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Posted on 01/31/2010 3:02:39 PM PST by American Dream 246
Illinois Gubernatorial Candidate Adam Andrzejewski rallied supporters in O’Fallon, Illinois this afternoon. It was a standing room only crowd.
While campaigning in O’Fallon the Andrzejewski team announced that Adam had just received the endorsement of the largest Chicago Polish paper today. And…. It was announced that Adam had surged to within two points in an internal poll conducted by a conservative organization in Washington DC. Andrzejewski was 8 points down earlier in the week in the Illinois race.
It may have been the endorsement by Lech Walesa that helped Andrzejewski surge in the latest polling. And this is despite the fact that the mainstream Chicago news mostly ignored Walesa’s historic endorsement.
Thanks for the info. This is definitely one to watch.
Cool. I’m keeping an eye on how this progresses.
I wish he were running against Mark Kirk instead.
Thank You!!
If I can keep the Folks on FR laughing as we take OUR NATION back from the usurpers, then I feel I am doing a good thing!
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In the Mass election, I was saying that a threatened Dem loss would be like a Zombie Apocalypse, with legions of the undead swarming the polls. I think the Dems did try to cheat in Mass, and were shocked then it wasn't enough.
A loss in Illinois would generate mass hysteria
I have changed to Adam!
Yay! W00t!
“Polls show it a 6-way statistical tie between 5 candidates and Mr Undecided, virtually everyone at 16%. If that is true, the candidate with the ground troops to get their voters to the polls wins.”
I think you’re correct. They are all in it because of the huge undecided vote. I’ll be voting for Proft, based on what I saw at the live debate and heard on the televised and radio debates. If he doesn’t win, I hope he runs for office again.
Voting for him tomorrow. We need him to shock the media and upper class twits.
In Illinois, the Lt. Gov has less real power than the Chairman of the State Fair Advisory Board.
The Lt. Gov. was post was stripped of all remaining constitutional authority in the new 1970 constitution and now he can't even preside over the state senate in a ceremonial role, let alone cast a tie-breaking vote like a Vice President does. The SOLE authority delegated to him under the constitution is that he becomes Governor if the incumbent Governor dies, resigns, is impeached & removed (ala Blago), etc.
The Lt. Gov post has been granted some window dressing my statute of the state legislature (chairing the Illinois River Preservation Board, etc.), but those can be taken away at any time and often they're customized to fit the current office holder. For example, Lt. Gov. Corrine Wood was put in charge of promoting woman's breast cancer awareness in Illinois or something silly like that.
Now I don't agree with abolishing the Lt. Governor post ... New Jersey's fisacos where they had three "Acting Governors" in a week is proof why you need someone in place ready to take over immediately in a crisis. But Illinois really needs to reform the Lt. Governor post to justify it being a separate, statewide elected post with a huge salary and staff. One of our Lt. Governors' in recent years was so bored with the job he resigned to accept a radio talk show slot.
That's why I feel it's important to elect a Lt. Governor with the drive to do something with the job and push to make the position into a worthy office.
1970, that was back during the last time the Governor and Lt Governor were elected on separate tickets, and was the last time (1969-73) when they were from two different parties. The father of the IL income tax, the RINO Dick Ogilvie, was in office then, harboring his Presidential ambitions, and the Lt Governor was the liberal Daleyite Democrat from Downstate, Paul Simon, who was biding his time until ‘72 when he could face Ogilvie (not to be when Simon was beaten by the Reformist anti-Daley liberal Dan Walker, who cleaned Ogilvie’s clock solely on the anti-income tax anger alone).
Since the position became powerless with Simon, there have been (excluding Quinn) two Lt Governors to step down early, both after having lost Senate races. Jim Thompson’s Lieutenant, Dave O’Neal, in 1981 after he lost the open seat to Democrat Alan Dixon, and Jim Edgar’s Lieutenant, Bob Kustra, after his shocking primary upset to Al Salvi, although he did linger awhile before doing that.
I agree, they need to give the Lt Gov post some teeth, perhaps have them preside over the Senate. Just something, since to quote Cactus Jack Garner about the Vice-Presidency, unless the big guy is run out of office or dies, it ain’t worth a bucket of warm $hit.
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