Apparently, Congressional candidates Aaron Schock, Jim McConoughey and John Morris pretty much agree on everything. Well, except for that one little thing about how one of them advocated a policy that would have caused a war with China over Taiwan. But not that anyone at the GOP forum was so uncouth actually mention that.
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Politics: Not much of a debate among the Three Amigos
Politics: Millionaire public servant Schock says he’s not rich
The first financial disclosure documents in the 18th District have been released. Not one of the GOP members in the race can be described as anything less less than upper middle class.
John Morris is the poor one of the bunch. He reported assets between $101,00 and $341,000. Obviously, he’s done well for himself.
According to...
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Politics: Cartoon of the day
From today’s State Journal-Register. It’s not a cartoon you want to see when you’re running for Congress. Unless you’re Jim McConoughey or John Morris.
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Local: Peoria media leaves the best line on the cutting room floor, and the national press ignores the whole thing (UPDATE 2x: Daily Kos picks it up, link to Schock’s original words added)
This was the best line out of Jim McConoughey’s press conference about Aaron Schock’s proposal to ignore the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty and sell nuclear weapons to Taiwan:
“This is not a Ronald Reagan idea. This is a Dr. Strangelove idea.”
It’s a great line. It’s the line reporters are looking for when they attend this things....
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Politics: McConoughey wins the day v. ‘Aaron Strangelove’
This was not a good day for Aaron Schock.
The former president of the Peoria School Board played principal-for-the-day at Roosevelt Magnet School. It was pure photo-op. If Schock doesn’t know everything he needs to know about education by now, he never will.
But instead of warm-and-fuzzy stories about with pictures of smiling children, the media...
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Politics: Schock says McConoughey ‘running in the wrong primary’
From a press release:
(PEORIA) Representative Aaron Schock responded to opponent Jim McConoughey’s criticism of Schock’s recent comprehensive proposal to seek ways of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, by pointing out that there are three alternatives:
1. Seek new ways of pressuring China and Russia to heed their UN Security Council responsibilities by...
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Politics: Schock nukes-to-Taiwan position is ‘irresponsible,’ opponent says (UPDATED to include text of comments)
Jim McConoughey must have said “naive” and ‘inexperienced” a dozen times during his brief news conference today. Which is pretty must his biggest weapon against Aaron Schock, who was courteous enough to give McConoughey and other opponents John Morris an opening by suggesting that the United States arm Taiwan with nuclear weapons and arm...
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Local: Blogger Bash recap (UPDATED 5x)
The bash was a huge success and a fun time was had by all.
Rich Miller of Capitol Fax never showed (too busy rounding up news and gossip out of Springfield, no doubt). None of the students from Jonathan Ahl’s class showed up. There quite a few first-time bashers, from including the folks responsible for...
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Politics: McConoughey released rural plan
This is the press release I received from the Jim McConoughey campaign:
McConoughey Releases Rural Initiative Plan on ‘Good Harvest Tour’
Peoria, IL – As the only 18th District Congressional candidate with a farming background, Jim McConoughey intends to be a strong advocate for rural issues when elected to Congress. Starting outside the State Fairgrounds...
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Politics: McConoughey to reveal ‘rural initiatives’
A “news advisory” from the Jim McConoughey for Congress campaign:
Jim McConoughey, a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 18th Congressional District, will be holding a series of News Conferences on Wednesday (October 24, 2007). McConoughey will be discussing his Rural Initiatives on which he will focus if he is elected to fill...
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Today’s news: Learning something new
Today’s links are via the Journal Star:
Clare Jellick’s article on the Manual restructuring is up. It includes the list of “recommendations” that the various subcommittees working on the plan asked the board to approve. The meat of the story is that they want the new Manual to operate under a longer school day, a...
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Politics: Schock raking in the endorsements … except the only one that matters
Fooled me. I thought it was going to be a run-of-the-mill official campaign kickoff.
Turned out Aaron Schock wanted to show off his new acquisitions: Endorsement from some relatively minor Tazewell and Woodford county politicians, including one Democrat. Schock certainly seems to believe racking up a string of endorsements helps his campaign. But why...
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Politics: No LaHood snub of Aaron Schock
Intrepid public radio newsie Johnathan Ahl reported in his blog today that the only reason Ray LaHood donated cash to would-be Congressional replacements John Morris and Jim McConoughey and NOT to Aaron Schock is because Schock hasn’t formally announced. So my speculation there’s some sort of anti-endorsement going on is full of it, apparently.
LaHood...
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Opinion: Campaign disclosures show Schock is vulnerable
The Journal Star’s lede on the 18th District financial statements is how they raised a combined $600,000. Is that really the most important thing the public needs to know, what the combined total is? It’s like reporting on March 2, 1962, that Philadelphia Warriors players Paul Arizin and Wilt Chamberlain once combined to score...
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Politics: Morris collects $218,000 … without any help from PACs
I went through John Morris’s campaign disclosure statements and noticed something odd. The contributions from individuals came to $218,209. That’s about about 60 percent of what State Rep. Aaron Schock collected during the same reporting period. Here’s the difference: Morris received no contributions (with one exception, noted later) from political action committees. Take those...
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Politics: McConoughey reports $5,300 contributions in 3rd Quarter
According to documents electronically filed with the Federal Election Commission, 18th District Congressional candidate Jim McConoughey raised just $5,300 in donations during the quarter ending on Sept. 30. The campaign also reported McConoughey made a personal $50,000 loan to his own campaign.
The donations include $2,000 from the Friends of Ray LaHood, $1,000 from Michael...
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Politics: Morris winning the race … on the Web
All four candidates for the 18th District seat in Congress have Websites. But only two have the sort of high-quality sites that are needed to reach and impress Internet-savvy voters.
I spent a few minutes looking at the sites, and I have to say that John Morris and Jim McConoughey have the best sites. Both...
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Politics: 18th District race wide open, McConoughey survey says
I received the following email from the Jim McConoughey campaign:
Overview: The initial polling numbers for the 18th Congressional District, show the race to be wide open. As the race stands today, among those voters who have a definite opinion of whom they would support, Aaron Shock garners 23%, Jim McConoughey garners 6.6%...
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How Railroads Promote Ind’l Development – Past and Present March 20, 2010David P. Jordan
I think the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway’s 172-page Industrial Development Brochure is incredible for its detail, and it shouldn’t leave prospective buyers of listed properties and buildings with too many questions. But if they are, they can always contact the railroad.
Closer to home, RailAmerica’s Toledo Peoria & Western Railway lists these properties. I’m curious, though, why two of them, here and here, which are nowhere near TP&W track, are listed (furthermore, they could find out that “Middle Road” is not spelled “Middel.”).
Genesee & Wyoming, Inc., owner of two local shortlines – Illinois & Midland Railroad and Tazewell & Peoria Railroad – provide few details on their website, but it does say this:
I&M’s extra-wide 200-foot right-of-way, and adjacent industrial sites on both I&M and T&P, offer excellent location opportunities for manufacturing, distribution and transload facilities.
Before the Internet Age, railroads published and circulated booklets detailing industrial development sites in various communities they served. One example was the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad’s 1964 booklet. One page of the Peoria section, which appeared in the railroad’s 1963 Annual Report, can be viewed by clicking the thumbnail below.
The Rock Island’s promotion of both the Galena Road Industrial Park and Pioneer Industrial Park caught the attention of the Peoria Journal Star, which mentioned it in a June 16, 1964 editorial.
Past and present, American railroads know that to remain viable long term they must continuously promote their services to prospective industrial and logsitics firms. And only the type of media has really changed.
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I write this with all love and respect to the local guys because they ROCK, but Comcast is Satan March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
I’m the kinda guy who is always going to wait until the very last minute to pay his cable bill. Usually, I find out it’s due when I can’t get on the Internet
So I’m in the Comcast office on Dries Lane ever other month.
Those guys rock. Professional, friendly and quick. Kudos.
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Day by Day: Skin status update 3/20/2010 March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
Today’s strip: Chris Muir is hearing my pleas. Sam is again in the low-cut, skin-tight little black dress. Chris treats up to a front view and a maddeningly curvaceous profile.
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Day By Day: Skin status update 3/19/2010 March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
Today’s strip: Now this is more like it. Sam is in a skin-tight, low-cut little black dress. There’s a front view and a side view. You go, Chris!
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It’s official: The Captain America movie is going to suck March 20, 2010justiceblogofamerica
Via Slashfilm:
Now there’s a slight update: according to IESB, the shortlist is now only three names: Chris Evans (Sunshine, The Fantastic Four); Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe, Stop-Loss) and Sebastian Stan (Gossip Girl). I’ve stumped for Evans before, but am a bit surprised that he’s still on the list, because of that Fantastic Four association. But that’s no big deal in the long run, as the Marvel Studios film universe has nothing to do with the Fox version of Marvel’s characters. (Confusing!) Evans is easily the best choice here.
Feh. We need a traditional square-jawed hero for this role, not some pretty boy. Evans is an X-games sorta guy. Cap is a baseball/football/track letterman kinda guy. And the FF movies sucked and that kinda stink don’t wash off.
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Let’s not kid ourselves, we are ALL thinking the same thing about that retired white cop who pulled a gun during a Pekin traffic stop and somehow didn’t get his sorry ass shot March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
But I am far, far to politically correct to suggest that a black guy who did this wouldn’t be sitting in the Tazewell County Jail right now. Just sayin’.
Here are some possibly related postsDecember 23, 2009 — Five Peoria police layoffs averted (0)November 29, 2009 — Pekin is on the right track (2)October 22, 2009 [...]Original post by Billy Dennis
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Iron Man 2 Trailer (OFFICIAL) | Home Video Marketing March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
if you guys think this is amazing, wait till the Avengers movie comes out. dakkota92 Says: March 19th, 2010 at 4:03 pm. he wanted more money they said no soo he quit. SilentWorld13 Says: March 19th, 2010 at 4:08 pm …
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Mail It To Team-Up: Captain America Cartoon and My theory about … March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
Of course this would mean that he could be a villain in Iron Man 3 or even the Avengers movie. Now what if each major villain of the Marvel heroes banded together? Mandarin for Iron Man, Red Skull for Captain America, Loki for Thor, …
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Captain America News Round Up « Fangirl's Handbag March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
As for Chris Evans, he was the best part of the Fantastic Four, so why not keep him for a spot in the Avengers movie instead? Sebastian Stan / Wilson Bethel Sebastian Stan and Wilson Bethel are unknowns to me. I don't watch Gossip Girl …
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Star Trek vs X-Men Trailer – MoviesOnline March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
Leave it to film fans to do something cool. Below you can checkout a fan trailer for X-Men vs Star Trek. Back in the day MARVEL did a cross over comic…
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- City mulls over cuts to basic services, giving $37M to hotel developer March 20, 2010According to this Journal Star article, the City of Peoria is looking for ways to cut basic services like sidewalk and sewer improvements due to a nearly “flat projection” in sales tax growth. Meanwhile, according to this other Journal Star article, developer Gary Matthews is still pitching his hotel plan which relies on $37 [...] […]
- Should principals be empowered leaders or branch managers? March 18, 2010The extent to which mechanistic thinking is corrupting our culture might be illustrated in relation to any number of fields of activity. For instance, our educational system suffers disastrously from the dominion of the administrative mind, which is, by the very nature of modern administration, generally mechanistic in its thinking (and therefore unfitted to […]
- Another D150 administrator put on paid leave March 16, 2010District 150 Director of Technology and Library Media Services Mary Ward has been put on paid administrative leave as the district performs an internal investigation. If past is prelude, taxpayers may be paying her to do nothing for a long time. The last administrator to be put on paid administrative leave, Mary Davis, [...] […]
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- FireFly - What Community Leaders Said March 15, 2010"Calling FireFly 'the poster child' of Peoria NEXT", National City regional president Doug Stewart said that technology was not in short supply in Peoria. "Ideas are not our problem. The issue is management, first, and capital second. If we are going to hit a home run, FireFly is the closest thing we've got."Doug was probab […]
- FireFly Closer to Burning Bright March 15, 2010So wrote Molly Parker, reporter for the JS in May of 2007. The resolution by the County to guarantee, along with the city, a six million dollar loan to FireFly by National City Bank, State Representative Dave Leitch, Vice-President, who personally urged the County Board to approve this loan. Quoting Ms. Parker,"The resolution passed both committees by v […]
- FireFly & G&D Integrated March 14, 2010On 5/28/07, Jennifer Davis and Molly Parker wrote "Finding a FireFly Fix Over Breakfast" in their 'Word on the Street' Column in the JS. Quoting the column, " braving buckets of snow, former Mayor Dick Carver, current Mayor Jim Ardis, state Representative Dave Leitch and a Peoria businessman showed up for breakfast at Le Peep. Over t […]
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- Reader comments closed for the weekend March 19, 2010
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- Cohen claims his religion was a factor March 19, 2010
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