NY Times coverage of IL Senate Race

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Sunday January 31, 2010 · 10:05 AM PST

2010/01/31 · 10:05

From today's NY Times:

As Lender, Chicago Senate Candidate Was Party to Bank Woes
http://www.nytimes.com/...
By DAVID GREISING
Published: January 30, 2010

"Alexi Giannoulias would be nothing in Illinois politics if not for Broadway Bank. Now the near-failure of that family-owned bank is threatening to make him a political non-entity again."

See full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/...

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Wednesday January 27, 2010 · 8:59 PM PST

2010/01/27 · 20:59

Sean Hannity is an idiot. That said, he's put together a nice smear campaign on Alexi Giannoulias that I really hope I dont have to hear repeated in Mark Kirk attack ads for the next 10 months leading up to the general election.

See http://www.youtube.com/...

Why elect a nominee fighting this baggage when we Illinois democrats have a true untainted progressive reform candidate in David Hoffman?

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Tuesday January 12, 2010 · 3:38 PM PST

2010/01/12 · 15:38

The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Suntimes both came out with their endorsements this week for US Senate - both gave glowing endorsements to David Hoffman as the democratic nominee. They can be found here:
http://www.suntimes.com/...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

The first and only candidate debate is this evening. Live streaming video available on ABC at 7pm CST at http://abclocal.go.com/...

It will be nice to have a chance to see how the candidates compare side by side. Unfortunately, the press has hardly covered this race and Illinois voters have very little to go on except fluffy campaign ads with little to no content.

Dems bailing out Dealerships?

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Thursday December 24, 2009 · 12:32 PM PST

2009/12/24 · 12:32

U.S. auto dealerships have a ridicously strong lobby. Note their recent ability to exclude themselves from oversight from the legislation to form the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. They clearly play a fiduciary role in putting consumers into billions of auto loans a year, and are not the consumer's friend. Their latest victories on legislation that would help reinstate dealerships cancelled by GM and Chrysler are mind-numbing. Both as to how the NADA can flex its muscle and retroactively undo bankruptcy law, and in that the Democracts are happy to comply.

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Wednesday November 25, 2009 · 5:44 AM PST

2009/11/25 · 05:44

David Axelrod made comments to the NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/us/politics/22cncwarren.html) this past week that the Blagojevich saga will hang heavily over the upcoming IL Senate election, and Republican Mark Kirk is banking on it. Speaking of banks, Chicago Crains came out with two articles yesterday regarding IL Senate Democratic hopeful Alexi Giannoulias' ties to his own family's failing bank. See http://www.chicagobusiness.com/... and link to Greg Hinz piece entitled "Giannoulias wants bank crackdown, but faces own questions."

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Monday November 16, 2009 · 8:13 PM PST

2009/11/16 · 20:13

This was Lynn Sweet's headline today in the Chicago Sun Times (http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/1884123,CST-NWS-sweet15.article). The Illinois 2010 senate race should provide the residents of Illinois the chance to return respect to the seat that launched Obama to the White House, but was sullied by ex-Governor Blagojevich and embarrassed by sitting interim Senator Roland Burris. Instead, a hodge podge field of democrat wannabes has a lurking anti-progressive Republican Mark Kirk poised to take the seat for Republicans. Certain elections have made me proud to be from Chicago, and Illinois. We've taken unlikely candidates who represented wonderful progressive ideals and put them into office. For Mayor, Harold Washington. For Senate, Paul Simon. Carol Mosley Braun (before she let us down). Obama.

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