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Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

Been There — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:57:57 -0000

Rich, I don't know if you will read this since it is a late posting. But this thread is a perfect example of why I understand why you try to stick to state politics.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

Gob Bluth — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:41:59 -0000

Alexi G just finished smirking his way through the interview on Chicago Tonight-- I say smirking b/c when the PAC money issue came up that's all he could muster when Phil Ponce caught him on his duplicitous stance on the issue. News flash Alexi....... if you're going to try to hit Mark Kirk on the "special interest" money angle-- you're going to get it right back b/c you'll have to eventually acknowledge that money from unions, trial lawyers, state lobbyists, or the DSCC/DNC (money comes from the above and other pro-business special interests) is just as "dirty" as receiving money from federal lobbyists.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:24:57 -0000

Ben S.

Or Alexi on pac donations:)

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

Ben S. — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:01:11 -0000

@ Shore 12:43 PM

"True mark of a career politician, disingenuously changing positions to get higher office."

Yeah, she's just like Mark Kirk on Cap-and-Trade!

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

whoah — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:33:47 -0000

The 1-2 cranks on this site seem to have something personal against Hamos. As Democrats go, she is impressive. The majority of Dems are fairly cowardly and not willing to risk anything if it doesn't get them re-elected (including passing a budget). Hamos isn't like that. She actually tries to solve policy problems, not just pass meaningless laws just to say she passed a law. She is not a lemming, and takes principled stances. She doesn't worship Madigan. What more do these people want? She is willing and able to actually LEAD, and this is a great loss for the Illinois House.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

Rob_N — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:48:19 -0000

Phil,

Did you find a backdoor into her site?

Her actual homepage is
http://www.juliehamos.org/

And, it doesn't look like whatever you found is there now anyway but congrats on giving Team Am another stupid put-down for its romper room.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

phil — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:31:14 -0000

oops,

Here's the link:

http://salsa.wiredforchange...

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

phil — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:24:11 -0000

Hi Rich,

See anything funny about this page in Hamos' campaign website? I wonder if Ms. Hamos wants to raise taxes on everybody so she can use public funds to pay for her campaign for congress.

Nice start--'Lamos'.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

Rob_N — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:08:57 -0000

Rich, party pooper. ;)

But you are correct sir.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

heet101 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:52:22 -0000

Her campaign video LOL - Wow. I mean, reading from a stack of papers? haha. That's all I can do is just laugh. Who cares what she had to say if that's how she presented it.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

Mr. Know-it-All — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:42:56 -0000

VanillaMan - Hamos and Feigenholtz are two Jewish women who've served for some time in the Illinois House. Insofar as their congressional campaigns are concerned, the similarities end there. The race for the 5th CD was an odd special election with a dozen or so Democratic candidates, in a classically Chicagoan Dem district, on a day when nobody was voting. The race for the 10th CD nomination will have much higher turnout on a big primary day in a district with very different political leanings and history.

That's not to say that Hamos is primed to do better or worse than Feigenholtz. It's just a whole different set of factors next Feburary than this past March.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

Rich Miller — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:38:57 -0000

Rob, I think that may have been a Hotline error, not a GOP flub.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

Rob_N — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:27:49 -0000

Scooby, That's hilarious.

Can't the national GOP get anything right?

Kinzinger's running in 11th against Halvorsen, not the open 10th that the NRCC lists. (Unless he suddenly changed his mind.)

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

Scooby — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:08:45 -0000

NRCC providing help to Kinzinger.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

wordslinger — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:35:41 -0000

That's a hilarious quote from Madigan. Reminds me of back in the day whenever Pate would enter the House, Madigan would introduce him as "that great humanitarian."

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

L.S. — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:42:19 -0000

Oh, and lakeview - your posts read a little too much like a campaign website. But assuming your just an independant observer, this line:

--i think her stance on taxes will be viewed as principled--

is freaking hilarous. You clearly haven't read a poll on tax issues in Cook and the collars in a while.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

L.S. — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:39:27 -0000

that's a classic madigan line. Funny stuff. It also serves as a nice little reminder of how eager Hamos, Tom Cross, Sacia and others were to give Blago billions more in contracts to illegaly sell off to the highest bidder. Because, of course they knew Lisa was going to run for governor and the speaker didn't want Rod to cut ribbons. What a difference a year makes.

Hamos is a typical hollier-than-thou type limo-lib. To say she is out-of-touch with your average homeowner with kids paying taxes and slugging through a reccession while their 401k tanks would be an understatement. Didn't she refer to voters as cockroaches not that long ago? The transit stuff got her some press but it's not like that problem is totally solved. I think the more people ge to know her, the less they will like her. I've met her. She's a nice enough person, but when introducing herself to voters for the first time, it will be hard for her to avoid looking awkward and cold.

Seals actually regressed as a candidate last year and his shop was terribly disorganized. This seat should be a D pick up, but for the candidates.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

Shore — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:31:17 -0000

Fair enough Rich. But you should still write the book while Obama is in office and you can make serious money.

If chris matthews can write the same book 6 times on basically nothing and sell it, you can write a book on 2008 and one of the defining years in Illinois political history and market it to a national and international audience.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

Rich Miller — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:05:24 -0000

been there, you apparently weren't around this year. Things are not good between those two.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

been there — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:03:52 -0000

probably we should keep in mind that julie hamos's husband is alan greiman, who for a few years was mike madigan's right-hand guy in the house, until madigan helped him get to be a judge.

mike madigan isn't hurt by anything that julie hamos says, but distancing herself from him helps her. his mildly snarky line about her sounds to me like his little effort to play this in the way that helps her.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

lakeview lawyer — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:58:24 -0000

elaine nekritz introduced julie and served a mistress of ceremonies at the announcement.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

Team America — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:57:28 -0000

Phineas- the Herald article linked to above stated: "About 100 people attended Tuesday's event. Other prominent supporters in attendance included state lawmakers Elaine Nekritz and Karen May." Whether their attendance amounts to an official endorsement of Hamos to the detriment of Seals, I can't say.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

Segatari — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:53:17 -0000

Lack of cultural diversity has nothing to do with the GOP's problems, how many times do I have to say it? Turning away from and rejecting conservatism has taken the GOP to where it is now.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

Phineas J. Whoopee — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:52:07 -0000

I will be interested to see who folks like Elaine Nekritz and Mike Kreloff are supporting. I know they like Seals but nobody wants to back a 2 time loser.

Re: A few Hamos strengths and weaknesses

Rich Miller — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:45:52 -0000

Shore, take a breath, man. Somebody's website is not the be-all, end-all.

Hamos was rightly critical of Blagojevich's plan to lease the Lottery and use the cash for education because it was just a four-year plan. She said she was most concerned about what happened after those four years expired. That's fiscal responsibility, and it's just one example.

Again, tone it down, dude.