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Volkerball posted:It's not really downstate. Kinda Chicago-lite. It's obviously not downstate, but is treated as such by Chicago, and anyone downstate (i.e. south of i-80) treats the north region as being part of Chicago. Just makes it even more of a lovely area. Then again it's actually quite pretty with hills and whatnot, unlike everything else until you get all the way south to Carbondale. As for politics, I'm very excited for nonstop ads for the next year and a half. TV stations must be very excited about the prospect of two billionaires duking it out
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xzzy posted:Garden of the Gods is quite nice! there's a ton of really cool stuff down there, i did a big solo trip there years ago. giant city, fern clyffe, little grand canyon, garden of the gods, its all good also there's some good paddling right by starved rock if you're in that area at any point, wildcat rapids is actually a legit very short rapid with a good drop that i failed to run in an open canoe w/ my dad despite thinking we could do it finally, the reason half of chicago goes to michigan for vacations is that 90% of chicagoans are actually from michigan
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Bird in a Blender posted:Has anyone even officially thrown their hat in the ring? I thought it was all just speculation now anyway. Drury.
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Sep 20, 2017 15:53
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Pawar out. bow down to your millionaire/billionaire overlords
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let's see how the statehouse sexual harassment stuff is going , quote:As late as this week, and after repeated inquiries by myself and others, members were assured that there were “no pending cases” before the Ethics Commission. Today, I discovered that staff is, in reality, holding up to 27 separate complaints against members of the Illinois General Assembly, and have used the fact that no Inspector General has been named as the reason there are—technically—no pending cases since it only becomes a “case” when it is reviewed by the Inspector General. oh. oh dear
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Man_of_Teflon posted:House Deputy Majority Leader Lou Lang (D-Skokie), who frequently presides over the House in the absence of Madigan, said the group still meets every month “unless there’s no activity.” good news, he's technically right! because sexual harassment is not defined as an ethics violation by the ethics committee woooo
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The X-man cometh posted:Luis Gutierrez isn't running for re-election. The official announcement is at 1 today, with Chuy Garcia, so the assumption is that Gutierrez is going to endorse Chuy and get the base minimum of signatures by the deadline next week. Yeah this is a big setup which is always funny. Chuy probably got the heads up from Gutierrez to be ready to get signatures, and in exchange Chuy stays out of Rahm's way (since Gutierrez is a Rahm ally). There's also the puerto rican vs mexican component to this but I don't think that'll actually matter due to the signature deadline. This district shouldn't even exist due to how badly gerrymandered it is, but so it goes.
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presumably if all the loop buildings were paying their real value instead of half of it, the levy could increase without burdening homeowners and then you wouldn't need stupid poo poo like a pop tax (designed to raise less each year due to being a sin tax) to ostensibly pay for county employee salaries
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In any rational world being on tape with a convicted crooked politician hinting about taking bribes should be a bad thing but gently caress it this is Illinois that poo poo doesn't even register anymore
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Without having seen the debate, I feel like Pritzker's selling pretty much what Biss is (progressive income tax, medicare for all, that kinda thing) but have absolutely zero reason to believe that Pritzker would actually follow through with it. Not like Biss is a radical leftist either, considering he was one of the main cosponsors of the failed pension laws. Also I don't see how Biss ever climbs out of the hole he dug with the BDS/Rosa issue. Getting the endorsement of the nursing union is pretty big but not enough. As to Chris Kennedy - who wants a middle of the road, more of the same idiot? Illinois is in need of desperate change, and I think voters on both sides would agree on that, just not the method how.
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Dexo posted:Jesus to be fair to Kirk, at that point he had already suffered actual brain damage and probably wasn't thinking too clearly and speaking of Republicans, I know a few who are voting for Ives because they're so upset about Rauner passing some abortion funding bill and it's like holy poo poo guys, nothing else about him bothered you? Nothing?
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Volkerball posted:As dipshit Republicany as Rauner is, he's at least been a cork at times. He probably saved the state from bankruptcy a few days by prolonging the budget debate. They ended it by taking out a loan to pay off interest, so the result was the same, but he drug it out to the skinniest of deadlines and made a big show of opposing the Democrats. It didn't help the state of Illinois better its financial position any, but it may have given a little tax relief to anyone in the state who may be stuck there living paycheck to paycheck. So in that situation I think gridlock probably paid off. If either party had total control, they would've long since passed a lavish budget that showered money on the people close to them. Getting poo poo like that through congress and signed off would be no problem because they wouldn't have to frame things through the spectrum of national Democrat/Republican politics. That is kind of a scary idea given, like, Illinois. blago+dem control of house/senate didn't lavish money on everyone. Blago reneged on so many promises that the legislature didn't trust him at all and made him write him promises down for them to hold onto and wave in his face later on. I don't think you need to vote republican blindly and if you do, vote Ives at least. Rauner loving sucks mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Jan 24, 2018 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d57WlyvHA-I ahahhahaha that is unbelievably offensive its amazing if i didnt know better i'd say bruce rauner is using ives as controlled opposition to make himself look better mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Feb 2, 2018 |
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woops https://capitolfax.com/2018/02/05/fbi-recording-catches-pritzker-joking-with-blagojevich-god-drat-america/#comments quote:“I’m sure you thought of this one, but Jesse White,” Pritzker tells Blagojevich. “Even though I know you guys aren’t like, you know, bosom buddies or anything, it covers you on the African-American thing.” […] not a big deal but it's gonna blow up with huffy journalists talking about how offensive that is edit: https://twitter.com/MaryAnnAhernNBC/status/960955989334872064 somehow rauner is going to end up winning from all this. unreal mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Feb 6, 2018 |
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The real problem for Pritzker is that he can't even state that there aren't worse tapes ready to be dropped.
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brugroffil posted:Where did these tapes come from? FOIA? someone inside the FBI is sending them to rauner. i 100% believe he's got a bunch more to drop on pritzker come november
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quote:County and city election officials said Tuesday they were sending the ballots to print with Raila’s name on them, even though the election officials last week voted to kick her off and asset manager Fritz Kaegi asked the court to keep her off. god DAMNIT this just splits the anti berrios vote
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This Harold/breen/minor stuff is unreal, wow some local dude (Minor) trying to take Ives' state rep seats called Harold the nword to her face and asked if she thought it was offensive, then asked if she was 'a lesbo'. And when he got called out he responded saying people tried to bribe him not to run for staterep
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Feb 23, 2018 15:43
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Niwrad posted:Talk is cheap and he's shown that's all he is. You're responsible for the votes you make and bills you support. And his stance when it mattered is clear. Problem is, that just leads to the only electable guys being independently wealthy businessmen who don't have bad votes to explain.
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Niwrad posted:I'll take my chances on an unknown than someone who I know doesn't support those policies. Yeah your points are 100% correct. He has a history of a bunch of bad votes. I just think there's a bunch of excuses that can rationalize why he's the better choice over pritzker , the top one being inherent distrust of billionaires running for their first office. I also think Rauner matches up better with Pritzker, especially since Pritzker was unable to say if he thought more damaging FBI tapes were out there. Truth be told I think biss and pritzker would have pretty similar terms. A lot of their platform is predicated on having a constitutional convention and they're going to have to partner up with Madigan to get that done. The only primary that really matters is Cook county assessor For AG it's a question of strategic voting - I think that public defender guy would do the most immediate help in policing reform, but he has no money or endorsements. Kwame and Quinn are leading the polls and I think they're both incredibly cozy with everyone in politics and will do absolutely zilch about corruption, so Fairley ends up the best option of those top 3 and hope she can win 34-33-33 or whatever mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Mar 9, 2018 |
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Bird in a Blender posted:After Trump, I believe anything is possible, but IL is way more blue than the average of the country, and Rauner has like a mid 30s favorable rating. The Dems would have to really really really screw this up to lose. It's insane that Rauner has a shot but he does The choices are 1a) super uninspiring political legacy guy who doesn't energize anyone, is anti-weed, anti everything and self funds to some degree, his only political thing is about cook county property taxes (kennedy) - could lose a low turnout election 1b) super rich dude with multiple FBI tapes out there of him talking poo poo with blago, is unable to say if more tapes exist (that means they probably do) and can also lose another low turnout election with 100m spent in negative advertising on both sides 1c) middle class nerd who has a history of bad votes that are hard to explain meanwhile rauner's busy trying to get as many veterans killed in quincy as he possibly can for some reason illinois loving sucks
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I can't figure out why there's 700 grand being dumped into the state rep primary race in biss's district (Laura Fine is moving up to take biss's seat). There's 3 indistinguishable women with school board experience and the same generic platforms, who cares which of them come out of it. I've been getting crazy amounts of mailers and seeing more and more articles about the money involved but no rationale for whyquote:Committees controlled by seven Democratic state representatives poured in $359,400 just last Tuesday and committees controlled by House Speaker Michael Madigan contributed more than $22,000 so far this month. I guess its just a squabble over party loyalty but good god that's a lot of loving money for a vote for madigan as speaker mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Mar 19, 2018 |
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withoutclass posted:Not until corporate interest is out of politics! I don't think lack of corporate interests would stop Rauner and Pritzker from spending 100m against each other over the next six months, it's going to be insufferable Also my predictions based on literally nothing: Pritzker 35, Kennedy 31, Biss 30 Lipinski over Newman by 2 Rauner by 10 Kwame by 2 over Quinn
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Man_of_Teflon posted:No endorsements bump for Fairley? I think it's going to come down to name recognition vs machine for quinn and kwame, with higher turnout than normal carrying it for kwame. Who the gently caress knows though Fairley is gonna be a distant third but again I don't think there's any recent polling on this at all.
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Is there any polling at all on Berrios? it's the only race I care about and I feel he's going to win just like dorothy brown did
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Mar 19, 2018 21:22
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sd6 posted:So are any of these AG's on the democratic ballot worth anything aaron goldstein is the most progressive and also the least likely to win; however since voting on an individual level is masturbatory anyways feel free to not worry about wasting your vote
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hillary is doing robocalls for JB i know she's from illinois but good god go away lady. i'm surprised he was actually willing to use this even in the primary
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twice burned ice posted:Someone talk to me about Chris Kennedy. I like his platform, but I'm not a big fan of dynasty politics. goldstein is good (public defender) but not going to win
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twice burned ice posted:Well when you put it that way... I may just vote for Robert Marshall and his three state solution. (not really) gently caress this dumb state, Marshall is the path to the future it's going to be hilarious if every cook county republican pulls a dem ballot to vote against berrios and rauner loses the primary to the downstate base
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Pritzker is having his rally at the Marriott? boy the Hyatt???
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Big Black Dick posted:WGN just said Berrios called Kaegi and conceded. gently caress and yes. hell yeah. but I'm worried about the disaster with raila this morning that took over an hour to correct pritzker won this way easier than I expected, I guess living a block from biss's office blinded me a bit. so far I think I called every election right but not the margin , not even close on those. kind of hoping rauner eats poo poo though considering he's a straight up villain at this point
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I think the hosed up voting instructions this morning was part of a setup to get berrios a special election where machine turnout can win it for him time to see how the lawsuits play out
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The whopping $66 million spent on ads in the Democratic and Republican primaries for Illinois governor made it the most expensive non-presidential primary of all time, according to the ad-tracking firm Advertising Analytics.
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The X-man cometh posted:To be fair, this is the hardest Pritzker has ever worked in his life. same with rauner. it's actually scary how much weight he lost in office even though he appeared to be doing jack poo poo the whole time (I guess killing veterans in Quincy took a toll on him??)
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My Imaginary GF posted:When your state has an open Senate seat and the governor calls, you'd be stupid not to take it, even if you suspect that the Feds are listening in. holy poo poo you're back anyways you know as well as everyone that jb knew full well blago wanted a bribe for the appointment and was playing along on the phone to keep blago happy without actually directly saying anything also the black stuff was back during the primary when it mattered, after which JB had all his supporters say they forgave him for saying Emil was uppity (the word crass was used because again, coded language) emil jones posted:Pritzker showed his “true colors” when he told Rod Blagojevich in a secretly recorded conversation that Jones was too “crass” to fill Barack Obama’s Senate seat, Jones said Tuesday.
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I didn't read it but anything absolving Edgar is wrong and under Thompson they did the 3% cola no matter what. Probably exempted pensions from taxes then too, I'm not sure when that passed this poo poo goes back to the constitutional convention in the 70s and even before. It's going to be a battle of haves and have nots and a ton of hatred on each side towards the other caveat: my dad gets a super sweet pension and I directly benefit from it, but I still can't stand how they work. neither can he, he quit his state job out of frustration over lack of any realistic pension changes. it's not like JB is going to change anything
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Thwomp posted:I'm having trouble following the underlying assumption but is it essentially that Edgar and politicians before him in the 80s and 90s underfunded the pension contributions through mathwizardry. When the 90s economy fell apart in 2000, the math couldn't hold together and the bill came due (in 2012)? yeah they said look we aren't going to pay jack poo poo into pensions now but ramp up payments later. we totally swear future pols will do this no problem. wow our budget is balanced for this year! time to retire and take cushy gigs *time passes* new politicians: uh we aren't gonna pay these way higher contributions for pensions what the hell smame with the 3% increases for cola. back then that was below inflation so it was a cost saving measure, then turned into a boondoggle
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