Posted on 03/19/2018 7:55:46 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Far more people have cast early ballots for Illinois’ primary than did so four years ago, an increase that comes amid competitive contests for governor and other offices and record-breaking spending that has made the election nearly impossible to ignore.
More than 330,000 people had cast ballots for Tuesday’s primary as of Sunday, according to the Illinois State Board of Elections, and thousands more people were voting on Monday. The total in 2014 was just over 200,000.
Some of the biggest increases have been in Cook County, a Democratic stronghold that includes Chicago, where the number of early votes cast is almost three times the 2014 number. While some of the increase may be due to increased awareness of and comfort with early voting, officials noted the number of registered voters also has increased.
“From the top of the ballot to the bottom, there are contests on both the Democratic and Republican sides that have generated a great deal of attention and interest among voters,” said Cook County Clerk David Orr, who handles elections in the suburbs surrounding Chicago. …
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The Democrat vote-fraud machine is kicking into high gear.
Yep. The ComDems are “Frauds-R-us”.
I have to wonder if this escalation with Mueller, perhaps resulting with his firing, isn’t to just draw Democrats’ impeachment whispers and grumbles out into the open.
Democrats are fueled by rage and motivated due to their stunning presidential loss. Republicans always turn out in midterms, but the question is whose voters will turn out more.
If Trump fires Mueller, the midterms will become a referendum on impeachment since that’s all the communists will be talking about, openly and loudly, which I believe plays to his advantage.
The open corruption and ballot stuffing by the democrats warrants that National Guard . It is beyond any question. If we don’t stop the rampant voter fraud that we saw in Alabama and Pennsylvania, we are finished as nation.
Wow Illinois might become a blue state
It’s the Voting Dead, democrats all.
.... I just hope the Republicans have more than just being smug to counter whatever fraud and games are coming against them this election. We have had both time and resources to be ready.
.... Let the games begin ....
The latest poll has JEANNIE IVES down by SEVEN points — with 23% of voters still undecided. PRAY for a miracle! Get out the vote!
The view from Chicago: The vote fraud is omnipresent in this state and city and it’s no dominant this year than it is in any other year, what IS different this year is the ridiculous amount of ad spending, particularly TV ads. It’s like nobody running campaigns in Illinois learned a damn thing from Trump’s savvy use of internet, particularly youtube, advertising. You have a TON of new liberal groups running ads, including one devoted to taking down liberal congressman Dan Lipinski for not loving abortion enough. There are also democrat groups running ads in the REPUBLICAN governor primary, including one democrat group ginning up votes for republican gubernatorial candidate and former state senator Jeanne Ives. Democrat mouthpieces in the usual bought-and-paid-for outlets, the Chicago Tribune and WTTW and the like, are almost Br’er Rabbiting their columns about “don’t vote for unelectable Jeaane Ives.” It’s really pretty sick. In a distinctively Illinois way.
I’m sure Madigan and the rest of her democrat backers are praying for one.
What’s next? California?
[I’m sure Madigan and the rest of her democrat backers]
“Column: Election-year politics getting in your hair? Some answers to straighten things out” - John Kass
How do you know we’re getting close to the March 20 Illinois primaries? You know because of all the politics in your hair.
Candidates of both parties are constantly screaming at us on TV and social media, and now your hair is so past redemption that you probably want to shave it all off and go full Mr. Clean. Don’t. Just use this column to comb out your hair and it will be just fine.
Is Republican state Rep. Jeanne Ives really a creature of Democratic boss Mike Madigan? Gov. Bruce Rauner says so on his commercials. So it must be true, right? No.
A friend in Washington saw the Rauner ad against Ives and texted me, “So she’s a Madigan candidate?” No, I told him. Absolutely not.
But when you have millions and millions to spend, like Rauner, you can say almost anything if you pay for it, and if media don’t call you out on it.
Ives, the conservative Republican from Wheaton who is challenging Rauner in the Republican primary for governor, is no Madigan toady. Or ally. Or minion.
The governor twisted her words from a debate the two had before the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board. I was there. She crushed him in that one.
Yet now Rauner is using that commercial to make it seem as if she were defending Madigan. It was Rauner who used Madigan as a shield in that Tribune debate, constantly bringing up Madigan almost every time he was asked a question he didn’t like. And Ives mocked him for it, saying, “There he goes, attacking Madigan again,” and so on. Rauner took her mockery and twisted it. They were her words. But he twisted them. And I don’t see him being called out on it.
The reason she’s in the race is simple. Rauner broke faith with his own Republican Party by signing two controversial pieces of legislation: House Bill 40, allowing for taxpayer-funded abortions, and a “sanctuary state” bill to protect immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.
Illinois politicians for generations have operated with the belief that Illinois voters are stupid people who’ll believe anything they’re told. It’s the reason why Boss Madigan — speaker of the Illinois House and chairman of the Illinois Democratic Party — has been running things for decades.
Is J.B. Pritzker becoming a budding theologian as he chases the Democratic nomination for governor? With a reported 25 percent or more of the Democratic vote still undecided, and with African-American votes key to the Democratic Party primaries, Pritzker has been busy. He’s been scurrying, “reaching out” to African-American ministers. He’s been “reaching out” (don’t you love that term?) ever since that FBI tape came out, the one in which he counseled now-imprisoned Gov. Rod Blagojevich about which African-American politician he should appoint to fill the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama.
Pritzker said Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White would “cover you on the African-American thing,” and that White would be the “least offensive.” J.B. has since publicly apologized.
My sources keep telling me of meetings J.B. is having with ministers. Not in public, but in private. I’m sure they’re merely discussing theology. But does J.B. fill the collection plate, or is he all about the hugs? Does the #MeToo movement really want to go after Boss Madigan?
Madigan has been harshly criticized for his indifferent handling of sexual harassment allegations against his Democratic political aides and allies. And many of those who keep calling for a truly “independent” investigation somehow keep forgetting that job should be done by the Illinois attorney general. But she happens to be his daughter, Lisa.
So where’s the #MeToo movement? They’re nowhere near Madigan and his boys. If Madigan were a Republican, I have no doubt they’d be protesting, holding marches and speeches. And not just women, but we’d see men in those fuzzy pink hats they wear when virtue signaling before news cameras against Republicans. But when it comes to Democrats? Crickets.It’s almost as if the #MeToo is all about partisan politics.
What do Cook County Clerk Dorothy Brown and Joe Berrios have in common? The Cook County Circuit Court clerk’s office was in the news when an employee told the feds that “the going rate” for a job with Brown was $10,000 paid to her bagman. Simmer down, it’s just an allegation to the FBI, not a conviction. Yet.
I bet you’re shocked. I bet you could never imagine something like this in Cook County. Cook County Assessor Berrios, who is also the Cook County Democratic Party chairman, went to court last week on a different matter. His lawyers asked that property tax reduction attorneys be allowed to continue contributing big bucks to his campaign.
They work on cases before him. They contribute to his campaign. Nothing to see here, move along, this is Cook County.
Brown and Berrios are both machine Democrats. And this is what happens with one-party rule, decade after decade.
What’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s $8.5 billion airport expansion deal really all about?
If you think this is just about airport improvements, a few more gates and happy passengers, you’re a moron.
This is about $8.5 billion of contracts. Emanuel is moving into re-election mode. And this move is a big one. It would give Emanuel 8.5 billion ways to ask the guys who pour concrete and asphalt one simple question: “Who loves you, baby?”
Column: Ives crushes Rauner in Tribune governor debate
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-rauner-ives-kass-0130-story.html
Those who watched the Chicago Tribune debate between RAUNER and IVES immediately knew the snippets in the RAUNER ad was from the debate. He twisted her words.
BRUCE RAUNER is an evil man.
Watch the debate. See for yourself.
It truly is a constitutional crisis . You are so right,republican leaders are frozen in fear as time time democrats steal elections. It must be stopped!!
“Wow Illinois might become a blue state”
You are either kidding or have no clue.
Republican leaders are collaborating with Democrats. They are not “frozen in fear”, but are just as much of left-wing ideologues. It’s been going on since before I was born, or even my parents were born.
My sarcasm detector went off when I read that an hour ago.
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