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Re: Cheryl Jackson - There's no excuse for being MIA as a relatively unknown statewide candidate, especially south of the 708 area code.
That rumbling I heard yesterday wasn't the thunderstorm after all... it was Richard J. Daley turning over in his grave!
I agree with Mark Brown that it is "a tad bit hypocritical."
It reminds me of how hillary clinton didn't want to seat florida and michigan delegates originally, but flipped and decided later that she did. we all know why she flipped.
But, really after what we have seen from governor pat quinn this year is anybody truly surprised by his flipping and hypocrisy any more? If so, why?
I mean, what more does one need to see?
He's had his ups and downs in his short time in office with establishment types, but it's not like a Dan Walker situation where the party barons couldn't wait to deny him in his run for re-election.
Quinn and Hynes is going to be a brawl worthy of climactic scene in The Quiet Man.
But wasn't it quinn earlier this year who lobbied for and got Mike Madigan to agree that the party would not fund/support anyone? so, just like with the cutback amendment Quinn did himself yet another disservice? No, I guess that was back when he still consider himself a democratic party outsider and didn't want all of the money and support to go to lisa madigan. But, since she's not running for governor...
She would have been dogged by questions on that, and she probably isn't ready to answer.
Also she may be getting a glimpse of just how hard it is to run for a major political office logistically speaking,especially since she is getting off to a bit of a late and slow start.
If the republicans can find one strong personality to pull it all together they can flip this state.
If only they had not set sail in a leaky dinghy, just had the captain bail the ship, and are fighting over who gets to man the rutter. The GOP is setting itself up to be sunk by that storm.
Alexi will be our next U.S. Senator from Illinois.
i applaud the courage and convictions of trustees montgomery and carroll who intend to fight quinn, and rightfully so. i saw and heard them on chicago tonight the other day, and i was glad to have heard their side. i agreed with rich samuels' take on the matter too, in which he took a subtle jab at the governor whose been running around talking about how he is fair, this is a democracy, and how he likes to negotiate with people.
the mikva commission goofed on its recommendation that all trustees resign, especially given the fact that not all trustees did anything improper, questionable or wrong.
the four who have suggested that they will resign, should not have---the should have stuck to their guns the way montgomery and carroll are poiosed to do.
really, why can't governor pat quinn ever seem to make good decsions? his my way or the high way non-gray area and no room for compromise stance on everything is really sad and inexplicable.
just more proof as to why he is not good for the governor's office.
I could not agree more. And, I believe that if the two trustees remaining are as determined as they seem to be that there will be a lawsuit about what exactly the state Constitution means when it gives him power to terminate these trustees for malfeasance and/or incompetence. I've seen no proof of either, except for possibly the first two trustees that resigned - Mr. Eppley and the Chairman. And, it is ultimately Mr. White who is responsible for running the U of I. I believe he and the Chancellor at the U of I Urbana-Champaign campus should probably resign. The Governor once again proves he moves only as the press/public opinion moves and that he is clearly incompetent to be Governor or to make decisions.
http://www.wgil.com/localnews.php?xnewsaction=f...
yesterday and today I have read several independent news accounts of Hynes' act of deference to Quinn, and I found nothing wrong in what Hynes did. In fact I thought it was great that he took the high road, and decided not to play into the media fodder which focused on the digs politicans got in at one another's expense, as rich miller pointed out.
Besides I love the poetic justice of how it stormed on Pat Quinn's Governor's Day bringing it to an aburpt halt. Yesterday's stormy weather is a foreshadowing of how his short-lived governorship will play out. his governship has been quite stormy.
as I see it Quinn doesn't have much going for himself in terms of bold decisive leadership, through his commissions. His reform commission was largely a bust, and it remains to be seen how his Burr Oak commission pans out.
So, the U of I commission is hisonly chance at present to build some much needed political capital in advance of the primary. he needs to be able to say that I cleaned up clout at the U of I---I got rid of all trustees who served while clout admissions occured. Of course we all know that without going after legislators involved in the clout admissions there really was no clean up of anything. Furthermore, the U of I really cleaned itself up on the matter, and has institued safeguards and polices to prohibit clout admissions in future.
The two or so trustees who resigned weeks ago did so because their actions when bought to light were inappropriate and questionable.
I strongly urge the remaining trustees, especially Montgomery and Carroll, not to resign just become a notch on pat quinn's (gubernatorial race) political belt. They should not let him use them in that wat. If they have never engaged in any clout admissions then they have no reason to resign because resigning only makes them look like they are guilty of something.
And, the notion that one of the trustees put out earlier this week that by staying they're making the gov's job hard made no sense and sounded weak. being governor is a hard job. quinn lobbied for it, ultimately got it and now has to deal with being governor and all that it entails (the good, the bad and the ugly). either he is up to the hard job or he is not, but it is not the job of trustees to make his job easy for him.