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Morning shorts - flashback edition
Monday, Mar 6, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller For those of you who didn’t visit the blog over the weekend (we’re a 7-day per week thing until primary day), here’s some of what you missed. FRIDAY EVENING: I heard a few hours ago that Edwin Eisendrath’s campaign was calling around to TV stations today asking about broadcast ad rates. With everything else going on, I couldn’t follow up. Now comes word that Eisendrath was talking earlier this week about spending a million dollars on a late buy. SATURDAY: · Sunday edition of the Tribune has a Gidwitz endorsemnt and the Sunday Sun-Times endorses Topinka. Steve Rauschenberger was endorsed by both papers. · Bill Brady just took out a bank loan for $250,000. · Post-Dispatch story points out that a verdict decision for George Ryan could happen right before primary day, and wonders how that might impact the race. SUNDAY: · Check out this at the bottom of today’s Sun-Times endorsement of Judy Baar Topinka: This endorsement represents the view of the Sun-Times News Group of 100 newspapers in the Chicago metro area. That’s a lot of papers. The Southtown, all of the Star papers and the Pioneer Press papers, as well as the Joliet Herald News, Aurora Beacon News, Elgin Courier News, Waukegan News Sun and the Naperville Sun. · Daily Herald endorses Blagojevich, Giannoulias, Champaign News-Gazette endorses Bill Brady and Edwin Eisendrath. · Kristen McQueary discovers whom the governor really blames for not knowing that The Daily Show is a comedy thing. “I’m not so sure I would have done the interview. The deputy governor (Bradley Tusk) takes responsibility, as well he should, because he’s the one who didn’t tell me.†· Meeks report, from a longtime reader: …by the way reading your meeks stuff, [redacted] and I watched his service this morning which is broadcast on local cable, I tell you from his sermon that guy is running, it was quite a bashing of both GOP and DEMs, he really had the place rocking […]
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- Bill Baar - Monday, Mar 6, 06 @ 6:07 am:
What’s Meeks have to say on Farrakhan?
I’m betting Ryan gets off easy.
- Anon - Monday, Mar 6, 06 @ 7:04 am:
I”ve heard that the Eisendrath TV buy is going to be a half million. By the way, is anyone going to do a poll on the Republican primary before election day? I’m shocked that there has only been one public poll so far. In past elections there were several by this time.
- Six Degrees of Sepatation - Monday, Mar 6, 06 @ 7:41 am:
Kristen’s story: Is GRod about to throw Tusk under the bus? Say it ain’t so:-) Stay tuned.
- Skeeter - Monday, Mar 6, 06 @ 9:12 am:
The Tribune Gidwitz thing was interesting. It pointed to the fact that since JBT will not renounce Kjellander (spelling?) she most likely would not make the necessary changes to the way business is done in Springfield.
I have to admit that if I was a Republican (and I thank my parents for giving me the strong moral foundations that have allowed me to escape that fate) I would give that endorsement a lot of weight. They are right. JBT has a nice record, what has she done to make us think she will make major changes?
- The Ghost of Marty's Beard - Monday, Mar 6, 06 @ 9:38 am:
Hey Rich - did you forget to include the link to the Tribune’s endorsement in today’s shorts?
I notice JBT’s Sun-Times endorsement is still prominently linked. Nice comment about the 100 papers it represents. Too bad the Tribune is regarded as the paper of record in northern IL and especially among suburban Republicans.
But I’m sure your dropping of the Tribune link was just an oversight, right?
- Rich Miller - Monday, Mar 6, 06 @ 3:42 pm:
Thanks, Ghost. You win the Tinfoil Hat of the Day award.