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Re: Fun with Proft

A.K.A. Dorothy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:52:29 -0000

Dan is extremely intelligent and a great guy! He knows how to run campaigns and now will be the perfect candidate. It is time to stop the Chicago Machine from taking over the rest of Illinois! Someone needs to stop them-and he can do it!It is a good thing that someone who really knows the issues can finally take them on.

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wordslinger — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:49:06 -0000

--You are all pathetic..--

Marco, when you Proft guys really turn on the charm like that, my knees start to buckle.

Take a lesson from Francis Urqhuart -- he was never quite so public with his misanthropy.

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Marco — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:20:17 -0000

You are all pathetic, except maybe "Irked." I have wasted 5 minutes of my life reading these gossipy blog comments that I will never get back. I was looking for just one real critique of Profts ideas and policy arguements. The closest I found was an ok rewrite of his speech by a guy that sounds like he needs a job. If any of you could stop using media buzz words like "Cicero" and "No bid" long enough to read Dan's ideas, you might actually be surporised at how right he is.

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You gotta point — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:34:43 -0000

Danny Davis is on Ways & Means Committee so why would he want to leave Congress? He can shovel projects to his home district and Illinois til the cows come home! More importantly- who will take his place?

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Danny — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:52:07 -0000

Patti Blagojevich would get more votes than Dan Proft.

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Skeeter — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:08:08 -0000

Shared Responsibility --
Thanks. I misread the post.
That's even worse though. After all those years of Todd, I might just leave the county if we are going to have four years of Danny K. Davis. Or maybe I will do something completely insane,like voting for Peraica.

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Wumpus — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:38:35 -0000

I don't think Prof(i)t cares about winning, he wants the limelight of a campaign..to argue with people and to make himself a goto guy on something other than American Idol (for WLS, We Love Starfu...loving).

Marin, is this part really necessary? ...we can see how much money he actually siphoned from this blue-collar, mostly Hispanic community

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Shared Responsibility — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:34:34 -0000

Skeeter:

Davis isn't running for Claypool's seat -- he's running for Board President.

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Obamarama — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:32:57 -0000

You're a professional PR consultant yet Marin and Zorn get under your skin?

You're a professional PR consultant yet you go on the defensive crying "liberal media bias!" when a reporter tells you that he can't wait to cover your campaign.

Hack.

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the Other Anonymous — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:22:07 -0000

Is now a good time to remind folks that Proft named his PR firm after the fictional character Francis Urquhart (called FU for short) who commits blackmail and murder in his quest for political power?

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Phineas J. Whoopee — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:12:01 -0000

Proft is right about Marin not letting facts get in the way of her slant, however, he just gets upset because she manipulates better than him.

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Leroy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:01:13 -0000

Glad to see fat contracts off poor minorities is becoming quite an issue.

Now when can I see this applied to other politicians in Illinois? I'm anxious.

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Carl Nyberg — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:55:45 -0000

Proft blames all attacks against him in the media on the fact that liberals run the media.

Last time I saw Proft he was speaking to the media on behalf of the Morton HS board of education.

Morton was considering *expelling* students for non-violently protesting the Iraq War.

Proft claimed that the punishments had nothing to do with ideology.

But in reading Proft's complaints, it seems everything is about ideology to this guy.

BTW, how is being a PR flack for a medium-sized town with a bad reputation a stepping stone to becoming governor?

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Amy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:53:36 -0000

the flap over the paper Proft started in college was all over the mainstream press here. probably some interesting quotes and thoughts from the young right winger back then. Proft is astoundingly bold in now claiming that he worked to defeat the huge public trough he worked for, the corrupt folks in Cicero.

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Skeeter — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:47:18 -0000

Wordslinger
And how did that work out for everyone?

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Arthur Andersen — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:40:05 -0000

Rob, tell us how you really feel. j/k.

Personally, AA thinks the guy is such a tool his parents should have named him Snap-On.

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wordslinger — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:35:19 -0000

Skeeter, he was on the board before Congress.

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Skeeter — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:31:55 -0000

I'm old enough that I almost never recoil in horror at anything written on Cap Fax, but the note that Danny Davis might run for Claypool's old seat sure did it.

Danny Davis for the Cook County Board? I was trying to imagine a job where Danny Davis could do more damage than he does in his current position. That might be it. Has Davis ever said no to any spending? He is the exact opposite of what the Cook County Board needs.

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wordslinger — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:30:48 -0000

Guy seems to have an awful thin skin for a politician.

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Niles Township — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:20:35 -0000

Anyone remember that Danny Davis could have spared us Toddler's years a sprez if he gave his to have his name put into nomination at the time.

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Rob_N — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:17:43 -0000

Just sayin, Proft's not a bully...

He's a loudmouth D-list conservative spinster Ann Coulter-wannabe with an ego as big as Blago's.

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Just sayin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:01:32 -0000

This is a fight Dan Proft can't win. There is no explaining away his shady dealings in Cicero.

Also note that Cicero's new spokesman also works for Proft's media company. I would have to assume then he's still feeding off Cicero and its low income residents. And who knows what the status is of all the other contracts.

Any conservative or any other Republican who attaches to this guy is making a big mistake. Cicero is guaranteed to produce more embarrassing news, which of course begs the question, if you create bad press for your client, how well are you performing as a PR person? What is the town paying for exactly?

Carol Marin has the moral high ground on this one and hopefully she's not done. Proft has said some really nasty things about her. Proft likes to complain about bullies, but he's the biggest one out there.

Also take a look at how Dominick, with the help of one or more of Proft's employees, are trying to smear those women who came forward with allegations of sexual harrassment against Dominick. Town resources are being used to smear and intimidate women who work for the town. It also looks like they're trying to scare other women who might think of coming foward.

Proft can't run away from any of that. I personally think he's just running for governor to divert attention. In any case, he's not a serious candidate.

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Irked — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:00:51 -0000

=== â€œI am running for governor so that others like me, who might have lost faith in their party and their state, know that a choice exists and know that their fight has been joined,â€ ===

"Their fight has been joined"?

Is he running for Governor or Knight of the Round Table?

And lost faith in their state? Who EVER had faith in state government? Certainly not any Republicans.

try this, Dan-O:

"I'm running for governor because, like so many other Republicans, I believe our Party has abandoned its core principles, and we can't get Illinois back on the right track until we get our party back on the right track. Instead of debating raising taxes, we should be debating lowering taxes. Instead of debating the creation of new government programs, we should be debating the creation of new jobs."

And to answer Marin's question, who does a Henchman like Proft hire to be his Henchman?

Someone like me, if he can.

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Jackson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:59:03 -0000

I love when conservatives can't defend their positions so the blame the "liberal media". It pathetic.

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BigDog — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:56:40 -0000

â€œI donâ€™t believe thereâ€™s anybody in this state that has more innovative market-oriented ideas than I do.â€

I guess it's hard to argue this point when stated by a man who earned 300 Large to be spokesman for a building!