Rahm Emanual loves Dan Lipinski

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Thursday January 17, 2008 · 6:07 AM PST

2008/01/17 · 06:07

On November 17, 2007, just two months ago today, Rahm Emanual's "Our Common Values" PAC made a $2,500 contribution to Congressman Dan Lipinski's reelection campaign.

AFTER Lipinski challenger Mark Pera's endorsement by Daily Kos, Open Left and Swing State Project
AFTER Mark Pera's endorsement by Firedoglake, Crooks and Liars, and Down with Tyranny
AFTER Mark Pera's endorsement by DFA
AFTER Mark Pera's endorsement by NARAL Pro-Choice America
and AFTER Mark Pera's endorsement by my local DFA group, Northside DFA.

Which means when my DFA friends and I were out there freezing our toenails off knocking on doors trying to get rid of Lipinski and elect Mark Pera, when Kossacks and FDLers and the rest of the netroots were scrounging for couch change to try to get rid of Lipinski and elect Mark Pera, Rahm was writing a check to help Lipinski's re-election campaign.

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Wednesday September 19, 2007 · 5:20 AM PDT

2007/09/19 · 05:20

[Note: Crossposted at www.blogforamica.com and www.prairiestateblue.com.]

Last Saturday I and three other members of my group, Northside Democracy for America, headed down to lovely Countryside, Illinois, for the campaign office grand opening of our NDFA endorsed candidate, Mark Pera.

I was pretty excited about the event because this was my first real chance to check out their operation and to get my feet wet in the district by hitting the streets and gathering some petition signatures. Our group endorsed Mark partly out of disgust for the incumbent, Bush Dog Democrat Dan Lipinski, but also because of Mark's obvious willingness to throw himself into this race heart and soul. But, as anyone who has been around campaigns for any length of time knows, heart and soul alone are not enough. You also need to have organization, planning and resources.

My quick impressions of the campaign? Read on ...

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Monday September 10, 2007 · 6:16 AM PDT

2007/09/10 · 06:16

Crossposted from Prairie State Blue.
http://www.prairiestateblue.com/...

Unbelievable.

Lipinski, Kirk seek accord on Iraq

Bipartisan tack touts Study Group proposals

By Jim Tankersley | Washington Bureau

September 8, 2007

[...] Republican Mark Kirk and Democrat Dan Lipinski, will join forces Monday to discuss the "path forward" in Iraq with a focus on the long-shelved recommendations of the Iraq Study Group [...] including political benchmarks for the Iraqi government and a goal, but no requirement, of U.S. troop withdrawals beginning next year. Lipinski is one of the bill's four original sponsors. [...]

http://www.chicagotr...

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Sunday August 05, 2007 · 7:37 AM PDT

2007/08/05 · 07:37

Cross posted from Prairie State Blue.

Yesterday John Edwards marched with the hotel workers who have been picketing the Congress Hotel since 2003. I got an email about it while I was at the Yearly Kos convention at McCormick Place, and it seemed like too good of an event to miss, so I decided to duck out of the convention and go march with him. An hour before the event I went over to the John Edwards booth, rounded up three other Edwards supporters, we grabbed a cab and headed over.

Here is my best photo from the event, which I took while marching in the picket line with John:

More photos, and more info, and a poll below the fold.

Poll

87 votes Show Results

Have you ever marched on union picket line (either as a union member or supporter)?

87 votes Vote Now!

Have you ever marched on union picket line (either as a union member or supporter)?

Many, many times.

11 votes

A couple of times.

15 votes

Once.

11 votes

Never.

18 votes

I would if given an opportunity.

25 votes

I wouldn't even if I had an opportunity.

5 votes

Other.

2 votes

DFA Sponsors pre-YK Health Care Forum in Chicago

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Thursday July 26, 2007 · 9:38 AM PDT

2007/07/26 · 09:38

Going to Yearly Kos, or know someone who is? If you will be there Wednesday night, I encourage you to attend our DFA Health Care for America Forum "What's the SiCKO Solution?"

This event is being organized by several of our local DFA groups, and we have some rock star speakers: Jim Dean, Chair of DFA; Claudia Fegan from Physicians for a National Health Care Program; John Bouman, Advocacy Director of the Sargent Shriver Center on Poverty Law; and Joe Moore, progressive Chicago Alderman and living wage advocate. Plus lots of our local DFAers (the coolest people on earth, BTW!) who can't necessarily afford to go to YK will be there. And, a little birdie named Ilya told me Kos health care blogger nyceve might be there as well.

The forum will be at the Unite HERE union hall, 333 S. Ashland Ave, Chicago, starting at 8:00 pm (after the PFAW reception). If you will have access to a car, there is plenty of free parking. If not, it is definitly cab-able from McCormick place, and you can take public transportation there as well.

More details below the fold ...

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Monday May 28, 2007 · 1:45 PM PDT

2007/05/28 · 13:45

(Cross-posted from Prairie State Blue.)

I posted a comment in a previous diaryabout why I thought Dan Lipinski, an anti-choice, pro-war "Democrat" in Illinois' 3rd Congressional District, can't be beat in the upcoming Dem primaries. My main argument was the fact that, because our primaries don't have runoff elections or instant runoff voting, it is too easy for the Chicago Machine to do exactly what they did last time -- put in a third candidate to split the anti-Lipinski voteso that Lipinski still ends up as the top vote getter, no matter how many people might like to see someone else in that seat. However, there were a couple of things that I was not taking into account when I wrote that comment that could make this a little more do-able than I thought.

Some hopefull speculations, a poll, and some facts about the district, below the fold ...

Poll

41 votes Show Results

Should the progressive grassroots and netroots take on Lipinski?

41 votes Vote Now!

Should the progressive grassroots and netroots take on Lipinski?

Yes, its winnable -- let's go for it!

19 votes

We should contest it no matter what the chance is.

15 votes

We can't decide without a candidate in place.

1 vote

It's not winnable -- we should work elsewhere.

2 votes

Forget it, beating Republicans is the priority.

2 votes

What's wrong with Lipinski?

1 vote

Other.

1 vote

Something amazing is happening in Chicago

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Monday February 26, 2007 · 10:25 AM PST

2007/02/26 · 10:25

Tomorrow are the Chicago municipal elections. And for the first time in decades, we have a chance for real change here in Chicago. A two-year spate of indictments and convictions has severly weakend the corrupt patronage system of the Chicago machine, giving progressive organizations a chance to make Chicago the battle ground for important legistlation like last summer's historic big-box Living Wage ordinance.

Though Mayor Daley seems poised for an easy re-election, groups like SEIU and the Chicago Federation of Labor have poured hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of workers into electing a slate of indepenent, progressive Chicago aldermen, and I believe that tomorrow we will see a political shake up that will change the face of Chicago politics. Democracy for America has also been getting involved. Our two active Chicago-based groups have endorsed candidates and have been out canvassing for months. Then on February 16th national DFA endorsed Aldermanic candidates in nine races (there are 50 aldermanic seats up for election). Those candidates are:

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Thursday December 01, 2005 · 5:13 AM PST

2005/12/01 · 05:13

Just had my first ever blog post on the Cegelis blog -- I have cross posted it below. Hope those who support her campaign will take the suggestions to heart.

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Choose to Make a Difference

No matter how worthy your cause or how exceptional your candidate, the success or failure of any campaign rests on the individual decisions of hundreds, even thousands, of people. Decisions to either get involved or not get involved. To accept a leadership role, or to let it pass you by. To make that extra phone call, to knock on that last door, to contribute that extra dollar, or not to. Read More

IL Dems - DFAers delivering letters to IL Dem Party

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Thursday August 11, 2005 · 8:16 PM PDT

2005/08/11 · 20:16

I know not everyone will be able to come down with DFA to the Rally in Springfield, Illinois, next Wednesday (there are details below, including our speakers list, in case you can) ... but there is still a way you can make your voice heard.

I am inviting all IL Dems to write a letter to the DPI.

At the rally DFAers, including me, will be hand-delivering letters from ordinary Democrats (like you!) to Tim Mapes, Chief of Staff to Michael Madigan, Chair of the Democratic Party of Illinois (DPI). This is your chance express your positive vision of what the DPI could and should be, and put it directly into the hands of the people who run one of the largest state Dem organizations in the country. Read More

The number of women in the U.S. house sucks

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Monday June 27, 2005 · 7:38 AM PDT

2005/06/27 · 07:38

Did you know that only 15% of members of the U.S. House of Representatives are female? Just 66 seats (43 Dem and 23 Rep) out of 435 total. I was totally unaware of this statistic until recently, but does that not just blow your mind?

The U.S. Senate is about the same at 14%. And because there are three states -- California, Maine and Washington -- that have two female senators, that means there are 39 states with no women in the Senate. There are 24 states with no women in the House, and 18 states with no women at all representing them at the federal level, either in the House or Senate! This means that when the congressional delegations from Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah or Vermont sit down for a friendly chat about the issues of the day, there are no women at the table.

And a bunch of the major issues right now disproportionately affect women:

(more on the flip ...) Read More

Cegelis Fans: Forget the DCCC, join the GCCC!

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Wednesday May 04, 2005 · 6:46 AM PDT

2005/05/04 · 06:46

So I hear a lot of vitriol around these parts about the ol' D Trip C, mostly along the lines of:

"Ohhhh, woe is me!!!! The DCCC won't support my candidaaaaaaaaaate!!!! Why are they so meeeeeeean???!!!"

Well, I say screw that. If you are a Christine Cegelis fan - listen up! You are about to hear about the GCCC Challenge: Grassroots for Christine Cegelis for Congress - $20.06 for 2006.

We have the power!!!

(I think someone else said that once ... )
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Election Outrage: Cegelis Left Off of Sample Ballot

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Wednesday October 20, 2004 · 10:42 AM PDT

2004/10/20 · 10:42

This is happening right now!!! For all those who care about Christine Cegelis's campaign to oust Henry Hyde in IL-06, I just received the following from the campaign office.

Cegelis Outraged By Election Commission Mistake
Precursor to Election Day Irregularities?

The DuPage County Election Commission has begun distributing a "sample ballot" with Henry Hyde listed as facing no opposition. Cegelis is listed incorrectly as a candidate for the "41st Senate District." The sample ballot was distributed to over 40 local newspapers that reach hundreds of thousands potential voters in the Sixth District. The error could cost Cegelis the election.

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