Posted on 01/26/2010 7:06:12 AM PST by Justaham
Former President of Poland and human rights activist Lech Walesa will campaign in Illinois with Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Andrzejewski. The American Spectator reported:
It’s not every day that a Nobel Prize winner becomes involved in a U.S. election, but Lech Walesa – famed for his Cold War leadership of the Solidarity movement in Poland — will be campaigning this week for a GOP gubernatorial candidate in Illinois.
The former Polish president will be the keynote speaker Friday at a Chicago luncheon fundraiser for Adam Andrzejewski, one of five Republican candidates for governor in Illinois.
“I applaud Mr. Andrzejewski’s commendable effort to bring real reform to politics,” Walesa wrote in a letter endorsing the 40-year-old businessman. “His insistence on transparency in public life are badly needed not only in the great state of Illinois, but in any democracy.”
Andrzejewski is seeking the seat previously held by impeached Democrat Rod Blagojevich and currently held by Pat Quinn. He is backed by many Tea Party activists and has never previously held elective office — a point in his favor, according to Walesa.
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“It’s not every day that a Nobel Prize winner becomes involved in a U.S. election”
Obama / Coakley?
Interesting!
Now there’s a community organizer for real!
No kidding!
Hey - can we have him for our President?
Oh, wait a minute - Walesa isn’t a natural-born American citizen. Darn!
They probably meant a real prize winner, from when it meant something.
Not a bad move. IIRC, the “windy” has the single largest Polish population in the U.S., and immigrants and their children, make up approx. 30% of the total Illinois population.
Walesa is still respected and admired among Americans and, especially, the Poles.
BTW, Walesa earned his Nobel. How many of us, quite a few I’d wager, remember the protests he led in Gdansk, and his in your face shout downs?
We can get around that if he runs on the Democrat ticket. He was a labor organizer after all.
I still think that's funny. A labor organizer helped take down communism, which is supposed to be for the laborers in the first place.
“Hey - can we have him for our President?
Oh, wait a minute - Walesa isn’t a natural-born American citizen. Darn!”
True, but he still the only Foreign non US citizen to speak before our Congress. Oh, wait! LOL
But, seriously, his core values are Anti Abortion, personal freedom, free markets, open Government, and so on.
I admire Lech very much but, he is a citizen of another country and a former leader of said country.
I don’t want any foreign entanglements in our politics and there must be some corollary law on par with the Logan Act, which prohibit such involvement.
Anyone?
“True, but he still the only Foreign non US citizen to speak before our Congress.”
So you do New York Times Crosswords too?
Meaning what?
That was a clue and Walesa was the answer to a recent NYT crossword. Sorry if I assumed too much.
I hate the Times, but the crosswords are great.
I was stumped. LOL
I lived in Brooklyn for 2 years, but the only time I would touch the Times, is when I wanted to see the display ads.
I just hope Andrzejewski turns out better than Dan Rostenkowski.
Rostenkowski was a Dem. product of the Cook County Political Machine. We shouldn’t have to worry about that with Andy.
While I have tremendous respect for this man, I really have a problem with a nonAmerican being involved in a US election.
This is very confusing. When I was living in Poland, Walesa was seen as a leftist who was only slightly less of a lefty than the Communists. That’s why they tolerated him - he was a big-time Socialist who just wanted a little more competition between the extreme left and slightly-less-extreme left.
His nickname in Polish is “Srobokret” - Screwdriver. Because he was seen as a complete screwup.
If anyone, I would have expected him to campaign on behalf of Zero. Zero’s fiscal policies are very reminiscent of Walesa’s while he was President.
In fact, I see many similarities between Zero and Walesa - when elected they were both seen (by their supporters) as national saviors, but the glow soon wore off and their base abandoned them in short order.
Did Walesa suddenly get all free-markety or something while no one was looking?
Can Andrzejewski Make Illinois Gov. a Real Race? The next Scott Bown? http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35386
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