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Re: Question of the day

Taxpayer #1 — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:50:47 -0000

Anon, Ninja and Wumpus - Did any of you get a $1500 check from the Guv for the birth of your child, kids christening, kids baptism, kids college fund, pre-k fund, karate class, tap/ballet classes or what ever you want to call it? Whoops, I forgot you don't have any job openings?

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Wumpus — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:14:32 -0000

Okay, I went home and dug up the birth piece. It is something congratulating us on the birth of a new daughter. It has form for immunization records and warns us to get immunizations by 2 months. It also has a slip insert to talk about the new law on public breastfeeding signed by Patti Blagojavich. The kicker is my daughter is closer to 15 months and as my wife said, who wants to breast feed someone with 8 teeth?

I also got something from Cook COunty COmmisioner candidate Tim Schneider. stating No more corruption, etc, so on and so forth.

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Martha Mitchell — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 23:22:54 -0000

The reason there seems to be a dirth of campaign literature this time is that the governor's crap is targeting specific populations; seniors, people with children and no insurance, undocumented workers and on and on. His name is in the largest font on the pages and he sends multiple items to the same households. My granddaughter came home with All Kids crap from school. Oval-filed it.

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Go Cain — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:27:25 -0000

Love the Cain ad making Flider look like a Blago clone. Flider is going to hurt by the image that he is controlled by Chicago politicans like Blago and Madigan.

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yeh — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:21:29 -0000

More Flider junk mail. Good fire starting stuff for cooking hot dogs over the open fire this fall.

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zatoichi — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:08:30 -0000

Got some stuff at home. Never bother to read it. Circular filed immediately wth other junk mail.

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Anonymous — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:08:45 -0000

In Rock Island county NO ONE is using the word FOR on their signs. This has caused a lot of talk up here:

Steve Haring - 71st District State Representative

He has never been elected State Rep.

But then Rep. Boland's signs have nothing about being State Rep on them They all say
FOR ILLINOIS
like he's not sure what he's running for this time.

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anon — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:18:32 -0000

I have seen a few Eric Wallace signs in the South Suburbs.

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Bridget Dooley — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:23:48 -0000

Nope, I haven't received anything in several weeks. I've seen a lot of TV ads and seen many, many Peraica signs in Chicago where I work.

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Squideshi — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:05:07 -0000

No. I requested a nonpartisan ballot at the last primary election, so they're not interested in me.

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So-Called "Austin Mayor" — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:38:11 -0000

I've only receive one in the last week -- a cardstock mailer from the Duckworth campaign featuring a large photo of an Addison man (Republican?) who had retired from the military and was expressing his anger at the misrepresentation of the John McCain/Tammy Duckworth position on immigration reform.

The clear focus of the piece was to tie Maj. Duckworth to Sen. McCain. That seems to build on the previous Bob Dole non-endorsement endorsement, i.e. Tammy Duckworth is the kind of Democrat that moderate independents and Republicans with military service can respect and support.

And the only way for her to pull this off will be to win nearly every McCain-style Republican vote. She needs all of the moderates -- maybe even those slightly center-right -- and everyone to their left to come out for her in November.

The campaign has cast the right net, the question is whether they can keep any of the voters they need from slipping away.

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Wumpus — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:33:11 -0000

Ninja, same here, except a daughter was born in July 05. My wife picked it up and said this is nice, but just over a year too late. Hopefully, she didn't throw it away, since I didn't have time to look at it. RE; the timing, I thought Blago finally paid the postage bill.

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Ashur Odishoo — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:22:31 -0000

My friend showed me a "legislative" mailing that Ken Dunkin sent out. It was paid for by state taxes. I thought this was illegal.

His name was HUGE across the top. This sort of stuff really needs to be cleaned up.

Ashur Odishoo
Candidate
State Representative 11th District

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cermak_rd — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:00:45 -0000

Nothing. It's as if the political mail fairy has gone on strike here on the West Side.

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CrunchyCon — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:52:03 -0000

In the last week, our parish nurse put up 2 posters for I-SaveRx and AllKids on the church bulletin board. The governor's name and office is across the bottom of both posters, near the information cards. The timing of these campaign, I mean promotional materials in uncanny.

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ninja — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:51:19 -0000

I too received a nice Hallmark card from the Governor congratulating my wife and me on the birth of our son who was born in July....of '05

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Marie — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:50:16 -0000

No mail. Yes!

But we had someone bring brochures for the Dem statewide candidates late Saturday morning.

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kdruben — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:49:12 -0000

I received two this weekend...

One from Bean's campaign which had a picture of David McSweeney with a smoke stack on it with his face fading away in the smoke. Inside it had the same information which had been used in all of her past pieces... His stance on abortion, his stance on embryonic stem cells, his stance on drilling in Lake Michigan and his efforts to weaken environmental standards. This is the seventh in the last week with all of the same things...

I got another one from Tim Schneider... something about "will not raise taxes, will be there for you, will need your vote." Very stupid, I thought.

Re: Question of the day

Anon — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:39:35 -0000

My wife and I received a card from the "Executive Mansion" congradulating us on the birth of our son. It encourages us to immunize him by two months, and is signed by the Governor.

My son was born fourteen months ago.

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B Hicks — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:21:20 -0000

Yeah, she's a real beauty.

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Bottom Line — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:46:38 -0000

I got one from Topinka and it was really good and she looks good too.

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Anonymous — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:37:10 -0000

I've gotten a few from Pavich. Some postive on him, the rest talking about Weller's voting record. They looked pretty well done. Weller has sent two out, mostly saying Pavich will raise taxes...

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big al — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:15:42 -0000

mysteriously quiet, which is great for voter turnout and enthusiasm. i guess there's no love affair for Dem operatives with Senior Blago

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Louis G. Atsaves — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:03:36 -0000

Nothing so far. It has been very quiet. But my neighbors to the North in the 8th Congressional District are being bombarded by Bean/McSweeney pieces.

Louis G. Atsaves

Re: Question of the day

decatur boy — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:55:04 -0000

a real thing piece from Bob Flider making himself to be icon like the Beatles. Sorry Bob,not.
You have lost that status with the Madigan attack campaign against little Scot England. Now, you are crying foul at Cain. Were you not a lobbyist for Illinois Power? Were you not a govt. affairs person for Ameron until December of 2005. Did you lobby for the auction concept?
Then there is the pension stuff.
We love you Bob but boy have you become one of them. I holding my nose and voting again for you but you are not the real deal.