Sunday, November 20, 2005

Reader Writes on Reformer's Rejection

The (Chicago) Reader is best known for it's columns by Dan Savage, but this week they offer another fine political piece, by Ben Joravsky, on the fallout over Marty Cohen's annihilation in the Illinois Senate. You can read about it on my long-awaited blog.

This Reader passage is likely to get some folks' attention:

Madeline Talbott, executive director of the community group Illinois ACORN, say her organization is spreading word of the Cohen vote in voter registration drives in Hendon’s district.
Illinois ACORN is closely aligned with SEIU, which has roughly 100,000 members in Cook County - 4 out of 5 are African American. Joravsky also points out that Senate President Emil Jones's district has some of the highest heat disconnect rates. Yikes.

What lawmakers, if any, are more vulnerable because of this vote?

7 comments:

Rep. John Fritchey 9:25 AM  

YDD, I think that any Senator that voted against Marty is likely to have the vote used against them. It's a ready-made consumer issue.

BTW, it's Joravsky.

Anonymous,  10:38 AM  

the democrat "elites" who stabbed cohen in the back should be exposed for what they are: money-grubbing whores.

Anonymous,  2:29 PM  

Yet another article fails to mention the Tribune editorial page's role in the sordid affair.

Anonymous,  3:02 PM  

It's interesting to note that Roskam voted against Cohen's confirmation. I suspect this might be pointed out in his congressional district, and not (necessarily) by the dem. party.

Yellow Dog Democrat 3:16 PM  

Anon 10:38, I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but let's try to broaden our vocabulary.

And Anon 2:29, that is certainly true, although journalists seem unwilling to criticize each other. Maybe a good topic for a radio show or Chicago Tonight though.

Anonymous,  5:53 PM  

one other

this shows how poor the leaders of the state representative bodies.

by poor, i mean they have no hope of ever making hundreds of thousands through objective smarts. backstabbing may be there only hope. they are poor in resources ($) and poor in intelligence (cognitive ability).

one has to shudder when thinking about who runs the state.

Leo Klein 1:05 PM  

Not that I'm a suck-up to the governor, but I liked his letter to the Commissioners quoted in the article.

On a slightly different topic, isn't it wierd that the Reader still hasn't got it together to mount their articles in anything other than PDF? Scheese, they got to get with the times and upgrade their online capabilities.

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