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Planned Parenthood backs Quinn, Giannoulias; Edgar backs Coulson

Thursday, Dec 10, 2009

* Planned Parenthood Illinois/Action, the political arm of Planned Parenthood has announced that it has endorsed Gov. Pat Quinn. The group also endorsed Alexi Giannoulias for US Senate. Other endorsements…

Mike Boland, Terry Link
Rickey Hendon and Art Turner - Lt. Governor
Lisa Madigan - Attorney General
Jesse White - Secretary of State
David Miller - Comptroller
Robin Kelly - Treasurer

Apparently, all those legislators running for LG qualified for the nod.

* Former Gov. Jim Edgar has endorsed Rep. Beth Coulson for the open 10th Congressional District seat. From a press release…

“As governor, I worked closely with Beth Coulson,” said Edgar. “I find her to be a person of tremendous talent, integrity and compassion. The same qualities that have made her an effective state legislator will make her an excellent member of Congress. The 10th District will be well served by electing Beth Coulson to Congress.” […]

Gov. Edgar’s endorsement follows on the heels of endorsements Coulson has received from the majority of Illinois Congressional Republicans - Reps. Judy Biggert, Timothy Johnson, Aaron Schock and John Shimkus - as well as virtually every Republican member of the Illinois General Assembly - including leaders State Rep. Tom Cross and State Sen. Chris Radogno - and local elected officials and civic leaders in the 10thCongressional District.

The New Trier Democrats endorsed Dan Seals over state Rep. Julie Hamos in the 10th CD Democratic primary. Hamos was endorsed by Citizen Action/Illinois.

* In other campaign news, the 14th Congressional District GOP primary is now a two-person race…

When a candidate is running without name recognition or the money to create a big bang, being the bad guy, or the spoiler, quickly can become all there is to achieve.

Such was the case with the trio of Republicans leaving the 14th Congressional District race within the past week. In the course of five days, a field of five Republicans looking to unseat Democrat Bill Foster became a two-man contest.

Jim Purcell, Mark Vargas and Jeff Danklefsen all dropped out with about the same amount of campaign funds they had when they entered the contest. That amounted to little more than what they had in their own pockets.

The two left standing - Ethan Hastert and Randy Hultgren - already are well into six figures with their fundraising.

* 14th District comes down to two-man GOP race

* AFL-CIO endorses Hirner over candidate from Peoria area

* Green Party hopeful in 10th District arrested

- posted by Rich Miller

7 Comments

- Will County Woman - Thursday, Dec 10, 09 @ 12:01 pm:
alexi g. got the endorsement but not cheryle jackson, huh? is she going to ride this thing out , or will she pull out beforre feb 2nd?

the increased name recognition and exposure of an also-ran has enough value, i suppose. but, i feel sorry for her supporters or anyone who has taken her seriously.

- wordslinger - Thursday, Dec 10, 09 @ 12:24 pm:
I give Edgar points for stepping out for Coulson. A true conservative, he never got rattled by the howling-at-the-moon right.

- Obamarama - Thursday, Dec 10, 09 @ 12:26 pm:
Wait a minute. After EMILY’s list backs Cheryle Planned Parenthood backs Alexi over her? Give it up, Cheryle. You and your camp are in way over your heads.

- shore - Thursday, Dec 10, 09 @ 1:01 pm:
Dear Jim Edgar,

While the faithful appreciates your public service that ended 12 years ago, we are really not thrilled that you have decided to reemerge this year to stunt the revival of the party. As you know we’ve had our ends handed to us for 8 years while you’ve been nowhere to be found and while we value your opinion we think the best way to move forward is to have the candidates fight it out themselves.

If during the last decade in the wilderness you had taken an active role in doing something to lead us out of it we’d welcome your opinion, but since you haven’t we are really not interested in having you come in and try to force us to maintain the status quo that has served the party and us so terribly the last 8 years.

Thanks,
A grassroots grunt

- William - Thursday, Dec 10, 09 @ 2:02 pm:
David Hoffman also got endorsed by the New Trier Dems. I think it is because both him and Seals are against the troop increase in Afghanistan unlike Hamos and Giannoulias. This was a courageous move by Hoffman and Seals! I hope they both can be victorious in their competitive primaries.

- T.J. - Thursday, Dec 10, 09 @ 4:23 pm:
What will the public ever do without the wise counsel of Jim Edgar?

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