[Impy]

I envy you, Madigan will die in office.

[BillyBoy]

On the plus side, I think Madigan has real opponents in both the primary and general election for the first time in over a decade. Of course, neither will win, but at least he has to spend money unlike past elections where his "Republican" opponent was some RAT combiner pal in the district whose job was to lay low and ensure Mikey didn't have a spend a cent.

You won't believe the campaign literature Madigan is putting out for his re-election this year:

[fieldmarshaldj]

One thing I will say in Naifeh’s favor is that Republicans could learn a few lessons on sheer ruthlessness from the guy. He literally carried the testicles of the House GOP leaders for years in his pocket. His last act was pulling a Willie Brown and installing a creepy RINO puppet to ensure an additional 2 years of power for the Democrats (and himself). He’s only leaving now (after barely a year out of power as “Speaker Emeritus” AKA Puppetmaster) since his district was made Republican.

Sadly, had it not been for Watergate, he never would’ve won office at all. When he first ran in 1972, the district he lived in (Tipton County, which is now suburban Memphis) sent a Republican and probably would’ve continued to, but 1974 halted GOP strength almost everywhere and delayed the Southern realignment for more than 2 decades (and in TN’s case, for 36 years).