Filing deadline was today (or yesterday since it’s past midnight)
The Republican running is Christopher E.K. Pfannkuche, now there’s a surname for you! He’s a career prosecutor who’s worked for Cook and Macon counties, 31 years in the Cook SA office.
http://www.christopherforcook.com/
I may as well run down filing for Congress and other offices
The 2016 special election for Comptroller that I wish wasn’t happening is between appointed incumbent Leslie Munger (R) and Chicago City Clerk Susan Mendoza (D) (citywide officeholder seeking statewide office).
For the Senate Kirk has 2 primary challengers, serious candidate although unknown political non-entity James Marter http://www.marter4senate.us/
And one Elizabeth Diane Pahlke, some chick by that name was arrested in Cali for stalking actor (and Evanston native) John Cusack. I’m assuming it’s not the same woman but I can’t rule it out from their pictures, both are blonde. This one has a bizarre website
http://www.elizabethdianepahlkeussenate.com/about.html
It’s like an incomplete template of some businesses firm that is not a Senate campaign.
She also has a little used twitter account under Liz Pahlke that consists mostly or entirely of retweets. She ran as an “I” in the Jesse Jackass Jr. special election back in ‘13.
3 rats are running, Tammy “Look at me I lost limbs in Iraq” Suckworthless is likely to be the nominee, Andrea Zopp and Napoleon Harris are spitting the Black vote.
CD 1 Bobby Rush has 3 primary challengers, including Alderman Howard Brookins. 2 “Republicans” are running including Jimmie Tillman, ugh.
CD 2 Has a Republican running
CD 3 which will be contestable when Lipinski retires has a well known Neo-Nazi activist running as an R, the only one. SIGH
CD 4, My seat, no Republican. Hopefully one can be slated afterwards. Guit has a serious primary challenger for the first time in ever, Javier Salas says he hasn’t done enough for illegals (lolololol) and is a race traitor for backing Rahm over Chuy Garcia.
CD 5, No R, Three Greens for the 30 or so people who’ll choose to vote in the Green Primary to choose from. ‘|’
CD 6, Pete Roskam (R) has minor opposition in the primary and general
CD 7, No R
C8, Suckworth’s open seat, DuPage County Board Member Pete DiCianni is the most prominent GOP candidate. Rat State Sen, Mike Noland is among 3 rats running. I’d call Noland the favorite.
CD 9, 3 Rs running, Ad writer Joan McCarthy Lasonde, Paulbot David Williams III and last time’s nominee, Susanne Atanus, who says gays are to blame for tornados, I endorsed your write in bid over her, Phil. Go Joan, whoever you are.
CD 10, The rat chump that RINO Bob Dold beat wants a rematch, but Brad the rat has a serious primary challenger in the Mayor of Highland Park.
CD 11, 3 Rs running against Rat Rep Bill Foster. DuPage County Board Member Tonia Khouri is the most serious. Another is Bill White, who is Black. White is a Nuclear Physicist. If he wins the primary it’ll be Physicist V Physicist, which would likely be unprecedented. It’s usually Lawyer V. Lawyer.
CD 12, The scumbag the rats are putting up against freshman R Mike Bost is C.J. Baricevic. The J stands for Jerk, I can’t post what the C stands for. 2 Greens are running, which is good, the Green got 5.6% last time, though Bost topped 50% and didn’t need it.
CD 13, RINO Rodney Davis has a primary challenger in Pharmacist Ethan Vandersand, no chance. A Macon County Board Member is the rat running. Former rat nominee David Gill may run as an “I”, deadline for “I”s is not till June I think.
CD 14, 3 rats oppose Randy Hultgren (R) who’s safe.
CD 15, No D filed, John Shimkus (R) has a primary challenge from State Sen Kyle McCarter, I’m inclined to support McCarter, Shimkus’s record isn’t great lately.
CD 16, No D filed, Colin McGroarty, a tea party activist is opposing RINO Adam Kinzinger, no chance
CD 17, 2 nobody Rs running against rat Cheri Bustos
CD 18, RINO Lathug Jr. is unopposed
“Filing deadline was today (or yesterday since it’s past midnight)”
Or the 30th, whatever day that was. ;p
I emailed my resume to Liz Pahlke, and I asked if I can work for her campaign. She said that I have a lot of political experience, but she only wants to hire employees who have no experience.
I work for Andrew Straw, a conservative candidate in the 8th District. His site (www.strawforcongress.com) states that he’s pro-tax cuts, pro-spending cuts, pro-life, pro-gun rights, and anti-illegal alien. One of his primary opponents, Pete DiCianni has a website, but it doesn’t tell any of his views. I emailed him and asked him a few questions. Two weeks later, he didn’t respond, so I called the number on his site. A recording said, “That number is not accepting calls at this time.”
My thoughts on our pathetic congressional districts & “representation” in government:
District 1: I actually thought about filing myself (PhilCollins suggested the idea as well) after the disaster last election with RAT Tillman as the “Republican” nominee. I was going to file for Congress and as a delegate for Scott Walker in IL-1. Walker literally dropped out a day after I got the paperwork to run as delegate. Guess it’s karma’s way of telling me don’t run. The non-Tillman candidate has a website that tells us virtually nothing about him, but if he’s even remotely decent, I hope every Republican supports him in the primary over Tillman.
District 2: Whoever John Morrow is, he’ll be the GOP nominee.
District 3: Puke. I’d vote for Lipinski over Jones. I imagine anyone else who actually follows the candidates would do so as well.
District 4: Gutierrez used to get regularly challenged by Mexican-American candidates in the primary for ethnic reasons (district is heavily Mexican ancestry but Gutierrez is Puerto Rican). Its really impossible to challenge Gutierrez from the left in a RAT primary, though I’m sure this wacko will try.
District 5: Ironically, this was the “lone Chicago majority district” to elect a Republican Congressman in recent memory, when Michael Patrick Flanngan won in a fluke back in ‘94. Have no idea what % of the district is GOP now.
District 6: Safe Republican (so much for the RATs gloating back in 2006 that they would have Roskam’s seat within a decade due to demographic changes). Ha.
District 7: I see former Republican Fred Collins is running as a RAT now. Sigh.
District 8: I know Rich Evans, I guess Phil Collins is supporting Andrew Straw. Wish we could take back this seat. At least Suckworth won’t be representing it anymore.
District 9: Sounds like Joan Lasonde is the only decent Republican of the bunch.
District 10: Oh goody, another “debate” between Dold and Schneider where they agree with each other on every issue and argue over who’s more liberal! “I love Planned Parenthood more!” “No way, I do!” An IL-10 tradition going back until at least 2000.
District 11: White vs. Foster sounds like an interesting matchup. Another where I’d love if we could remove that scumbag Foster. I can’t understand how he won so easily in the past.
District 12: Not a fan of Bost, but I’d take him over the RAT.
District 13: Another weird district... didn’t Erika Harold (who SHOULD have been appointed in the first place) challenge Rodney Davis in the primary last name but get nowhere? Strange that the district’s GOP voters would rubber stamp Davis so easily. We could definitely improve over him.
District 14: Hultgren could stay home in bed until election day and win without breaking a sweat. I think the RATs redistrictly IL-14 to squeeze all the nearby Republicans in there.
District 15: Shimkus had one of the better records of the IL GOP delegation, as I recall. Still, its long past due for him to retire. If McCarter can make the case he’s clearly more conservative, he’d get my vote. I’d only support Shimkus if his primary opponent was another “Dr. Milton Wolf” type who invents his “fearless conservative warrior” image out of thin air.
District 16: Boy oh boy...do “Tea Party” activists hate Kinzinger. To hear them talk, you’d think the guy is to the left of Judy Baar Topinka and Mark Kirk (and they swear he is, though I don’t recall Adam matching in gay pride parades, worshipping Planned Parenthood, championing cap-n-trade, or gloating about being rated to the left of Obama by the Sierra Club). I remember Adam Kinzinger’s last “true conservative” Tea Party activist opponent was talking up Rauner during the GOP primary, and balked when I pointed it out on facebook. Anyway, Kinzinger has been meh in Congress and I’d support a decent primary challenger, but I haven’t seen any and there are much worse RINOs to fry in this state.
District 17: Bleh. I hate how all the CDs in Illinois have been rigged. Would love to get rid of Bustos, I will back whichever of the second-tier Republican opponents sounds stronger.
District 18: Of course no one in central Illinois will challenge LaPuke in the primary, and if they did, the IL GOP establishment down there would see to it that they are promptly kicked off the ballot. LaPuke has already gone off the reservation on one major issue (the Ex-Im Bank). I expect to turn full fledged traitor after 4 election cycles or so, and he’ll be unopposed each time. He’s laying low for now.