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CHICAGO - This afternoon, Leader Media President Dan Proft announced that IllinoisLeader.com plans to file suit to obtain Massachusetts' Senator John Kerry's, the presumptive Democrat nominee for President, sealed divorce records from his first marriage to Julia Thorne which was later annulled. "The Chicago Tribune and a Los Angeles Family Court judge have established a new standard for the release of marital and custodial documents," said Proft referring to the recent Jack Ryan decision. "Okay, then everyone in the public arena needs to be held to that standard. John Kerry is the start but there will be others we will...

Who would you like to see replace Jack Ryan as Republican candidate against Barak Obama? I'd like to see Jerry Weller, as long as he didn't have to give up his congressional seat to run.

He's appalled that someone would actually want to have sex with his own wife.

The Chicago Tribune and others in the media establishment were eager to unseal the divorce records of and destroy the Senate candidacy of GOP nominee Jack Ryan. But for some strange reason the pro-Democrat media have shown no more interest in John Kerry's divorce records than they have in uncovering his complete military records. Fear not. The conservative Illinois Leader announced today it would sue to obtain Kerry's divorce papers. Stay tuned. P.S.: Teh-RAY-zah, if you're reading this, please don't pound your hubby on his expensively coiffed noggin.

Illinois Senate: Obama 54% Ryan 30% June 25, 2004--In the race to fill a U.S. Senate seat for Illinois, Democrat Barack Obama leads Republican Jack Ryan 54% to 30%. The survey was conducted for the Daily Southtown. Ryan has been dealing with the fallout from release of his divorce files in recent days. Many people believe he will withdraw from the race. The Daily Southtown quoted Scott Rasmussen as saying Ryan "can lose or withdraw. He's not going to the Senate." Our previous survey found a much more competitive race (Obama 48% Ryan 40%). Since that time, Ryan's ratings have...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Illinois Republican candidate Jack Ryan intends to abandon his Senate bid after four days spent trying to weather a political storm stirred by sex club allegations, GOP officials said Friday. A formal announcement was expected within hours, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Ryan conducted an overnight poll to gauge his support in the wake of the allegations made by his ex-wife in

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...The resulting effect has led to a political bloodthirsty moment (as Jill Stanek wrote about) for the ILGOP who hate the conservative wing of their party to begin with and thus the calls of absolute shock and horror over the "lies" and "the way they were decieved". Conservatives are also upset that Jack didn't just take the simple step of revealing to them what was in the allegations from the beginning - so that in the primary voters could make their mind up and decide if they felt the mere allegations were too much to overcome. All of this brings...

A recent news story about a mouse born to two “mommies” [1] suggested that the feminist fantasy of parthenogenesis, in which women would bear children without any “input” from men, might someday be realized. But New York Times columnist Bob Herbert [2] went the pc feminists at the ABC one better: On June 4, he suggested that Illinois politician Barack Obama was birthed by Obama’s father, without a female (what used to be called a “mother”) playing any role in the matter. O.K., Herbert didn’t actually say that, though he’s said things just as outrageous in the past. What he...

Friday, June 25, 2004 An open letter to Sen. Fitzgerald Posted: June 25, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Kevin McCullough © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Dear Sen. Peter Fitzgerald: Desperate times often have called for desperate measures. There could be no greater political time of desperation than what the state of Illinois faces today. A man who is bright, articulate and seemingly well suited to run for your Senate seat has seemingly violated the trust of those in the leadership in his party and now it appears is unavoidably damaged in his quest to become the next senator from Illinois. Let me say upfront...

Ryan Considers Abandoning Senate Bid Jun 24, 6:19 PM (ET) By DAVID ESPO WASHINGTON (AP) - Illinois Republican senatorial candidate Jack Ryan, his candidacy in turmoil over sex club allegations, is considering quitting the race, a knowledgeable GOP official said Thursday. Ryan weighed his political future privately while his campaign insisted publicly that he would remain on the ticket. "Jack Ryan is in the race to stay," said a spokeswoman, Kelli Phiel. The GOP source said that Ryan was considering ending his campaign on a day that the Senate hopeful abruptly canceled a planned fund-raising visit to Washington and all...

WASHINGTON—-Beleaguered Senate Republican candidate Jack Ryan is considering quitting the race in the uproar touched off by the release of his divorce records, a Republican source told the Chicago Sun- Times on Thursday. "He’s reassessing," the source said. Ryan canceled a trip to Washington today where he had planned to appear with Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-Ill.) and attend a fund raiser headlined by Sen. George Allen (R-Va.), the chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee. Another fund raiser that had been set for this morning with House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) was also canceled when Hastert had a meeting...

Officials in the Jack Ryan campaign have spoken to some members of the congressional delegation, asking for advice about a possible strategy for ending his candidacy in the U.S. Senate race, sources said today. But as recently as this morning, a Ryan spokeswoman was denying rumors the candidate was reassessing whether to continue his campaign. "We are not reassessing. Jack Ryan is in the race to stay. Jack Ryan will be in the race on Nov. 2,'' Kelli Phiel told the Associated Press. The conversations between Ryan's campaign and Republicans in Washington came after the candidate dropped a scheduled trip...

Ryan Cancels Washington Fund-Raising Trip Illinois U.S. Senate Hopeful Ryan Cancels Washington Fund-Raising Trip Amid Sex Club Allegations The Associated Press CHICAGO June 24, 2004 — Senate candidate Jack Ryan canceled his Thursday fund-raising trip to Washington amid a Republican backlash over embarrassing allegations in his divorce records, but a spokeswoman denied rumors that he is considering withdrawing from the race. "We are not reassessing. Jack Ryan is in the race to stay. Jack Ryan will be in the race on November 2," spokeswoman Kelli Phiel said Thursday. She said the Republican candidate called off the trip after a fund-raiser...

Chicago - Newly unsealed divorce case records of US Senate candidate Jack Ryan allege that the Illinois Republican requested sex on several occasions from actress Jeri Ryan, who was allegedly his wife at the time. "If true, these charge bring into doubt Jack Ryan's fitness for public office," said an Illinois Democratic Party official who requested anonymity. "What kind of perverted sicko harbors sex fantasies with his own spouse?" While state GOP officials remained mum on the scandal, Illinois Republican representative Ray LaHood urged Ryan to withdraw his candidacy, saying that the controversy threatened to "tar all Republicans as twisted...

June 23, 2004 — The future of Jack Ryan's campaign for U.S. senate seems more in doubt. ABC 7 has learned about several signs that the republican's campaign events will be scaled back but publicly Ryan is still saying he's staying in the race. Two days ago the release of his divorce records rocked the Ryan campaign. The documents included allegations about visits to sex clubs. "If he asked me today, I would say, Jack, you need to assess whether you can wage a reasonable campaign and my view would be you probably can't," said Gary Skoien, Cook County GOP...

The Boston Globe Archives August 22, 1989 by John Robinson His divorce has been final for only six months, but already Sen. John Kerry has acquired a first-class rake's reputation in the rarefied world of rich, handsome, young bachelor senators. To hear the gossips tell it, the tall, dark-haired former Navy officer with the surgically improved chin has been cutting a swath through the ranks of America's most available young women, inspiring both admiration and envy among the capital's preening young singles. There was the lithesome, British-born researcher for ABC-TV, Emma Gilby, whose long affair with Kerry has left her...

Thank you, everybody, for being here today. I'm very grateful you came out today to listen to me and hear my thoughts. We just spent a weekend in this country thinking about fatherhood. I couldn't be with my son this weekend, but he sent me the most beautiful picture. It's a picture of him in a James Bond costume. He's got an oversized tuxedo on, and he's got a hat that is way too big, and kind of askew. He's got this look on his face, and I think he's trying to be cunning, but he looks a little bit...

Democrats and Liberal Media Attempt To Divide Republican Party Senatorial candidate, Jack Ryan, is under attack by democrats, and some republicans, after the release of his divorce papers on Monday. This is an attempt to divide the republican party and detract us from our message, and we cannot allow this attempt to succeed. It is important that republicans stick to the issues affecting Illinois and the rest of the country. We are facing a healthcare crisis, we are fighting a war on terror, judges are legislating from the bench, God is being driven out of our society, our Second Amendment...

Bill Clinton goes on a media blitz to promote his memoirs, and wouldn't you know it, a genuine nineties-style sex scandal erupts. Illinois Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald is retiring, and Jack Ryan is the Republican nominee running for his seat. (Ryan is no relation to former Governor George Ryan, former gubernatorial candidate Jim Ryan, or, for that matter, to the Tom Clancy protagonist of the same name.) With a politically attractive biography -- he ended a lucrative investment-banking career to teach in a inner-city school -- Ryan had the best shot of any of the candidates he trounced in the...