I prefer Brady or Oberweis, but after hearing Blago beat his chest over making us pay for [embryonic] stem cell research, hamstringing pharmacists, and being proudly more pro-abort than anybody, I would even put up with Gidwitz.
Unfortunately, Topinka would be the same, only with milder rhetoric.
I did a google on Oberweis and revisted the November 2001 US Senate Candidate Compares Pro-Life Politicians to Taliban fiasco.
I forsee a Brady landslide.
GIDWITZ OUTLINES HIS VIEWS
On abortion, for example, Gidwitz described himself as "pro-choice," but he favors requiring parental notification and consent when teens are involved.
On guns, he said he favors extending the expired federal ban on assault weapons but would like to see Chicago's ban on handguns lifted.
Gidwitz said he favors re-evaluating spending priorities over raising state taxes, but he declined to take an ironclad stance against increasing taxes. "We have a long way to go before I'd think about increasing state income or sales taxes," he said.
Gidwitz also said he opposes gay marriages but is not opposed to civil unions, and he said he favors the death penalty but is undecided about whether to lift a moratorium on executions.
Unfortunately, Gidwitz would be the same, only with milder rhetoric.
FROM http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-gidwitz25.html
We could use a Dem like Glenn Poshard again. But we won't get one!
Patience, patience. Keep your notes on Blago for 1/28 at Chicago. Tooooopinka would be worse. Like Gidwitz's consort, she actually believes in Blago's expressed principles which is likely more than Blago does. Admittedly, by Blago's performance, that is not easy to prove.
BTW, if you get a chance, tune in to Charlie Sykes 8:30 AM-Noon M-F WTMJ-AM radio in Milwaukee (also apparently streams on the internet) to hear the new ads being played by black groups and business groups against Governor Doyle on the voucher issue. "Decades ago, Governor George Wallace and Governor Orville Faubus stood in the school house door to keep black kids from getting the education they needed. Now, not in Alabama or Arkansas, but in Wisconsin, Governor Doyle is standing in today's schoolhouse door....." As you know, I am not a fan of vouchers because they bring unacceptable strings but these ads are pure gold.
AND, does Blago frequent the Chicago fag/ lesbian/ cross dressing/ transgendered/ transsexual/ threesome through infinitysome/ interspecies (did I forget anything???) parade???? Re-Read Mike Royko's marvelous biography of Daley the Elder and try to imagine Daley the Elder putting up with the sort of parade that ToooooPinka just adores!!!!
I wonder if the next parade could be a hardhat moment???