During the two years after the Tea Party election of 2010, two spokesmen arose. One was McHenry County Congressman Joe Walsh. (His wife Helene was present; Walsh was on his WIND talk show.) The other was southeast Florida Congressman Allen … Continue reading
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This information arrived from the polling firm We Ask American today. The Joe Walsh data has been published before, but the rest is new. Illinois Orphans Posted: 12 Oct 2012 03:46 AM PDT Illinois is one of those areas considered … Continue reading
John Kass lamented the lack of an Illinois Scott Walker last Thursday. He certainly is asking the right question: “Where is Illinois’ Scott Walker?” I was tempted to prepare a sign to affix to me chest asking. “Are you the … Continue reading
Tea Party favorite Joe Walsh is off to Rockford for the third time I have noticed in order to participate in a third anniversary celebration of the local group. Here’s what I found in an email: “Hey Rockford Tea Party… … Continue reading
Since the deadline for reporting third quarter of the year campaign contributions and expenditures is mid-October, I decided to take a look at how Illinois Republican Congressmen/woman are doing. I looked at the 14th District GOP candidates first. It pits … Continue reading
Rep. Walsh Asks Governor Quinn to Address Challenges Facing Small Businesses and Illinoisans Sends Letter Today with Members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation WASHINGTON – Congressman Joe Walsh (IL-08) along with Members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation – Reps. Don … Continue reading
Interesting headline on a Smart Politics story with a local twist: Head of the Class: The Most Buzzworthy House Freshmen of the 112th Congress The article by Eric Ostermeier tells of an analysis of media appearances/mentions on ABC, CBS, CNN, … Continue reading
It is unclear where Congressman Joe Walsh will run for re-election. It is clear he will run somewhere. But, he has announced that he will run for re-election. Walsh now shares McHenry County with veteran Congressman Don Manzullo. His district … Continue reading
A press release from Joe Stefani, President of the Rockford Foresters Baseball Team: FORESTERS TO HOST TEA PARTY NIGHT FEATURING TWO CONGRESSMEN ROCKFORD, IL – June 17, 2011 – The Rockford Foresters Baseball Team announced today it will be hosting … Continue reading
Did you know that each congressional district but two in Illinois have 712,813 people? The other two have 712,812. So, as far as making them of equal size, Illinois Democrats did a superb job. Although the ethnic concentration requirements, which … Continue reading
The Chicago Sun-Times focused in on Congressional health insurance on page of its Sunday edition. It wasn’t a locally written article, however, by one by Bill Straub of the Scripps Howard News Service. It seems congressional Democrats, I an attempt … Continue reading
Here’s a map with a link to all 435 congressional districts. Click on a district and you will see what odds statistician Nate Silver gives each candidate for victory. Let’s look at those in Northern and Central Illinois. McHenry County … Continue reading
Yesterday’s cartoon in the Chicago Tribune leads me to wonder if 8th District Congresswoman Melissa Bean has divested her campaign of the money contributed by ethics-challenged New York City Congressman Charlie Rangel. July 23rd was the date that challenger Joe … Continue reading
Thanks to Capitol Fax Blog for the link to Public Opinion Strategies memo describing its poll findings in the 11th district race between Democrat incumbent Debbie Halvorson and challenger Adam Kinzinger. 51%-40% for the Republican with the ratio getting better … Continue reading
Melissa Bean (D-Barrington) challenger Joe Walsh has called for the 8th District incumbent to divest herself of campaign contributions from ethics-impaired New York City Congressman Charles Rangel. You can see in Joe Walsh Sticks Melissa Bean with Corruption Stick a … Continue reading
A commenter wondered why I would say that Melissa Bean could be in trouble. Here’s one reason. Illinois Review had an article last week reporting that an internal poll for Congressman Phil Hare’s Republican opponent was ahead 45-32. I had … Continue reading