Just got a note from Americans for Limited Government that they are planning a little Obamacare protest at the office of Democrat Rep. Bill Foster of the 14th District. Here is the info…
There is a protest rally against ObamaCare being held in your area, Batavia, this Saturday.
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Stop ObamaCare Rally this Saturday in Batavia at Rep. Foster’s Office”
From the Isaac Hayes for Congress campaign…
CHICAGO: After spending more than a year to pass a major overhaul of the American health insurance industry, the White House released its latest in a series of new health reform bills.
“This administration’s push to jam a bill that the majority of Americans oppose through reconciliation begs the question, who does this country belong to,” said Republican Nominee for Illinois 2nd District Isaac Hayes, “the people or politicians in Washington D.C.? The White House can try and use focus group words to deceive the American people, but putting lipstick on a pig doesn’t stop it from being a pig”.
2nd District, Isaac Hayes: New Health Bill a Bait and Switch”
From the Palatine Tea Party folks…
(Palatine, Illinois) – March 4, 2010 – We reject Melissa Bean on the issue of health-care. The citizens in the 8th district do not have a voice with Melissa Bean. She hides from her constituents and can not defend her vote on health-care.
On November 7th, 2009 she voted yes for government run health-care and for federally funded abortion services. These votes do not represent the majority of people which live in the 8th district. She is out of touch with the voters.
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Melissa Bean is Missing-in-Action on Health-care”
From Adam Andrzejewski, founder of For The Good Of Illinois…
On February 17th , 2010, for the first time in Illinois history, the Illinois Senate met in a secret budget meeting defined as a “joint caucus”. The Chicago Tribune editorial board used the term “probably illegal” to describe the meeting.
“The Illinois Senate used the statehouse as their personal private meeting hall, abusing the state constitution, the open meetings act, and the spirit of open and transparent Government. Discussing the severity of and solutions to the Illinois budget crisis, a topic that is negatively impacting every Illinois citizen and business, the Senate Sergeant at Arms held order and barred entry to the press under threat of arrest,” Andrzejewski related. “The people of Illinois pay for the lights, heat, building, and the salaries of the every state employee and legislator; yet, the people of Illinois were locked out of the discussion.”
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Attorney General Lisa Madigan Punts on Important Transparency Issue”
-By Warner Todd Huston
Fred Barnes, editor of the Weekly Standard published a piece that 8th District candidate Joe Walsh referenced this week. Barnes didn’t just talking about Walsh, though. Here is the except of what Barnes had to say about several other Illinois Republican “Rebels on the Right.”
The grass-roots revolt in the Illinois primaries was all the more telling because it was a near-total surprise. Ethan Hastert’s name, rather than an asset, “actually worked against him,” says a Republican official who supported him. The Chicago Tribune and the Sun-Times endorsed his opponent, Hultgren—another surprise.
For Hultgren, the key to winning was staying to the right of Hastert. “I believe we need real conservatism in Washington,” he declared. “I’m proud to call myself a real conservative.” He won, 55 percent to 45 percent. He faces Democrat Bill Foster, who won a special election after Hastert’s father resigned, in the general election on November 2.
The success of Dold in the House seat being vacated by Representative Mark Kirk “came out of nowhere,” Representative Aaron Schock of Illinois told me. Schock had endorsed the favorite, Coulson. Dold defeated Coulson, 39 percent to 30 percent, in a multiple candidate race.
Once again, the winner ran against Washington and excessive spending. Dold labeled Coulson “a Springfield insider” as a legislator and one who voted for “tax and spend” bills. As a social moderate, Dold nicely fits the district, which President Obama won with 61 percent of the vote in 2008. Kirk, by the way, won the Republican primary for the Senate seat once held by Obama.
What distinguished Walsh’s victory was the role of tea party activists. Without them, he would have had little chance of winning. After his victory—Walsh got 35 percent in a six-way race—he traveled to Nashville to speak at the National Tea Party Convention. “I ran as a tea party candidate in the primary, and I’m going to run as a tea party candidate in the general,” he said.
When Melissa Bean, the Democratic incumbent, learned that Walsh would be her opponent, she expressed relief, regarding him as the weakest of the Republicans in the primary. Her reaction was reminiscent of how pleased aides of President Carter were in 1980 when Ronald Reagan emerged as his Republican opponent. They were happy to have escaped the awesome juggernaut of a Howard Baker campaign.
Please do go on over to Barnes’ piece and read what he had to say on races in other parts of the country.
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Weekly Standard on Illinois Rebels”
-By Warner Todd Huston
It’s stimulus, dontcha know? It’s gonna help us all, ya see? It’ll save the economy, of course. What is it? It’s $250,000 of wasted federal money going to plant some pretty foliage on top of the DuPage County, Illinois Administrative building to erect a “green roof” there.
That’s right, Illinois, your federal tax dollars are being wasted to plant some weeds on top of the DuPage County government building, plants that are supposed to save the county money in energy bills. Well, in about 20 or 30 years, that might actually be true when factoring in the $250,000 initial price tag.
Of course, one can easily assume that the DuPage County facility will have been torn down and a new boondoggle of a government building program will be stated to replace it long before that 30 years is up, right? In other words, the energy savings that might occur some 30 years from now will not likely be realized.
But, is it stimulus? Will it help anyone? Not really. This is money going to government from government. It is not money going to the private sector so that it can do something that will earn a return on investment. This helps no one but simply adds more tax money spent on more government.
And we all know that the most likely outcome of this whole “green roof” project will be a whole cadre off union louts hired to hold a rake or a watering hose for 7 hours a day, a cadre that will then retire at 50 with $50,000 a year pensions all paid courtesy of the Illinois tax payer.
Thank you Big Government Obama.
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Gov’t Waste: $250,000 for Green Roof for DuPage County Bldg (Illinois)”
Well, it is sure to cause the Gay Lobby fits, but Peter LaBarbera, President of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, is making a bid to become the representative for the 13th District on the Illinois Republican State Central Committee.
The 13th District encompasses the Naperville area where LaBarbera is an elected precinct committeeman. He is running against Bolingbrook Mayor Roger Claar, a long-time machine pol.
LaBarbera pattens himself after “Illinois’ own Ronald Reagan,” and says that the state party needs reform.
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Anti-Gay Activist Makes Bid For GOP Central Committee”
News on Mob Banker Alexi Giannoulias’ bank mess from the Ill. GOP…
False Giannoulias Claim: “I would vehemently disagree that these are reckless or risky loans,” he said. The only reason Broadway Bank appears ready to collapse is because the bottom fell out of the real estate market, he said. (Chicago Sun-Times, “Giannoulias ‘clears air,’ denies risky loan-making, 3/3/10)
Get The Facts:
On January 26, 2010, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and the FDIC ordered Broadway Bank to “cease and desist from engaging in unsafe and unsound banking practices.” (www.idfpr.com)
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Giannoulias Misleads Chicago Sun-Times on Risky Investments, Loans to Organized Crime”
From the Walsh for Congress campaign…
Our country faces critical challenges. I’m running for Congress to address those challenges. It is incredibly disappointing to me – and to the majority of voters in the Illinois 8th Congressional District – that the news media has focused not on these issues that matter to the future of our nation, but instead has consistently sought to ridicule, demean, and condescend to anyone who tries to challenge the status quo.
The politics of personal destruction is the reason we so seldom see legitimate “change agents” running for office.
I won the Republican primary by a large margin, despite being outspent because voters identified with my message. I feel like I’m losing my country and too few we’ve sent to D.C. are doing anything about it.
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8th District: Statement by Joe Walsh Regarding Personal Financial History”
From the office os State Senator chris Lauzen, 25th District…
If constituents whom I serve fail to make their mortgage payments, the bank forecloses. If we don’t make our car payment, the car is repossessed. What happens to a State like Illinois when it doesn’t pay its bills for over six months to school districts and social service agencies?
Answer: We the People fire the decision-makers.
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State Senator Chris Lauzen: Illinois Fiscal Anarchy”
From the Walsh for Congress campaign…
Joe Walsh, Candidate for Congress in the Illinois 8th, is calling on his opponent Rep. Melissa Bean, D-Ill., to return the $28,000 she received from Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., who is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for corruption.
Rangel, who just stepped down as Chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, is under investigation for accepting Caribbean vacations from special interest groups with business before his committees.
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8th District: Walsh to Bean: Give the Rangel Money Back”
-By Warner Todd Huston
The Daily Herald is reporting on a pointed exchange between 22nd District incumbent State Senator Mike Noland and GOP challenger Steve Rauschenberger over the Democrats reliance on revenue from video gambling to fund state pork projects.
Noland was desperately trying to make the GOP out to be the bad guys because some Republicans were for the video gambling law when it was implemented last year but now some of them are balking at the spending that Democrats want to do with the money they think they are getting from gambling.
Noland whined that “now it’s largely Republicans who are trying to create a roadblock,” to use of the money. Noland is trying to claim that state Republicans are merely trying to prevent people getting jobs from the capital bill just before an election, intimating that state jobs on Quinn’s attach would bring Democrat the votes that the GOP wants to prevent.
In reply Rauschenberger made some excellent points.
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22nd District State Senate: Rauschenberger Slams Democrat’s Video Gambling Law”
From the Walsh for Congress campaign…
The Joe Walsh for Congress Campaign was recognized in this week’s Weekly Standard issue ‘Rebels on the Right.’
“In still another district near Chicago, venture capitalist Joe Walsh, 48, moved back to his hometown of Barrington to run for Congress. Republican party leaders believed Walsh would finish third in the primary to two candidates better known in the district. Walsh won.
“In these three primary elections on February 2, we saw something new. The conservative, anti-Washington, antispending backlash against President Obama and congressional Democrats had spread. It affected the outcome of Republican races. And this phenomenon has become a major factor in other Republican contests.”
–Fred Barnes, Editor Weekly Standard Magazine
– By Warner Todd Huston
Southtown Star columnist Phil Kadner tried on his high dudgeon at 11th District GOP Congressional candidate Adam Kinzinger in his March 2 editorial headlined, “A different battle for Adam Kinzinger.”
Why was Kadner so upset at the 32-year-old candidate? What caused Kadner’s tsk tsking to fly? What low-end sort of campaigning evil did candidate Kinzinger perpetrate?
Well, it seems at a recent rally Kinzinger held up a T-Shirt given to him by a member of the audience. And on that T-Shirt was, *gasp*, the word “socialism” with a circle and a line through it.
That’s right, folks, Phil Kadner is upset with Republican Adam Kinzinger because the candidate held up an anti-socialism T-Shirt at a rally. Imagine, an anti-socialism T-Shirt at a tea party styled rally… with Republicans around and about… held up by a Republican candidate! And imagine any American standing against socialism! It’s just all so unheard of.
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Southtown Star Mad that Candidate is Against Socialism?”
We’re in the final stretch of gathering signatures for the Put-Back Amendment. We’ve had events in New Lenox, Decatur and Jacksonville and more are scheduled. But it all means nothing without YOU gathering signatures. If we don’t get the signatures, Put-Back won’t be on the ballot in November and we won’t be able to reform our state.
500,000 signatures seems like an insurmountable obstacle to get reform on the ballot in November, but it looks bigger than it really is. All it takes is concerned citizens like you to fill out one sheet of signatures at a time.
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The Put-Back Amendment Update”
This is a new video from the Sam Adams Alliance…
Most of us have had some experience with the Tea Party movement over the past year. Maybe you attended or organized a rally, watched one on t.v., or saw the media coverage given to these protests. You may have formed an opinion of this group of people through experience, or through the lens of others’ opinions, good or bad.
Recent attention to this movement has again revived, with the election of Scott Brown and growing media attention.
In January, SAM had the opportunity to conduct extensive market research with leaders of the Tea Parties, both through questionnaires and through in-depth one-on-one interviews.
What we found challenges much of the information currently on the market.
Now see what the activists themselves had to say about the Tea Parties: their motivations, their fears, and who they support for president in 2012.
(Palatine, Illinois) – March 1, 2010 – A group of taxpaying citizens dissatisfied with government spending and expansion are planning a Taxed Enough Already (TEA) rally to be held on April 15th in Palatine, Illinois. This peaceful rally is part of a national movement to increase public awareness of the spending of trillions of dollars which will leave our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren a devastating and ruinous debt they must re-pay.
This family-friendly rally encourages all citizens throughout the suburban area who want lower taxes and less government to participate by bringing their American flags, patriotic attire, and signs to display the spirit of the Colonial Patriots of the 1775 Boston Tea Party, which lead to American Independence July 4th, 1776. Re-affirm your commitment to our Constitution and our freedoms by being part of this energizing event on Thursday, April 15th, 3:00pm to 6:30pm, at Volunteer Plaza in Palatine at the intersection of N. Northwest Hwy (Route 14) and N. Hicks Road.
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Announcing Taxed Enough Already (TEA) Rally on April 15th Palatine, Illinois”
Right to Carry Meeting in Chicago
UTATU Collective Presents:
A TOWN HALL MEETING on GUNS, VIOLENCE, AND THE RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE!
Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2010
7:00 to 9:30 p.m.
Northeastern Illinois University
Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies
700 East Oakwood Blvd., Chicago, IL
Right to carry is coming to CHICAGO this week. This should be interesting. It looks like even Richard Daley is having trouble keeping right to carry out in 2010. It’s only just begun, Dick!!!
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2nd Amendment Rally at Northwestern University”
-By Warner Todd Huston
WJBD radio of downstate Salem (just east of St. Louis) reported on the Marion County Lincoln Day Dinner at which appeared Congressman John Shimkus (R, 19th District).
who told the assembled crowd that Obamacare was “a step toward socialism.”
“I just wish we could start over. We are not doing this to say don’t do anything. But we are saying let’s get a clean sheet of paper and list where we agree and lets fix those. Then we can go again and list another series,” the Congressman told WJBD.
Shimkus says Congress also needs to deal with the huge national debt that has tripled in the past few years, rising to a level that draws questions to the soundness of the government. “We have to address entitlement programs, which means addressing social security, means testing, extending the retirement age, getting a better return on the money that you have available, addressing medicare and medicaid, Shimkus said. “This health care bill takes 500-billion dollars out of medicare. Now Medicare is already going broke, how do you sustain that?”
Shimkus was the Republican that walked out of Obama’s State of the Union address late last year and has been a stalwart anti-Obamacare advocate in Congress.
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Ill. Congressman Shimkus Says Obamacare is ‘Socialism’”
From the Office of State Senator Chris Lauzen, 25th District…
I deeply appreciate the landslide support that voters in the Republican Primary provided for me and our volunteers. It is a privilege to work for you, and I will do my best for you and your family.
The people I serve just want honest competence from their government. I have learned that constituents will forgive me for making mistakes, as long as I learn from them, and if they can trust that I won’t lie to them and won’t steal from them.
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Republican reformation: honest competence”
“The public understands what’s in this bill and they’ve rejected it … the premise yesterday was ‘what’s it going to take for Republicans to vote for this bill that Americans don’t like,’ and we’ve said, ‘let’s start over and start with a clean sheet of paper.’”
Congressman Peter Roskam (R, Ill.)
On FOX News today with Jane Skinnard Peter Roskam said that Americans and Republicans remained firmly opposed to Democrats’ massive health care takeover plans, instead urging an incremental approach that focuses on costs as a way to expand coverage. Roskam participated in President Obama’s Blair House Health Summit yesterday and felt that Speaker Pelosi, Senator Reid and the President were not willing to negotiate honestly with the GOP.
Roskam On White House Health Summit and Democrats’ Overhaul”
The folks at the Palatine Tea Party have alerted us to the fact that Congressman Melissa Bean will be holding a town hall to hear from her constituents on Feb. 27.
According to the Palatine folks, Bean will be moving around quite a bit on Saturday appearing at several stores throughout the day. It strikes me as sort of odd, but apparently she is touring four Jewel-Osco grocery stores and will be meeting in the aisles near the entrance to the stores. I guess she doesn’t expect too many attendees since she isn’t meeting at a sit-down venue but rather in the aisles of a grocery store.
Anyway, here is the schedule:
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8th District Congressman Bean Holding Town Meeting Feb. 27″
Going Nuclear
What a difference five years makes. Back then, when Republicans were toying with the notion of ramming a bill through Congress, it was a “naked power grab” and a constitutional crisis. Today, however, such a move is apparently okey-dokey. You can watch the painful evidence by clicking on the video above.
Ill. Policy Institute: Jake Gets Out of Jail”
-By Zahcary S. Oltmanns
I am more confident now than ever that Conservatives can take back Illinois and in fact most of the country. Everything the liberals have done the past few years has failed. Sadly, America has suffered. As I go from event to event I am meeting average citizens that are tired of the direction America is heading. In fact, 52% of Americans do NOT want President Obama re-elected in 2012 according to a CNN poll. The healthcare plan turned out to be a total disaster for the Democrats and it has hurt them deeply. The stimulus package has failed as well and it was run very poorly. According to recovery.gov Illinois has been awarded $3,905,380,000 and with that money we have created just 11,280 jobs. So by doing the math the American tax payer is paying over $270,000 for each job that stimulus package has created.
I have said this a lot but I will say it again, Americans are no longer asking for fiscal responsibility, they are demanding it! No longer will Americans accept our elected officials spending our tax dollars recklessly.
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Why Conservatives Can Win this Year in Illinois”
From Adam Andrzejewski…
Today, Adam Andrzejewski, founder of good government organization For the Good of Illinois and former Republican Gubernatorial candidate, called for the Illinois Republican Party to reform itself in the name of good government. “In the election of the Republican State Central Committee, County Chairman are allowed to vote vacant precincts. This allows them to benefit from vacancies, and creates a strong disincentive to build our party. If county chairman can cast the votes of the empty precincts- why do the hard work of filling them?”, Andrzejewski stated.
“While running for Governor, my campaign took the time to identify and help hundreds of new people run for precinct committeemen. Allowing County bosses to vote vacant precincts dilutes the vote of committeemen who actually do the heavy lifting of electing Republicans,” Andrzejewski continued, “Let’s welcome our new committeemen, respect our existing ones.”
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Andrzejewski Calls on Illinois Republican Party to Reverse Rule”
Americans for Prosperity applauds Governor Quinn for opening an online comment portal offering the general public an opportunity to view and comment on the states budget dilemma.
On March 10, 2010 Governor Quinn will be making his annual budget address. Governor Quinn has made it clear that he believes the only way out of the states financial mess is to raise our taxes.
Americans for Prosperity strongly disagrees!
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Americans for Prosperity: A Message to Governor Quinn”
CHIGAGO – February 25, 2010 – Four Chicago-based Republican candidates will host a joint fund-raiser on Thursday, March 4 at 6:00 p.m. at The Stretch, 3485 North Clark St. in Chicago. Illinois state hopefuls David Anderson, Adam Robinson and Scott Tucker will join federal candidate David Ratowitz in a mass muster of support for their individual General Election campaigns.
Admission to the event is two-tier: $30 covers cash bar and appetizers; $60 includes appetizers and open bar from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The public is welcome; no RSVP is required.
Promotional opportunities are available for third-party organizations. Prospective event sponsors are asked to contact Caitlin Huxley, 312-841-0172 or CaitlinHuxley@gmail.com. Co-sponsors currently include Chicago Young Republicans and Illinois Log Cabin Republicans.
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Republican Challengers in Chicago Unite for March 4 Fund-raiser”
From the campaign of Joe Walsh for Congress, 8th District…
Participates in Special Olympics Polar Plunge Charity Event
(Lake Zurich, Illinois) – February 25, 2010 –
Taking a break from his own campaign fund-raising, Joe Walsh, Republican candidate for Congress in the Illinois 8th, will be participating this Sunday in the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run Polar Plunge Charity Event to raise funds for the Special Olympics.
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8th District: Joe Walsh Jumps in Fox Lake”
SPRINGFIELD – February 24, 2010. Officials from Governor Pat Quinn’s Administration today announced that, for the first time in Illinois’ history, the public can actively participate in the state’s budgeting process. The Governor’s Office of Management and Budget (GOMB) today launched www.budget.illinois.gov, a Web site that allows Illinois residents to provide feedback that will be used to shape the state’s fiscal year 2011 budget.
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Illinois Budget Now Online, Governor Wants YOUR Comments”
-By Warner Todd Huston
Estimates of voter participation proved that the February primary didn’t garner much interest. With less than 30 percent of registered voters turning out to nominate those that will run in November, moving the primary to February was obviously a bad move. Of course, this year’s primary was moved up to February in a 2007 bill that was meant to give Barack Obama a boost in 2008. But several bills meant to move the primary back to its traditional third Tuesday in March schedule have been introduced in Springfield.
State Rep. Elaine Nekritz (D, Northbrook) wants the primary moved right back to its old date in March and has introduced a bill in the Illinois House to do so.
It was passed the committee unanimously and heads to the full House soon.
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Bill Proposals Move Ill. Primary Back to March”