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Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:01:00 -0000

Rod was a gadfly lawyer who was a runner for Vrdolyak and even ran his lakefront operation until he married Patti Mell.

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:50:00 -0000

Abby OttenHOFF is HOT !!! I saw her on TV recently, don't let the name fool you, She's a 10. The Gov should hire some ugly people to get the ugly vote in the state of Illinois.

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:03:00 -0000

Actually the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District is a very competitive seat -- its a countwide race with an electorate larger than a good number of states. Avila came in fourth out of eleven -- the three incumbents won -- nothing to sneeze at.

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:08:00 -0000

Watch the best governor we had in Illinois in a long time crush Dominic Longo and Mell like bugs.
They can use their fancy lawyers and help from Rove and Bush and they will still get crushed.

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:24:00 -0000

Avila is certainly a better attorney than Rod ever was.

I don't by the Rove and Bush thing either.

Rod is not presidential timber.

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:22:00 -0000

Abby OttenHOFF is the guv's press secretary, but Tusk never has been...

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:10:00 -0000

Let's buy into this Rove thing for the sake of arguement for a minute: If you're Rove (or any national GOP operative,) and you have the goods on a potential Dem opponent, wouldn't you keep it to yourself until the point in time when releasing the damaging info would be of most help to you, i.e., when that opponent has the nomination wrapped up?

The only reason you would look to hurt Blago now would be if you believed he is such a scary-good candidate....much better than Edwards, Richardson, Bayh, Kerry II, or anyone else....that he has to be stopped now! I'm sorry, Blago ain't the second coming of FDR. He's not making Rove or anyone else quake in their boots. If he gets comfortably re-elected and starts sniffing around Iowa, then the GOP will pay attention. Right now, he's not on the list of the top ten or twelve pontential Dem candidates. (Whoa, wait a second...I have to stop. The thought of Blago running for president is about to make my head explode!!!!!)

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Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:42:00 -0000

Did Avila meet with Rove or not?

The Bushes and Rove would jump into bed with the devil let alone a Chicago alderman and a two bit gadfly lawyer to stop opposition. you should read the memoirs of Lee Atwater and the stuff they did to hurt up and comers.

and didn't Commissioner win the election that is why he is the commissioner

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:29:00 -0000

Rove joining up with Aliva and Mell? C'mon, let's not get carried away with ourselves Blago-ites. I have a hard time believing Rod is on the Bushies' radar screen. And if he were, do you really think Rove would climbed into to bed with a two-bit Democratic gadfly, like Aliva, who can't get elected to something called the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District?

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:53:00 -0000

Longo has worked with Mayor Daley in the past, he ran some of his political campaigns in the North West side, is it possible that he is doing this for the Mayor ?

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:45:00 -0000

Longo is sexy and has a great tan.
I would date him any day of the week, is he single.

He should be a movie star.

Longo is much better looking than Rod.

Longo does look like a tough mafia type though.

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:42:00 -0000

Longo does have a championship level tan though.

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:14:00 -0000

Abby Ottendorf is a press secretary just like Bradley Tusk was.

Where does Governor Blagojevich get these fools?

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:53:00 -0000

Hey Rich! We need a scorecard here or at least some sort of family tree. Now that this is all starting to spill out we need a bit of context. Which players are in play and who's just noise?

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 01:06:00 -0000

What article? An article from the Illinos Leader -- real credible news source. You probably watch the Daily Show for your news as well. It was never proven that Dominic vistited any tanning salon while at work -- no disciplinary actions even occured.

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:04:00 -0000

"Do we not give people second chances in life?"

If you're an ethical crusader, there are no second chances. You're either wrong -- or you're right.

If you're right, you stay employed.

If you're wrong -- you're fired. A press conference gets called, Rod bounds out with his sleeves rolled up, photographs get taken, and -- "Fingers crossed, guys!" -- poll numbers go up.

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:55:00 -0000

What is this nonsense about over 20 years ago. Dominic Longo was charged with things recently.
Look at the articles. He was going to tanning beds on the city job.

The governor tried to rehabilitate Longo but when he continued his ways and his association with John Quarters Boyle, he had to get rid of him.

Quarters stole millions of dollars which is why they nicknamed him Quarters.

Boyle recently was indicted with Tomczak in the Water Department and the mob bookie Nick Stick LaCoco.

Longo should retire and get out of politics.

Maybe Avila should get some decent clients, but he is probably getting paid a lot.

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:45:00 -0000

Dominic Longo has gotten an undeserved bad reputation. Of course what he did over 20 years ago was wrong, but that was over 20 years ago. Do we not give people second chances in life?

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:26:00 -0000

Rod clean??? What a joke.
Panda Express, Chris Kelly, Tony Retzko

that is enough to take him down

let alone all the little stuff like hiring indicted former alderman Ray Frias

and the 4 children from different babies mamas from Obadallie

or Milan Petrovic

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:10:00 -0000

Who is Abby whateveherlastname is?
And did she really claim that The Guv never knew Dominic Longo?

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:08:00 -0000

Dominic Longo should imitate Dick Mell and apologize and get over it. Longo wanted a big job in state government and Rod said NO because he doesn't want people like Longo having jobs in his administration and people like Dick Mell having influence over his administration.

Why doesn't little Avila Jr send a letter to Daley threatening to sue? And I thought Avila was a reformer going against HDO and trying to reduce the signature requirement for Mayor for ballot access. Avila is the hypocrite getting a job for Dominic Longo even if Rod asked him to, which Avila should of just kept his mouth shut about, didn't Avila ask for big legal contracts from the state?

How much credibility does Avila have being a reformer if he is the attorney for Dominic Longo? Is Avila Jr so stupid that he doesn't know that Longo worked with HDO?

The governor is the real reformer. Mell is a hasbeen. Longo is a crook. And Avila is stupid.

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:43:00 -0000

I love those of you, on both sides of this issue, who throw around your bathroom prattle as if it were based in fact. You can drop your Rove/Avila conspiracies as well as your 'clean hands' Rod nonsense. They are both misplaced. Stop looking for Clancyesque subplots.

Rod went out of his way to create a fight to bolster his credibility and now it is coming back to bite him in the ass, and will continue to for a while. It is one thing to hurt people politically, another thing to hurt them personally as well. The reactions to him are the actions of those who are fed up with his duplicity and with being sh*t on. If Rod had nothing to worry about, he wouldn't be worried. That's not the case.

Remember when everybody loved George Ryan, and the lightning speed with which that tide turned? Rod has just as many enemies as George, with fewer of the friends.

Re: Longo and Blago

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:34:00 -0000

Clearly, from that pic you can tell that Longo was not employed with the city at that time. If he was, he would have TWO pagers hanging on that belt next to his over-sized cell phone, standard gear for the Ward goon squad.