Patrick Fitzgerald speaking at commencement in Peoria, IL

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Thursday December 11, 2008 · 10:06 AM PST

2008/12/11 · 10:06

Here's the announcement itself, after the jump. He is speaking at the December commencement at Bradley University. Just posting to alert all the folks in Central Illinois.

I'm not sure what the deal is for attending - tickets and all that. Not even sure if the general public is invited. But The Civic Center is huge. Might be worth a call or attempt.

I am staff at BU, and hope I can go because I HEART PATRICK FITZGERALD, and have for quite some time now. Obvious Kossack reasons.

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How much do you HEART Patrick Fitzgerald?

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How much do you HEART Patrick Fitzgerald?

Not much

9 votes

With all my heart and soul!

7 votes

I'd bear a child for him - or give him one of my current children.

5 votes

He's such a cool dude.

14 votes

I hate his freakin' guts, the dirty bastige!

0 votes

He's a'ight.

9 votes

IL-18 Durbin working Backdate-gate for Callahan

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Wednesday October 22, 2008 · 2:51 PM PDT

2008/10/22 · 14:51

Yes, Colleen Callahan got a late start in this race, but there aren't many polls in the area to help us get a good sense of where this race is at.

I think it could be a VERY surprising pick up, folks. I've been volunteering for Callahan for months, and not unlike Obama's slow pace towards eventually grabbing the nomination, Callahan's trajectory is similar, imho. A lot of people like her, I've been talking to a lot of them! I'm working the local Women's Lifestyle Show for her booth on Saturday (and this is a huge local event for the ladies).

Dick Durbin has been putting in time for Colleen (pronounced co (as in company) lean), but he came out with an email to his list today referring to the recently broken scandal about Republican opponent, and notary public, Aaron Schock and how he backdated documents an entire year for his dad to help him establish tax shelters. This is part of court record, as Schock's dad was testifying in regards to a tax shelter scam he was a victim of. Eman wrote a diaryon this already if you want to check out the background on the scandal.

SO Durbin's email and some more great news after the jump!

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Thursday October 16, 2008 · 1:15 PM PDT

2008/10/16 · 13:15

Is Joe the Plumber yet another hot-headed decision by McCain and his camp?

We have one diary on the Rec list already with excellent research on Joe Wurzelbacher already. But the facts are flowing fast and furious today.

Here's an email I just got:

Are you catching all of the 'Joe' news so far this morning?

He's a registered Republican.
He was already committed.
He doesn't actually have a plumber's license.
His county is suing him for unpaid taxes.
The company he wants to buy only has two employees, including the owner, yet it somehow makes over $250,000 profit!
And is a relative to.... wait for it... wait for it... Charles Keating!!!! AUGH!!!!
Boy, now there's a poster child!

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What does Juan McSame consult to make his rash, hot-headed decisions?

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What does Juan McSame consult to make his rash, hot-headed decisions?

The little angel on his right shoulder - damn that devil on the left?

4 votes

His inner child

2 votes

His inner rage

31 votes

The voices

37 votes

Sarah Palin

4 votes

Dick Cheney

1 vote

Karl Rove

11 votes

A Viet Cong prison warden (please, lighting and God, don't strike me down)

5 votes

Cindy

2 votes

Georgie Boy!

3 votes

Aaron Schock on Mentalist

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 5:15 PM PDT

2008/09/24 · 17:15

So I heard from a coworker today about a break in her viewing of The Mentalist, via dvr, last night. That an Aaron Schock commercial sort of broke into the middle of the show. Right after Simon Baker announced that the doctor was gay. She's not sure she can transfer it/record it off her DVR.

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Monday July 21, 2008 · 9:58 AM PDT

2008/07/21 · 09:58

Democratic congressional candidate Colleen Callahan is having a fish fry this Friday, July 25th in Kickapoo, IL (just northwest of Peoria). It's the same day that President Bush will be visiting Peoria, IL to campaign for Aaron "Give Taiwan Some Nukes" Schock.

The big difference - Bush and Schock's event at a local Angus cattle farmis being held in the middle of a work day - around 1:30 pm or so I hear. And it costs $500 a ticket, and $5,000 to have your photo taken with W. Whereas Callahan's fish fry is 4-8 pm and only $15 bucks, if anything. Details below the fold.

Oh, and her ActBlue page, natch!

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Are you in IL 18?

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Are you in IL 18?

Yes, and I'm voting for Callahan.

5 votes

Yes, but I'm not voting for Callahan.

3 votes

Yes, but I'm still undecided.

0 votes

No, but I love fried fish. Hope it's walleye!

3 votes

No, but I love pie!

5 votes

Dem Callahan in IL 18 getting national support

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Friday July 11, 2008 · 2:41 PM PDT

2008/07/11 · 14:41

It doesn't seem to have hit too many radars yet, but I really think the race in Illinois Congressional District 18 is gonna be tight! This is a district that has been Republican held since the 1940s, as I diaried the other day, going back as far as I could research without taking too much time out of my workday. Since 1949 at least.

Jane Harman in CA-36 and her SecureUS PAC is hosting a fundraiser for several "moderate-style Democrats who have an interest in national security issues." I have to give the hat tip to a local blogger on this one, Peoria Pundit broke this story to me.

Though click hereif you want it from the horse's mouth, and that would be PolitickerCA.

Red to blue, my friend, red to blue for IL 18.

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Thursday July 10, 2008 · 8:27 AM PDT

2008/07/10 · 08:27

So we've all been complaining for months that the press is giving John McCain pass after pass after pass in the news. He says stupid, inane things and no one catches them or cares to talk about them (save the "100 years in Iraq" nugget of gold he gave us all). We (Kossacks and netizens, etc) all watch him closely, listen to what he actually says - and bellow from our supposedly lonely mountaintop that McSame "is a dipshit" - "is senile" - "is flip flopping like a live salmon in a dry boat" ad nauseum.

But something I have been noticing lately, in the news outlets I do pay attention to - and Fox Spews is not one of them - that Obama has been getting all the air time. By a wide margin, everything Obama does and says is covered, and McSame's name is mentioned, but footage of him is not aired, pictured of him are not featured.

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Is the MSM favoring coverage of Obama, no matter how insipid? Are they neglecting Grampa McSame to favor the Barack star?

What, are you high? Fox shows McCain all the time. Get yourself a real news channel, tree-hugging freak!

No, actually, on the media outlets I prefer, they get about even coverage.

What, are you high? I watch EVERYTHING, and the coverage is about even.

Right on, fellow liberal chica! Obama is hotter than Paris Hilton's coochie and no one can get enough of him, including the MSM.

God I wish - but no, I have to watch about the same coverage of Grandpa McSame, IMHO.

Television - what is this television you speak of? I must go back to my computer and read my top 100 blogs by lunchtime.

Television? What is this television you speak of? I though all good liberals had banned those from their homes.

Network news? Pffttt!! Get yourself over to cable - ha! and you call yourself a Kossack!

Too busy getting ready for Netroots Nation - what did you say?

Pie! The Song! go here - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00156A7GU/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk6

Wait, I have Marshall McLuhan right over here "I heard what you were saying. You, you know nothing of my work. You mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing."

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Is the MSM favoring coverage of Obama, no matter how insipid? Are they neglecting Grampa McSame to favor the Barack star?

What, are you high? Fox shows McCain all the time. Get yourself a real news channel, tree-hugging freak!

1 vote

No, actually, on the media outlets I prefer, they get about even coverage.

3 votes

What, are you high? I watch EVERYTHING, and the coverage is about even.

0 votes

Right on, fellow liberal chica! Obama is hotter than Paris Hilton's coochie and no one can get enough of him, including the MSM.

8 votes

God I wish - but no, I have to watch about the same coverage of Grandpa McSame, IMHO.

1 vote

Television - what is this television you speak of? I must go back to my computer and read my top 100 blogs by lunchtime.

5 votes

Television? What is this television you speak of? I though all good liberals had banned those from their homes.

0 votes

Network news? Pffttt!! Get yourself over to cable - ha! and you call yourself a Kossack!

0 votes

Too busy getting ready for Netroots Nation - what did you say?

0 votes

Pie! The Song! go here - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00156A7GU/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk6

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Red to Blue for IL-18?

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Monday July 07, 2008 · 12:49 PM PDT

2008/07/07 · 12:49

I have diaried this before, but am doing it again, because I have personally met with Colleen Callahan, and having had such a great meeting with her, one on one - am now a committed vote and volunteer. So here's my little plug for her candidacy.

She is running for the seat that has been held by Ray LaHood for 7 terms, and prior to him, Robert "Bob" Michel from 1957 till 1995 (that's a lot of terms), whose predecessor was Harold Velde from 1949-1957, and Wikipedia says that before him it was Edward Jenison, another Republican, but the dates don't seem to gel. So IL-18 has been held by a Republican since 1949 at the very least, and if we count since 1947 - that's 61 years. Too long, my friends.

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Tuesday April 15, 2008 · 8:01 AM PDT

2008/04/15 · 08:01

I recently emailed the link to Jerome a Paris' diary about the financial market problems we're experiencing to a handful of friends, including two Republican friends. I probably shouldn't have, but my subject line was "I was right," as I've been asking them to explain to me how money can breed more money without some sort of basic tangible asset underlying it all. None of them ever bothered to respond to my original request, and only replied once I'd sent them a challenge, to their free market primacy, as it were.

So below I post first the reply I received from one of those republicans (who actually works in theatre, this always mystifies me). Then my reply, which I think is damn thoughtful. Hope you enjoy.

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Which is a greater human right? no easy answer

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Which is a greater human right? no easy answer

To have a job

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To earn money

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To maintain your health in a reasonable manner

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To own a home

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To maintain your well being (define as you will)

2 votes

To live comfortably

2 votes

To better your situation

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Supporting Obama pt. 2 - reply to my reply

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Tuesday March 18, 2008 · 12:10 PM PDT

2008/03/18 · 12:10

You have to read my last diary first to understand this diary. I sent out the Obama viral email to a lot of folks. I got that reply from a friend - directing me to the Chicago Trib's op-ed on Obama, a glowing one IMHO.

So she replied back again. And I wrote yet another long reply myself. I think it's a pretty good analysis of being a left winger, but willing to work the system in the way Obama espouses. Enjoy the read again.

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Friday March 14, 2008 · 11:28 AM PDT

2008/03/14 · 11:28

I sent out the Obama viral email this morning, created here by Travis Sparks et al. A great piece of work, and I really did send it to just about everyone in my address book. To which, I got a reply from a friend who serves on the local ACLU board with me. A fellow devoted liberal Dem. She pointed me to an op-ed from today's Chicago Tribune. (Today is also my bro's birthday - happy happy. Albert Einstein too!) Anyway, I've posted below her email reply, and then my pretty long winded reply to her. I edited it a few times, honestly, to take out some of the vitriol and disrespect that I spewed in the heat of the moment, thank goodness. As that would have been exactly what I accuse Hillary of. Reading the op-ed, and then writing my letter made me really think about why I support Obama, and thusly, I have tripled in my adoration and support for OHB. Enjoy!

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Tuesday March 11, 2008 · 7:59 AM PDT

2008/03/11 · 07:59

Colleen Callahan, a well known agriculture reporter in Central Illinois, announced yesterday her intentions to run for US House of Representatives in Illinois' 18th District. It's a funky district, jerrymandered, of course, like all districts in Illinois - though this was done to help Republicans and it's worked for a long damn time. The seat has been held by a Republican for 60-some years now, the most recent 22 of those by "Uncle Ray" LaHood - one of the best at bringing home Federal bacon. His predecessor and mentor, Bob Michel, held the seat from 1956 until 1995, 39 freakin' years! That I can tell, it's never been held by a woman. But given Bill Foster's pick up of Denny Hastert's long time Republican district this past Saturday - I'd say Colleen (pronouced Co-lean, co with a long o) has a damn good chance!

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Dem Callahan in IL 18 getting national support

McSame vs. Obama - press coverage. Less is less?

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Why is the primacy of the capitalist market a greater human right than health and welfare?

Supporting Obama pt. 2 - reply to my reply

Supporting Obama defined via Chicago Trib and friend

Dem Pick Up opportunity in IL-18???