President Bush came to Chicago to raise money for the GOP. Considering that Illinois is a blue state, I don’t know how much good it’s going to do any Republican candidate who gets too close to the guy. And you would have thought the advisers who tell him what to say would have warned him [...]

The only thing that surprised me about this article on the GOP dumping DeLay as majority leader was how the news agency described Peoria’s very own “Congressman Ray.”
“I would not support him for majority leader,” Rep. Ray LaHood told Reuters in a telephone interview from his central Illinois district.
LaHood, a conservative Republican with close ties [...]

U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood spoke to Dave Dahl about his son Darin’s bid to become the new U.S. attorney for Central Illinois“
Says Congressman/Dad La Hood: “I’m not really going to be involved in that process, for obvious reasons, but I think his background and his eight years of experience in prosecuting cases obviously means he’s [...]