Gov. Pat Quinn and fellow Democratic leaders began the delicate dance of picking a new running mate for Quinn today, while emphasizing there was no horse-trading involved in a scandal-ridden Chicago pawnbroker's decision to abandon his primary nomination for lieutenant governor.
from HuffPost Chi Read full articleMayor Daley today transferred control over city hiring from his $4 million-a-year Office of Compliance to the inspector general and dropped a political bombshell on the City Council by proposing that the inspector general be given the power to investigate aldermen.
from HuffPost Chi Read full articleHere is something you don't hear every day: an Illinois Democrat criticizing state Democratic Party Chairman Michael Madigan.
After announcing his chairmanship of Alexi Giannoulias' Senate campaign, Sen. Dick Durbin talked to reporters over the weekend about the Scott Lee Cohen debacle--and placed some of the blame on Madigan, who is considered one of the most powerful state democrats:
"I think that Chairman Madigan needs…
With the Democrats clinging to their "59 vote minority" in the U.S. Senate, it's not surprising that the senior senator from Illinois Dick Durbin is on board to help get Alexi Giannoulias elected to the Senate in November. At a news conference at his Springfield home yesterday, Durbin announced that ye would chair Giannoulias' campaign, helping to "get out the vote" to overcome…
The ever wise and articulate Alex Ross of the New Yorker has a disturbing piece this week on his New Yorker based blog. It is not entirely unconnected to issues raised in my morning post of yesterday. And it is an analysis of a situation which we all in our business in the USA have seen creeping up on us during the last decade.
Oddly…