piper Golden (R-16th – 2nd Sub., “A” vac.).
Ronald “Ron” J. White (R-17th, Gill vacancy).
Marilyn Hite Ross (D-17th, Kapala vacancy).
Gwyn Gulley (D-17th – 1st Subcircuit, “A” vacancy).
Paul A. Logli (R-17th – 2nd Subcircuit, “A” vacancy).
Blanche Hill Fawell (R-18th, Duncan, Jr. vacancy).
John J. Kinsella (R-18th, Moy vacancy).
Jay W. Ukena (D-19th – 1st Subcircuit, “A” vacancy).
David S. Weinstein (D-19th – 2nd Subcircuit, “A” vac.).
Adrienne Wakat Albrecht (D-21st – Kankakee County, Householter vacancy).
RETENTION BALLOT:
The Illinois Committee for Honest Government, after evaluating the record of the five Judges of the Appellate Court seeking retention for another 10-year term, endorses each of them and recommends a “YES” vote for Appellate Court Judges Michael J. Gallagher (1st District), Margaret Stanton McBride (1st), Robert D. McLaren (2nd), Sue E. Myerscough (4th) and Richard P. Goldenhersh (5th). (Please remember that since these judges run on their own records, and not against partisan opposition, each judge must receive at least 60% “YES” votes in order to be retained.)
We also endorse the retention candidacies of the 78 Circuit Court Judges seeking another six-year term from Circuits outside of Cook County across the state. They have acquitted themselves well and each merits a “YES” vote from the electorate on November 4.
Of the 68 remaining judges on the retention ballot, seeking another six-year term as a Cook County Circuit Court Judge, the ICHG supports the retention of 63 of them. However, five Circuit Court Judges have been found wanting by us, and we recommend a “NO” vote for each of them:
Evelyn Clay – NO!
Vanessa Hopkins – NO!
Edward Pietrucha – NO!
Casandra Lewis – NO!
Sheila McGinnis – NO!
CON-CON QUESTION
Under the provisions of the Illinois Constitution, the question of whether or not to hold a State Constitutional Convention is required to appear on the ballot every 20 years. This year Illinois voters will have that opportunity, and the ICHG strongly endorses a “YES” vote on the question of calling for a convention.
It is painfully evident that there will be no real reform of Illinois government in our lifetime without at least a number of overhauls in the state constitution. Those in power will not make those changes, so we must take this action on November 4 and vote “YES” for a State Constitutional Convention.
I like the ICHG TV show. I also like that the ICHG is pushing an impeachment of Rod Blagojevich.
What did the Sierra Club do in the MWRD Sanitary races? Jack Darin had a lot of egg on his face by losing all his picks and going against Deborah Shore. The Sierra Club also went against engineering expertise and Latino empowerment in opposing Commissioner Frank Avila the only Civil Engineer on the Board and a person who has done more for the environment practically and by the bully pulpit than any Commissioner.
Isn't Jack Darin the idiot who is pro-Blagojevich. Blagojevich is going to jail. Jack Darin should also include corruption and realism.
Omar Lopez is a good choice for Congress.
Luis Gutierrez is a piece of garbage.
I don't trust Obama. I am voting for McCain. Lesser of two evils. Bush is bad but McCain is good man.
Obama is too machivellean too politican.
Omar Lopez Green.
Get this Obama Speechwriter Wendy Button* had enough of the Empty Suit of Hope and is now backing John McCain - The Real Deal! All in Wendy's word!
Since I started writing speeches more than ten years ago, I have always believed in the Democratic Party. Not anymore. Not after the election of 2008. This transformation has been swift and complete and since I’m a woman writing in the election of 2008, “very emotional."When we first met, Obama and I had a nice conversation about speeches and writing, and at the end of the meeting I handed him a pocket-sized bottle of Grey Poupon mustard so he wouldn’t have to ask staff if it was okay to put it on his hamburger. At the bottom of the bottle was the logo for “The South Beach Diet” and he snapped, “Oh so you read People magazine.” He seemed to think that I was commenting on his bathing suit picture.
I helped with his announcement speech and others. I worked in the Senate when he was in D.C. One day after a hearing on Darfur, we were walking back to the office. I was still hobbling from a very bad ankle injury and in a very kind and gentle way he offered his arm when we approached the stairs. But later in debate preps and phone conversations and meetings, I realized that I had made a mistake. I didn’t belong. No matter how hard I tried, my heart wasn’t in it anymore.
...The final straw came the other week when Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (a.k.a Joe the Plumber) asked a question about higher taxes for small businesses. Instead of celebrating his aspirations, they were mocked. He wasn’t “a real plumber,” and “They’re fighting for Joe the Hedge-Fund manager,” and the patronizing, “I’ve got nothing but love for Joe the Plumber.”
Having worked in politics, I know that absolutely none of this is on the level. This back and forth is posturing, a charade, and a political game. These lines are what I refer to as “hooker lines”—a sure thing to get applause and the press to scribble as if they’re reporting meaningful news.
As the nation slouches toward disaster, the level of political discourse is unworthy of this moment in history. We have Republicans raising Ayers and Democrats fostering ageism with “erratic” and jokes about Depends. Sexism. Racism. Ageism and maybe some Socialism have all made their ugly cameos in election 2008. It’s not inspiring. Perhaps this is why I found the initial mocking of Joe so offensive and I realized an old line applied: “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party left me.”
The party I believed in wouldn’t look down on working people under any circumstance. And Joe the Plumber is right. This is the absolutely worst time to raise taxes on anyone: the rich, the middle class, the poor, small businesses and corporations.
...Not only has this party belittled working people in this campaign from Joe the Plumber to the bitter comments, it has also been part of tearing down two female candidates. At first, certain Democrats and the press called Senator Clinton “dishonest.” They went after her cleavage. They said her experience as First Lady consisted of having tea parties. There was no outrage over “Bros before Hoes” or “Iron My Shirt.” Did Senator Clinton make mistakes? Of course. She’s human.
But here we are about a week out and it’s déjà vu all over again. Really, front-page news is how the Republican National Committee paid for Governor Sarah Palin’s wardrobe? Where’s the op-ed about how Obama tucks in his shirt when he plays basketball or how Senator Biden buttons the top button on his golf shirt?
...Governor Palin and I don’t agree on a lot of things, mostly social issues. But I have grown to appreciate the Governor. I was one of those initial skeptics and would laugh at the pictures. Not anymore. When someone takes on a corrupt political machine and a sitting governor, that is not done by someone with a low I.Q. or a moral core made of tissue paper. When someone fights her way to get scholarships and work her way through college even in a jagged line, that shows determination and humility you can’t learn from reading Reinhold Niebuhr. When a mother brings her son with special needs onto the national stage with love, honesty, and pride, that gives hope to families like mine as my older brother lives with a mental disability. And when someone can sit on a stage during the Sarah Palin rap on Saturday Night Live, put her hands in the air and watch someone in a moose costume get shot—that’s a sign of both humor and humanity.
Has she made mistakes? Of course, she’s human too. But the attention paid to her mistakes has been unprecedented compared to Senator Obama’s “57 states” remarks or Senator Biden using a version of the Samuel Johnson quote, “There’s nothing like a hanging in the morning to focus a man’s thoughts.”
...I was dead wrong about the surge and thought it would be a disaster. Senator John McCain led when many of us were ready to quit. Yet we march on as if nothing has changed, wedded to an old plan, and that too is a long way from the Democratic Party.
I can no longer justify what this party has done and can’t dismiss the treatment of women and working people as just part of the new kind of politics. It’s wrong and someone has to say that. And also say that the Democratic Party’s talking points—that Senator John McCain is just four more years of the same and that he’s President Bush—are now just hooker lines that fit a very effective and perhaps wave-winning political argument…doesn’t mean they’re true. After all, he is the only one who’s worked in a bipartisan way on big challenges.
McCain is right on Nuclear energy (and the safety of aircraft carriers and submarines which he has experience with) and he has done some good stuff with solar and wind energy in Arizona.
the quality of water is good in Chicago but not the quality of air
Jack,
Apologize for your recent unqualified support for Rod.
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