Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 days 21 hours ago.
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*** UPDATE 6 @ 1:56 pm *** The Cook County Republican Party raised $28,370 during the first half of the year. During the first six mo...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 days 21 hours ago.
[Updated and bumped to the top because we’re going to use this thread for newly filed campaign disclosure reports.]
*** UPDATE 8 @ 2:15 pm *** The Democratic nominee for Cook County State’s Attorney, Anita Alvarez has raised $463,275 since th...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 days 21 hours ago.
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*** UPDATE 9 @ 3:08 pm *** Senate GOP Leader Frank Watson’s personal committee report is in. Watson raised $601,718 during t...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 days 21 hours ago.
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*** UPDATE 13 @ 3:59 pm *** The Democratic Party of Illinois, which Speaker Madigan uses to fund his House campaigns, reported raisi...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 days 21 hours ago.
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*** UPDATE 15 @ 4:14 pm *** Nothing has been filed yet, but I’m told that House GOP Leader Tom Cross’ D-2 will show he ...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 days 21 hours ago.
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*** UPDATE 20 @ 5:00 pm *** The report is in for Citizens for Emil Jones. The committee raised $290,255, which compares to the $2...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 days 21 hours ago.
[Updated and bumped to the top because we’re going to use this thread for newly filed campaign disclosure reports.]
*** UPDATE 21 @ 5:09 pm *** The governor’s campaign just said their report will be released at about 7 tonight. According to ...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 days 21 hours ago.
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*** UPDATE 24 @ 8:25 pm *** State Sen. Christine Radogno has been talking up a possible GOP gubernatorial bid. Her numbers are in. ...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 days 21 hours ago.
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*** UPDATE 25 @ 9:22 pm *** The governor’s report is in and they told the truth about not having any new Winston & Straw...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 2 days 22 hours ago.
I was trying to find a picture of the new Wal-Mart Supercenter in Springfield, Illinois when I came across this bone-chilling representation of the sixteenth president, at least I think that is supposed to be him.
Dubbing the doll “Goth Lincoln,&#...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 2 days 22 hours ago.
At the start of this decade, a man undeserving of such an honor took over one of America’s most influential posts. Eight years - and reams of head-smack blabbering and inanity later - the nation can collectively exhale. After 2008, we will no longer...
Posted by 411 Mommy 2 days 22 hours ago.
So, I have recently discovered Eebee... well, my son has! I bought a bunch of gift cards at a silent auction this past week while I was out of town at a professional conference in Los Angeles. One of the gift cards was for Barnes and Nob...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 days 23 hours ago.
* Undermining a thin-skinned mayor on a problem that just about everybody agrees needs to be fixed and while the aforementioned mayor is trying to lure the Olympics to town is certain to get the local media in a tizzy. Daley did his best to keep the dis...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 days 23 hours ago.
OK, so today is campaign finance report deadline day and the State Board of Elections’ website is proving to be a huge pain.
Yes, they fixed some of the more egregious problems that we complained about a few months ago. But check out the steps it...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 3 days 3 minutes ago.
* Somebody finally notices, but he buries it way down so nobody else will likely notice…
With all of the budget folderol from last week, its worth remembering that back in May, the House passed another budget that didnt increase spending nearly a...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 3 days 3 minutes ago.
Oh never mind. As I said, all along, the oil run up was 3 parts speculation and 1 part nerves. As the August Senate hearings approach on speculation the speculators, like the cock roaches that they are, will scurry and the nerves will harden. Guess what ...
Posted by neuropathology blog 3 days 35 minutes ago.
The esteemed Dr. Doug Shevlin fowarded me this New York Times article about another guy with an M.D. after his name who blogs. Dr. Arnold Kim, pictured above, writes MacRumors.com, which monitors new developments coming out of the notoriously secretive Ap...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 3 days 39 minutes ago.
[Updated and bumped up for obvious reasons.]* The Tribune has a story in Sunday’s edition about its thorough investigation of apparently bogus after-school grants. The $20,000 grants are noncompetitive and are essentially awarded by Senate Democrats...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 3 days 58 minutes ago.
* Before we take a look at my syndicated newspaper column, I should point out that the anti con-con group “Alliance to Protect the Illinois Constitution” has filed its campaign finance report this morning. So far, they’ve reported $250...
Posted by Where Dave Is 3 days 5 hours ago.
Dave is
Back to normal life.Totally unrelated to today but a cute ass little kid.
No ham, no cheese, no beautiful beaches or boa constrictor. No, Dave is back to mud and rain and endless egg sandwiches and that damn court official. And of course being b...
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