Thanks for all you do Maggie.
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FROM:
http://www.pr-inside.com/andy-martin-illinois-republicans-are-r963563.htm
BILL KURTIS: MEET THE CURRENT LEADERSHIP OF THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN (DEMOCRAT SUBSIDIARY) PARTY
REPUBLICANS ARE JUST AS CORRUPT AS DEMOCRATS IN ILLINOIS, AND MORE SECRETIVE, SAYS ANDY MARTIN
THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY IS A WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF THE
DALEY MACHINE AND IS CONTROLLED BY THE MCKENNA FAMILY, PART OF THE BIPARTISAN ‘COMBINE’ OF CORRUPTION IN STATE POLITICS
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Who is this tiny mandarin McKenna? Well, McKenna’s father is a billionaire businessman who, along with his clique and claque, helps finance the Daley Machine. The McKennas can’t get their numbers straight, so it is not clear who is McKenna ‘Junior,’ ‘III,’ and IV. But they are all crooks beholden to King Richard Daley II for the patronage and privilege of doing business with his Machine. How independent can you be when Richard Daley sets the table for dinner?
Illinois Democrats elect a ‘state central committee.’ Each congressional district gets to vote at the general primary election for the state committee representative. For Republicans, however, such direct democracy is a dirty word. In order for the Daley Machine to control the Republican Party, Republican voters are not allowed to vote for state committee members. There is a complicated, indirect process-always rigged-by which McKenna stooges get to select the Republican Party leadership in Illinois. McKenna is the little man on the wedding cake who ‘leads’ this assemblage of hacks and incompetents.
The current Andy McKenna surfaced in 2004, when Democrats were concerned about losing a U. S. Senate election. Democrats put up McKenna as the Daley Machine candidate to run in the Republican primary. McKenna promptly hired one of the Daley Machine’s sleaziest and most corrupt lawyers as his legal adviser, Andrew Raucci.
Since the indictment of Governor Rod Blagojevich, the ‘national media’ (whatever they are) have been speculating that Illinois Republicans may have a chance to recapture the U. S. Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama. Fat chance. Sadly, if you are hoping for Illinois Republicans to lead the fight for reform in Illinois, dream on. McKenna will do everything he can to sabotage the senate selection process or any efforts at reform in either the Republican Party or state politics. McKenna’s minions do everything they can to select ‘losers’ who will lie down and die for their Democratic opponents. McKenna is a winner—at losing.
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Glad to help, even in a small way.
PTBOR,
Pinging you to this thread.
Just to keep those m=names inone place.
FROM:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-27-jan27,0,7080273.column
Interesting comment posted on Kass’ page ...
FROM: Insider
Chicago, IL
Comment #43
President Obama wants to give more due process and equal protection under the law to prisoners of war held at Gitmo, then to a sitting, twice-elected Governor from his home state.
What gives?
If you want to witness a cover-up, then step right up to the three-ring circus called Illinois Politics.
In the first ring, we have Obama, his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, his first assistant Valerie Jarrett, and his media guru David Axelrod.
They know that the conversations that Obama had with Blagojevich, along with Axelrod, Emanuel and Jarrett, are criminal. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, there was a quid pro quo.
The reason that Patrick “I want to be re-appointed” Fitzgerald stepped in and broke up the recorded conversation before they were ripe, is because he is trying to protect President “Hope/Change” Obama.
If Fitzgerald allowed the taping of the conversations to continue to their logical conclusion, Obama would be among the indicted right now.
That would not look good to the world expecting hope and change from the Land of Lincoln.
Obama will use all of his proxies to, as he likes to say, make sure, that the Governor is kept muzzled and unable to defend himself, because, his defense would doom them. Obama will have Fitzgerald finish Blagojevich off for him without the latter being able to utter a peep.
Imagine the testimony that Blago could give against the President Hope and Change.
In the second ring, we have Mayor Daley and Speaker Madigan, each with their own political agenda and an ax to grind. For different reasons, each wants Blagojevich dead, dead, dead, and now.
Blagojevich is a witness to all of their criminal wrong-doing and can testify against both. Therefore, Daley has gone around publicly calling Blagojevich “cooko”, while Silent Mike twists the knife in Blagojevich’s back looking for his heart.
Ah, the tales that Blago can tell about those two.
In the third ring, we have the members of the Illinois Combine, democrats like DeLeo, Harmon and Schoenberg, and, republicans like Cronin, Saviano, Dillard and Millner, who are wearing dipers nowdays, waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Blago could really tell the whole world about them and their dealings with him that violate all kinds of civil and criminal statutes. Talk about a conspiracy. Blago could bring the whole system down.
Ah, what a show that would be.
In the end, boys and girls, Blago will be left pennyless, his wife and kids will leave him, he will be out of office, disbarred and criminally convicted.
Washed up.
Just before his sentencing, Blago will cut a deal with Fitzgerald, and, in exchange for being put in a witness protection program, will tell all he knows, Jim Laski-like, and will bring down as many people as he can.
That is what psychopaths do.
What a show.
In the meantime, GOP Chair McKenna is busy testifying as a Mayor Daley character witness.