Posted on 12/29/2010 7:59:04 AM PST by Windy City Conservative
Though Mr. Kirk and other Republicans thundered against pork-barrel spending and lawmakers’ practice of designating money for special projects through earmarks, they have not shied from using a less-well-known process called lettermarking to try to direct money to projects in their home districts.
Mr. Kirk, for example, sent a letter to the Department of Education dated Sept. 10, 2009, asking it to release money “needed to support students and educational programs” in a local school district. The letter was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the group Citizens Against Government Waste, which shared it with The New York Times.
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| Senate Republican Voting Yea in Lame Duck Session | ||||
| Bill | S.510 FDA Food | DADT Repeal | START Treaty | HR3082 Budget |
| Alexander (R-TN) | Yea | Yea | Yea | |
| Barrasso (R-WY) | Yea | |||
| Bennett (R-UT) | Yea | Yea | ||
| Brown (R-MA) | Yea | Yea | Yea | Yea |
| Bunning (R-KY) | Yea | |||
| Burr (R-NC) | Yea | Yea | ||
| Cochran (R-MS) | Yea | Yea | ||
| Collins (R-ME) | Yea | Yea | Yea | Yea |
| Corker (R-TN) | Yea | Yea | ||
| Ensign (R-NV) | Yea | Yea | ||
| Enzi (R-WY) | Yea | Yea | ||
| Grassley (R-IA) | Yea | Yea | ||
| Gregg (R-NH) | Yea | Yea | ||
| Hutchison (R-TX) | Yea | |||
| Isakson (R-GA) | Yea | |||
| Johanns (R-NE) | Yea | Yea | Yea | |
| Kirk (R-IL) | Yea | Yea | Yea | |
| Kyl (R-AZ) | Yea | |||
| LeMieux (R-FL) | Yea | |||
| Lugar (R-IN) | Yea | Yea | Yea | |
| McConnell (R-KY) | Yea | |||
| Murkowski (R-AK) | Yea | Yea | Yea | Yea |
| Roberts (R-KS) | Yea | |||
| Sessions (R-AL) | Yea | |||
| Shelby (R-AL) | Yea | |||
| Snowe (R-ME) | Yea | Yea | Yea | Yea |
| Thune (R-SD) | Yea | |||
| Vitter (R-LA) | Yea | |||
| Voinovich (R-OH) | Yea | Yea | Yea | Yea |
| Not Voting | ||||
| Bond (R-MO) | Not voting | Not voting | Not voting | |
| Brownback (R-KS) | Not voting | Not voting | Not voting | |
| Bunning (R-KY) | Not voting | Not voting | ||
| Gregg (R-NH) | Not voting | Not voting | ||
| Hatch (R-UT) | Not voting | |||
All Republicans better wake up to the fact that We The People are watching them just as much as we’re watching all the RATs. 2012 we’ll be voting out/cleaning more RINOs and all RATs.
“lettermarking”
A thorn by any other name is still a prick.
Excellent matrix on their voting as of late. Thanks for posting.
Simple solution, End the EDU. Each State should be responsible for the Education within their borders. The EDU is a function of the Teachers Unions. Mr Kirk would not feel the need to “beg” for taxpayer money to be returned to his State. I find the practice by the Federal Bureacracy of turning elected Reps into little more than beggers at the door unseemly.
Attacking Kirk does not solve the PROBLEM.
Feeding the beast by sending taxpayer money to fund the EDU is the problem.
Ending the EDU (among others) will end the begger status of the Elected Reps. Education should be left to State and local jurisdiction.
Ping.
FYI bttt
June 1, 2010
Mark Kirk outed by filmmaker Mike Rogers just as we told you this would happen. Waiting for response from Fran Eaton and Illinois Review.
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Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Alexi Giannoulias, Mark Kirk, Illinois GOP, Fran Eaton, Illinois Review |
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If this is a shock to any of you, then you are clearly blind.
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Come out Aaron Schock, it’s Pride Month...don’t let the Democrats do to you in the future what they are doing to Kirk’s Senate campaign!
Here’s Mike Rogers’ outing of Mark Kirk that we told you was coming back in 2009. http://blog.blogactive.com/2010/06/truth-or-consequences.html
Here’s what we warned Republicans was going to happen to Mark Kirk’s Senate campaign, if they made Kirk the nominee:
(1) Giannoulias would get exposed for his Broadway Bank mob connections
(2) The only thing that would save Giannoulias would be outing Mark Kirk and exposing him as a liar and hypocrite, and producing a Jack Ryan-grade scandal against him
(3) Giannoulias would be elected Senator because Illinois voters are more likely to elect a corrupt, mobbed up Democrat than a lying Republican who’s been outed in a scandal
This is what’s happening.
Now, we ran this piece, “What Chicago Democrats Are Planning To Do To Out Republicans Mark Kirk and Aaron Schock” on December 18th, 2009.
Please go back and read this. http://hillbuzz.org/2009/12/18/what-chicago-democrats-are-planning-to-do-to-out-republicans-mark-kirk-and-aaron-schock/
This is exactly what we said was going to happen first to Kirk…and then to Schock in about 5-10 years, once Democrats have blackmailed Schock enough, as they have done to Kirk for 10 years, and Schock finally does something to cross the Dem machine. At that point, Schock, too, will be taken out by someone like Mike Rogers and destroyed for being a hypocrite.
We. Tried. To. Warn. The. GOP. This. Was. Coming.
Instead of listening to us, here’s what happened.
Fran Eaton at Illinois Review knows some of us personally, because Eaton was like a fly at a picnic during the McCain 2008 campaign. She never did anything productive, but came to anything that had a buffet or free drinks, and buzzed around the room pretending she was an actual journalist. In reality, Illinois Review gets about 1/3 of the hits HillBuzz does, and we’re rank amateurs screwing around on the Internets here in Boystown. We have never claimed to be journalists and since Obama became the Democrat nominee in 2008, we have worked our hearts out to try to help Republicans take back the government so we can together save this country. This effort has come at great personal cost to us in our every day personal lives, and to mitigate the damage the Left could do to us, we deliberately maintained HillBuzz on an anonymous basis to protect our personal identities and livelihoods because, as one of us found out, it’s impossible to earn a living in Chicago if the Left targets you and makes you unemployable.
Fran Eaton knew the identity of one of us, because Fran Eaton knew K. socially from McCain events.
Fran Eaton was a Facebook “friend” of K.’s and had access to his photos on Facebook, as is the nature of Facebook.
After we ran the December 18th piece warning Republicans what Democrats were planning to do to Mark Kirk to save the Giannoulias campaign when it floundered, Fran Eaton used an article on Illinois Review to out K. as part of HillBuzz…knowing full well this would be the very first time any of our personal names were ever attached to our political writing.
Fran Eaton knew about everything Obama supporters had done to us personally during the 2008 primaries for supporting Hillary Clinton over Obama in Chicago, and she knew about the grief all of us took for being Democrats for McCain in the General Election. K. can recount at least three occasions when he talked to Fran Eaton about the specific reasons we maintained anonymity on HillBuzz, as opposed to what Fran Eaton does at Illinois Review, whereby she emblazons the place with her name to make herself appear important (as opposed to just being a woman who will attend the opening of an envelop if there’s even a vague promise of a Snickers bar…as we internally refer to her).
Fran Eaton deliberately and maliciously outed K. as a HillBuzz writer because she wanted to get his name out there so that the Left would have a target to attack.
Fran Eaton did this because she wanted Mark Kirk to be the Republican nominee, even though Fran Eaton knew Kirk is gay. It is an open secret here in Illinois. Yet, Fran Eaton wrote in her hit piece that K. and HillBuzz “started rumors” about Kirk. Honey, if we “started rumors” about Kirk we’d have needed more than a Mac and a blog to do that…we’d have needed a damn time machine because when the lot of us moved here between 2004-2005 or so, one of the first things we heard in Boystown was about the gay Congressman named Mark Kirk. It wasn’t until 2008, actually, that we even knew who Mark Kirk was…apart from being “the gay Republican Congressman guys talked about”. None of us ever saw a picture of Kirk until 2009, actually, and when we did we were stunned anyone could NOT KNOW he was gay…since the man has the most obvious case of Gay-Face since Liberace.
Fran Eaton knew full well we didn’t start any “rumors” about Kirk, but she wrote the article with one purpose: to out K. so that the Left would have his name and those people on the Left who hate HillBuzz could now have one of us to train their attacks on.
And, here’s what happened because of the actions of Fran Eaton at Illinois Review.
As we at HillBuzz supported Scott Brown’s campaign in Massachusetts to take back “the Kennedy seat” for the people of the Bay State, the Left ratcheted up its attacks against us because we dared to work towards seeing Republicans capture the ultimate Democrat prize. To the Cult of Liberalism, this was one of the greatest insults they could imagine, and they were furious. FURIOUS. After Scott Brown won, the Left was so enraged it wanted to lash out emotionally and hurt those it felt were responsible…and so Daily Kos and Democratic Underground looked for a victim.
They found Fran Eaton’s article identifying K. as one of us here at HillBuzz…the only one of us identifiable and attackable.
Because of Fran Eaton’s actions, K. came under direct and nonstop fire from the Left, and has been assaulted every day since.
The Left calls him a RAAACIST for not supporting this current president’s reckless agenda. The Left threatens his employability and personal safety. The Left maligns him, degrades him, and assails him every day.
All because of Fran Eaton at Illinois Review.
Now that things are going down with the Mark Kirk campaign the way we told you BACK IN DECEMBER OF 2009 and all of this is transpiring more or less as we predicted, we ask all of you who are regular readers, everyone who cares about us, everyone who has watched us evolve from partisan Democrats into the guys who every day put it on the line to do what we can to help this country, TO HOLD FRAN EATON ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT SHE DID.
Fran Eaton and Illinois Review, as well as the GOP in Illinois, cannot be allowed to pretend they did not know about Mark Kirk, and were not warned his Senate campaign would collapse after being brought down by the Left.
We gave them all the Giannoulias playbook against Kirk. We also gave you the playbook that’s going to be run against Schrock, so in a few years, when that’s used, we’re going to say TOLD YOU SO again.
Fran Eaton deliberately put a private citizen out there to be destroyed by the Left, when she knew the articles we wrote about the Kirk campaign were true.
How do Illinois Review readers feel about that?
How can the GOP in Illinois pretend it never saw this coming…WHEN WE TOLD THEM IT WAS COMING, and it was noticed enough to warrant a direct attack on us by Fran Eaton and Illinois Review?
As this drama with Kirk unfolds, we do not intend to let this go until Fran Eaton faces consequences for her actions. Now that we’ve been proven right, we want to hear the explanation for what she did, when she knew we were right the whole damn time.
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May 31, 2010
More on the Giannoulias-Kirk race in Illinois
Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Alexi Giannoulias, Fran Eaton, Illinois Review, Mark Kirk |
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Here’s an interesting read in the Sun-Times today.
In it, the loathsome Jan Schakowsky is depicted as careening around Washington in her car, like Cruella de Vil, haranguing a reporter for daring, in Chicago, to talk about what a vile candidate Alexi Giannoulias is for the Senate. Schakowsky also doesn’t like people talking about the fact that against anyone else, Giannoulias would surely lose this race Mark Kirk is a fatally flawed candidate that gives Schakowsky hope that “The G”, as he calls himself, can still turn things around and win this race by raising and dumping large sums of money into TV ad buys this summer.
Here’s what we think is really, really interesting in the article: look for the part where Schakowsky brings up gay marriage.
We’ve been wondering why “The G” has been doing so many Equality Illinois events in Chicago lately…the more bad press that was in the news about Broadway Bank (the mob bank, which the Giannoulias Family ran), the more Alexi would find a reason to stand on stage with Equality Illinois head honchos like Art Johnson and others. To us, it’s clear Giannoulias is using these people, for these photo ops, which is a shame because in many ways Johnson especially is to Boystown what Harvey Milk was to the Castro. He’s worked hard for LGBTQ causes his whole life, so to see Giannoulias use him so shamelessly is just a hard sight to take in.
But, we wonder, what’s Giannoulias really up to? He’s never shown a passion for LGBTQ causes before. Democrats have a lock on the LGBTQ vote, so there’s really no reason to even campaign on this issue. He’s not doing these events as fundraisers…so why is he doing them?
It sure feels like it fits into the theory we had back in 2009 that Giannoulias’ plan all along for winning the Senate seat was to take Mark Kirk down as a hypocrite for not supporting spousal equality and the repeal of DADT when Kirk himself is gay.
Giannolias is a lot of things, but stupid he’s not. He knows full well he’s a rotten candidate. His family was the mob’s bankers. He’s deeply connected to all the political crooks this state has to offer. The only way he wins is by taking down Kirk as a liar and hypocrite and ending his campaign with a big scandal…in much the way Obama took down Jack Ryan back in 2004.
We told you this was going to happen months ago, long before the GOP in Illinois insisted on making Mark “it’s his turn” Kirk the nominee. Illinois Review, a little-read fanfiction site run by Fran Eaton, attacked us for warning Republicans about what Giannoulias would do to Kirk. It’s all going down the way we told you it would because at various Democrat events we went to in 2009, this exact plan was spelled out for us.
1. Giannoulias will be the nominee
2. Giannoulias can never overcome being the mob’s banker
3. Democrats will do everything possible to make Mark Kirk the Republican nominee because he is fatally flawed
4. The media will give Kirk a “McCain treatment”, where they oooo and aaaaah over him, call him “a maverick”, and pump him up…so they can tear him down when they need to
5. Kirk will be forced to go against something the LGBTQ community wants because he is running as a Republican, so he will have to side against spousal equality and the DADT repeal
6. The above will break the pact Kirk-the media-LGBTQ activists have, whereby Kirk does not side against the LGBTQ community and instead does whatever it wants because he is being blackmailed
7. Kirk will be outed in a spectacular way
8. Republicans will abandon Kirk not because he is gay, oddly enough, but because he is a liar and a hypocrite
We told you this was coming, and apparently in the next few days Mike Rogers, from the documentary OUTRAGE, is going to out Kirk.
Do not think for a moment that Rogers is going rogue in doing this. He very much has the approval of the DNC and the LGBTQ community at large. In our opinion, being the one to out Kirk is Rogers’ prize for putting together the excellent OUTRAGE documentary, which centered mostly on how ridiculous Governor Charlie Crist’s heterosexual kabuki is.
If Rogers is moving on this, it’s because the Giannoulias campaign decided now is when they wanted to pull the switch.
Rogers primed the pump last week, saying he would reveal what he knows after Memorial Day…so it’s been that tantalizing morsel all weekend. Most likely, it was to also see what Kirk himself would do, and what Republicans in Illinois would start to do as well (ie, will they start to dump Kirk like they did Ryan, and call in Alan Keyes again).
Because Giannoulias wants as big of a punch as possible from this, revealing it during Memorial Day Weekend would be ridiculous, as most people are more concerned with picnics and out of town travel and fun through tomorrow.
But, Tuesday or Wednesday of this week would be a great time for something like this to drop against Kirk…since people who avoided the news during the long holiday will try to catchup with gusto…and then, BAM, here’s this takedown of Kirk.
Just as we said it would happen.
But, instead of preparing for this inevitability and getting Kirk to drop out of the primary so a winnable candidate could have had the nomination, the GOP in Illinois and Fran Eaton at Illinois Review deliberately sunk their heads into the sand and pretended this was not true about Kirk.
We’ve been at events with Eaton, waiting in foyers for doors to open, and have actually talked to her about Kirk. SHE’S ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO TOLD US HE’S GAY.
We’ve heard this consistently since we all moved to Chicago between 2004-2005, but people like Eaton affirmed this from the GOP side between 2008-2010, as we started working with Republicans because of the McCain campaign. Everything we had ever heard about Kirk in Boystown was confirmed by Republicans who came into our lives in the 2008 election and beyond.
So, Eaton and Illinois Review have a lot of explaining to do when Rogers makes whatever announcement he makes.
Readers of Illinois Review should know they are being lied to by Fran Eaton, because if she claims she’s “Shocked, shocked, shocked!” by whatever Rogers says, we still have our pocket notes from the Michael Steele dinner at the Union League Club…and we still remember exactly what Fran Eaton was wearing that day…when she stood in the foyer with us and talked an awful lot about Mark Kirk…before she schizophrenically changed her tune and decided to attack us for speaking out on something everyone else was talking about anyway.
And that would be the simple fact that Kirk’s candidacy was doomed from Day One not because he is gay, but because he is a liar and a hypocrite who has been blackmailed by the LGBTQ community for years…which explains his voting record, and the odd votes he cast against his constituents’ wishes whenever his blackmailers pulled his strings. It was unavoidable that in the Senate race, however, in trying to keep the downstate vote, that Kirk would have to either choose alienating conservatives or upsetting his blackmailers. He chose the latter, and the end result will be whatever Mike Rogers sets into motion against him.
This is why Aaron Schock and other gay Republicans in office just need to come out already.
Seize what’s going to happen to Kirk as the opportunity for you ALL to come out, all at once. Every last one of you.
If you can, get some conservative gay celebrities to come out too…which would be a double whammy, because they’d be coming out as CONSERVATIVES as well as being gay.
That’s our best advice for mitigating what’s to come for Kirk the only way he can ride this storm out is if Aaron Schock steps up to the plate and helps diffuse the issue. There’s a third gay Republican male member of the Illinois Congressional delegation that could come out as well. The more people who do this, all on the same day, the less focus will be on Kirk and his lies and hypocrisy.
As for us, Illinois Review created a very personal stake in this that we can’t ignore. Fran Eaton broke a personal and professional confidence by not only outing one of our personal names on this site which was deliberately anonymous because we did not want to be attacked by the Left in our personal lives but she used the fact that we were Facebook friends, on a personal level, not professional, to steal pictures from our personal Facebook accounts to use in her pieces on Illinois Review. She knew why we wrote anonymously until she outed us, because we’d had the conversation with her. But, she chose to use the fact that we spoke out on what was going to happen to Kirk’s campaign as an excuse to maliciously reveal one of our names to the public…so that the Left could do whatever the Left was going to do to destroy us.
There should be consequences for Fran Eaton and Illinois Review when Mike Rogers outs Kirk and the whole Giannoulias plan unfolds the way we told you it would.
We have no idea if Eaton can legally be held liable for all the damages the Left has caused us because of her outing, but we’d love to pursue that. All we’ve been waiting for is Giannoulias to kick the plan into gear to prove us right.
So, if you read Illinois Review, all 12 of you, you might want to ask Eaton what she has to say about Mike Rogers and what she knew, and when she knew it, about Mark Kirk.
Exactly the point. Get rid of EDU!
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