As noted in IlliniPundit and Capitol Fax Blog, the McCain campaign web site is posting talking points and is asking supporters to get the word out. Many are taking this as instructions to copy and paste the talking points into blogs, either as posts or comments.
This is nothing new, albeit a but more blunt than [...]

(Press release)
Darin LaHood Continues Sweep of Police Endorsements:
Correctional Officers Vote Unanimous Support
Peoria IL – Citing his experience as an “aggressive prosecutor and keen understanding of Peoria County,” the Peoria County Correctional Officer’s FOP Union voted unanimously to endorse Darin LaHood for Peoria County State’s Attorney.
LaHood has pitched a shutout among law enforcement union endorsements—gaining all [...]

My last attempt at using BlogTalkRadio didn’t work out all that well. I’m told that the glitches are now over, and that neither I nor would be callers will have trouble getting connected.
Let’s hope so, because I’ve scheduled my second show for 6 p.m. (Central) Sunday, March 9.
The subject will be the decision Illinois voters [...]

UPDATE: After 10 minutes of a message telling me that”no web audio servers are available,”  I gave up. I wish BlogTalkRadio the best. I didn’t even know if I was on the air or not. Apparently, they will need it.

NOTE: I’m going on the air in 40 minutes.
I’ve been a little under the weather, so [...]

Burl notes that the mock elections at Peoria Heights High School were pretty biased. It seems that school administrators limited ballot choices to the top two candidates in the two big parties.  Ron Paul was out, as was Mike Huckabee. You know the guy who won the Iowa caucus and who didn’t drop out after [...]

Colleen Callahan’s is foray into politics is an opportunity to discuss how the line between the watchers and those being watched is, well, not really a line at all. The media and the government are supposed to be adversarial. The reality is that they enjoy a symbiotic relationship: The press gives the politicians the exposure [...]

Via a press release:
In their meeting Thursday, the Illinois Board of Elections dismissed objections to all four Green Party candidates for President: Jared Ball of Washington D.C., Howie Hawkins of New York, Kent Mesplay of California and Cynthia McKinney of California.
The decision by the board sets the stage for the state’s first ever contested Green [...]

“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

My two cents: I really don’t gtive a fig who wins a U.S. Senate race in Tennessee, and it seems to me both sides are dishing dirt down there. Still, the stuff about paying taxes after you die and having too many guns is within bounds. But the Playboy stuff … Geeze. Why does it [...]

I guess not, cause the who’s prosecuting Tom Delay says the Bible told him to do it:
“The root of the evil of the corporate and large-monied interest domination of politics is money. This is in the Bible. This isn’t rocket science. The root of all evil truly is money, especially in politics. People talk about [...]

Via a press release:
Former U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL), widely regarded during his tenure for his commitment to root out public corruption and his selection of similarly disposed U.S. Attorneys, will be in Chicago this morning to endorse State Senator Steve Rauschenberger (R-Elgin) for Governor.
Fitzgerald is not waiting for the widely anticipated “Edgar decision,” saying [...]

First up, a very tasteful ad from Hillary Clinton.
Hat tip: Marathon Pundit
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Via Chicago Sun-Times:
A company founded by Gov. Blagojevich’s former campaign chief emerged Wednesday as the latest investment firm to draw the attention of federal investigators probing corruption in the state’s teacher pension system.
Hopewell Ventures, whose five principals include former top Blagojevich adviser and 1992 Clinton campaign manager David Wilhelm, secured a $10 million investment from [...]

It’s amazing, really, that the Associated Press can write about a field of GOP gubernatorial candidates that’s so crowded, some of them might drop out after Labor Day and still not mention the candidate considered the most likely to do that very thing: U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood.
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I have to agree with Polly on today’s Word on the Street column. Gulley won re-election more because his opposition in the primary was divided among five opponents, and his foe in the general election, Greg Banks, did a poor job of campaigning and didn’t reach out to those those supporting Frank Lewis and June [...]