That would be my advice to the Bill Brady for Governor campaign. If you want to assure your victory, then pour money downstate to get even higher percentages from there than you otherwise would get.
In 2006, Topinka would have beaten Blago sans Crook County.
Latest polls out. For Senate, Mark Jerk has a 37-33 lead over Alexi What’s-His-Face, though an astounding 30% of respondents say they’re undecided. And I don’t blame them. I’m not so undecided: I’ve decided not to vote for either one.
For Governor, Bill Brady has a 45-35 lead over incumbent Pat Quinn. (BTW, Quinn picked one of Paul Simon’s daughters as the replacement running mate). The whole rap on Brady was that he was from downstate and therefore not well enough known to win statewide, yet he’s almost at 50% in the polls, far closer to it than Mark Jerk, and has a far bigger lead over his Democrat opponent than does Jerk. And only 20% of respondents for Governor are undecided; half as many more are undecided over in the Senate race. However, I’m also not so undecided here — For the first time in a very long time, I’ll wholeheartedly be able to make an endorsement for Illinois voters (of which I’ll be one in November) without any reservations or regrets. Brady/Plummer all the way. The last time I was so cock-sure about something in Illinois was Glenn Poshard for Governor in 1998 — He lost, and the man he lost to, George Ryan, eventually proved my cock-suredness.
UPDATE 5 PM: I forgot to mention that Poshard was/is a Democrat, so Brady is the first Illinois Republican ever that I can wholeheartedly endorse. And here’s this little cutie from the P-D to remind me why: Former Governor Jim Edgar, Republican, endorses current Gov. Quinn’s income tax increase proposals, and pwns Brady in the process. I guess I’m the only human being in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area who has any memory — In 1994, Edgar had already been Governor for one term, and was running for a second term. His Democrat opponent that year was one Dawn Clark Netsch, who beat Roland Burris in the D-Gov Primary, incidentally. Netsch openly proposed to raise the state income tax rate from 3% (where it still is) to 4.25%, and give lower income taxpayers a rebate when they file their tax returns, to nullify the extra withholding for them, such that the increased rate would have only applied to higher income earners. Edgar ripped her a new one, and obviously won. Later on in his second term, he proposed the exact same thing that he ripped mercilessly just a few years prior. And now, he continues to endorse income tax hikes, and then whines about the Republican nominee for Governor who is campaigning in 2010 the same way he did in 1994. Jim Edgar: Two-faced hypocrite.
Not the next Governor of Illinois
Bill Brady has been certified as the winner of the GOP Primary for Governor. Since his margin of victory over Kirk Dullard was more than 100 votes, there will be no recount.
Now the race is between Bill Brady and Pat Quinn, or rather, Brady vs Quinn. Not involved is Cleveland Browns starting QB Brady Quinn.
Going downballot for just a moment, a caller to Rush’s show posited an interesting theory yesterday, that the outward perception of a feud between President Obama and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is all a manufactured excuse to justify Rahm running for the U.S. Senate seat from IL this year. In other words, Alexi Giannoulias is such damaged goods that the State Democraps would make him an “offer he can’t refuse,” then slide Rahm in his place to take on Mark Jerk. It makes sense, because Rahm said that he put on hold his dream to be the first Jewish Speaker of the U.S. House when Obama asked him to be CoS. However, since there’s a good chance that the Democrats won’t even hold onto the House after November, Rahm might think that that’s a lost cause, and settle for a Senate seat. One problem with that theory is this: Is Rahm really that much more electable on a statewide basis (even in Illinois) than AlexiG? I don’t think so, and it would be even worse for Rahm’s case this year b/c of the wind to the Republicans’ back.
Halleljuah, there’s someone in Illinois worth voting for in a general election. I know, it doesn’t happen often, or easily.
As of this writing, State Sen. Bill Brady (R-Bloomington) has a narrow lead in a Republican Gubernatorial primary where five candidates got at least 100 kilovotes.
I would have voted for Adam What’s-His-Face, but Brady’s name seemed familiar to me for some reason. As it turns out, exactly 11 months ago today, Brady announced his campaign for Governor in Marion, which of course made the local news down there. I sorta forgot about him, but his positions seem to be rather decently conservative, nothing great, but nothing horrible, either. He’s for CCW.
And, most importantly, he’s in the lead right now over one of his Senate colleagues, Kirk Dullard, who hearts Obama.
What helps Brady’s cause immensely is that it looks like Pat Quinn is gonna eke out a win over Dan Hynes on the Democrat side. Quinn is far more beatable in November, mainly b/c of the pardon scandals. If both Brady and Quinn hold on to their leads, then Brady is as good as the next Governor. And he would be the only reason I would come out to vote in November if I’m living in Illinois, save the chance that I could have an interesting race downballot. I’m obviously gonna pass on Kirk vs AlexG, b/c I don’t like either one of them, and the Green Party is the only legit 3rd Party in the state.
Denny Hastert’s son lost in the R-primary in his bid to take his father’s place in IL-14. That was the district that Jim Oberweis tried and failed twice to win, between Hastert’s resignation and now.
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