Posted on 10/31/2012 7:48:35 PM PDT by PBRCat
[T]hings happened the other day on the West Side that made me laugh.
Lance Tyson, candidate for 10th District state representative, told me earnestly that his race has been called “a fight for the soul of the Illinois Democratic Party.”
The soul of the Democratic Party?
Would that be, I asked incredulously, the same Democratic Party whose leaders — including Dick Durbin, Barack Obama and Mike Madigan — endorsed Rod Blagojevich for re-election in 2006 even though everybody knew the feds were already crawling all over him?
Seems to me the party’s “soul” has been in jeopardy of being lost for some time now.
[T]he guy he’s running against, Derrick Smith, previously endorsed and installed by the bosses of the Democratic Party, managed to get himself indicted right after being appointed in March 2011. And so the bosses of the party, including the all-powerful speaker of the House, Mike Madigan, ejected him from the House this summer.
But Smith is still on the ballot.
And still listed as a Democrat.
It has forced Tyson to run under a separate Unity Party label. Something that will make it very hard for him to win, given that Democrats in this district tend to vote straight tickets, especially with Barack Obama on the top of that ticket.
Derrick Smith is working hard to avoid certain members of the media. I couldn’t get him to respond to an interview request.
Fortunately, there are plenty of eyes on the West Side, and a text popped up on my phone reading, “Derrick is at Wallace’s Catfish Corner! California and Madison!”
Sure enough, there was the indicted former state rep in the parking lot of the restaurant owned by former Ald. Wallace Davis, who was federally indicted and convicted years ago. The restaurant is Smith’s informal headquarters.
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Oxymoron
What’s left of it needs an exorcism.
Best Reply Award.
Ohh...I had a feeling someone was going to make a reference to this movie/story before I did! :-0
I’m glad you did; I was thinking of this movie a lot when I read the article! I loved it; also, the story this movie was based on, was written by a man who was a solid, passionate, anti-Communist (Stephen St. Vincent Benet (sp?))! I read about him in “Wikipedia”, awhile back. The actor who played Daniel Webster did a beautiful speech in front of the “Jury of the Damned”, didn’t he?
Where is the soul of the Thief Party? I think I’ve answered that question.
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