No, I cannot afford your $100 political fundraiser.
To all the pols out there cluttering my mailbox, inbox and voicemail, save your money. What were you thinking? Don’t invite me to your fundraiser unless the ticket price is much more reasonable.
Please, take a lesson from Barack Obama. Make your fundraisers affordable for the average person. Forget [...]
From WTAE Pittsburgh:
Economists expect the recovery to remain "firmly on track" over the next two years though job growth is likely to remain slow, according to a new survey.
The latest outlook from The National Association for Business Economics, set to be released Monday, sees regular job gains resuming this quarter but no drop in [...]
Something about pots calling kettles something comes to mind here…
From the Wall Street Journal:
Sen. Christopher S. Bond regularly railed against President Obama’s economic stimulus plan as irresponsible spending that would drive up the national debt. But behind the scenes, the Missouri Republican quietly sought more than $50 million from a federal agency [...]
From the Chicago Tribune:
The mother of former Cicero Town President Betty Loren-Maltese continues to receive health care benefits from the town, even though coverage should have expired when she stepped down as a member of a town commission in 2001.
Kitty Loren, 88, who served on the town’s Police and Fire Commission for 10 years, said [...]
From our friends at ENEWSPF:
From CNN:
Sen. Evan Bayh is expected to announce Monday that he will not seek a third term in the Senate, a source close to the Indiana Democrat told CNN.
Political speculation from AmericaBlog:
Bayh may have really screwed the Democrats here. I just looked up the filing requirements for Senate primary candidates [...]
New York Times columnist Frank Rich makes it clear in today’s column that Sarah Palin has not set a trap for liberals all over the world when she wrote crib notes on the palm of her hand last week to carry her through speeches and interviews at a Tea Party convention. Calling Palin "nothing if [...]
The Chicago Sun-Times says it has a source who tells them the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor Scott Lee Cohen is looking for an honorable way to withdraw from the general election.
That’s the good news in a week when we learned some very, very bad things about Scott Lee Cohen.
Facing intense and mounting pressure to [...]
From ENEWSPF:
Our pick for judge in the 15th Subcircuit, Phelan vacancy, is Judge John C. Griffin of Palos Heights. Griffin has four opponents, and was appointed to the bench in 2008. He sits in the Chancery Division.
Judge Griffin is a true Democrat. One of his opponents in the Democratic Primary is [...]
Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias is scheduled to get a big boost Sunday when Jacob Meister withdraws from the Democratic primary. Meister is expected to endorse Giannoulias.
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Attorney Jacob Meister will pull out of the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Sunday and throw his support to State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, Meister said tonight.
“Alexi [...]
Washington, D.C.–January 30, 2010.
At this time last year, amidst headlines about banks on the verge of collapse and job losses of 700,000 a month, we received another troubling piece of news about our economy. Our economy was shrinking at an alarming rate – the largest six-month decline in 50 years. Our factories and farms were [...]
