NoMoreHacks in Illinois
Illinois Democrats have forced our hand. As shocked as we all were last week by the brazen corruption charges against Governor Rod Blagojevich, it took only a few days for the Chicago Machine to kick back into craven gear.
After virtually every Democrat in Illinois, including Barack Obama, opined last week that a special election to fill Obama’s senate seat was necessary to remove the taint of a selection by Blagojevich or his chief enabler, Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn, today, they all reversed course.
One by one, Quinn, Obama, Blagojevich campaign co-chairman and House Speaker Mike Madigan, Senate President Emil Jones, all shut the people down. In essence they said the hacks had regrouped and will select one of them to give the state of Illinois another dose of astoundingly bad government.
We’ve had enough. We are going to take a stand, at ground zero of Democratic corruption in the USA, headquarters of Obama’s make believe Office of the President Elect, against the real time looting of one of our largest states. Just remember, Obama is importing the operation to the federal government, led by his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who, it was reported today, might be on tape 15 or more times talking to the Blagojevich administration about the senate seat.
We are forming NoMoreHacks, a grass roots movement that demands a special election now in Illinois.
Our call to action:
1. Send any donation you can to the Illinois Republican Party, which has taken the lead against the hackery in Illinois with a great TV ad and a website, FriendsofBlago.com, that explains the connections of Illinois Democrats to the Blagojevich scandal. The state party has never had the funding to run such an ad before and needs cash to keep it going. Let’s keep the TV ads coming so we can pressure state lawmakers to do the right thing.
2. Spread the word far and wide about NoMoreHacks so we can demonstrate the power and reach of those who believe government should not be for sale in America.
3. We’ve started a Twitter hashtag #nmh.
Here is the latest ad that needs to be keept on the air so pressure is applied to Illinois Democrats and remind voters of how spinless the Democratic Party leaders are in Illinois……..
Could we?
Warner Todd Huston Wednesday, December 17th at 5:33AM EST (link)Could we FINALLY get some funding from the national party with such a movement? With good reason, the national GOP establishment has been loath to direct money to this state. Up until this incident, there was no reason to bother with the ILL. GOP.
But, will this finally give the national party a reason to shovel some money Illinois’ way?
Well, I’d say yes ONLY of the Ill. GOP gets its act together. Stop being so feckless and fractious and take this Blago mess and finally get a message the people could grasp and appreciate.
So, let’s get going Ill. GOP. If you play your cards right, I might even decide to join back up with ya’all!
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Giving to the IL GOP seems to be a...
Jeff Emanuel Wednesday, December 17th at 12:30PM EST (link)…worse investment than purchasing a boatload of GM stock, based on their recent performance
JE
Good diary.
itrytobenice Thursday, December 18th at 8:26AM EST (link)But you should know two things:
1. First, the rest of us don’t think the vast majority of the Rs in IL are much better (or at least not enough better to make them good). I’m sure there are some good people us there, but we’re not sure there are enough to save Sodom and Gomorrah.
2. We have all taken a vow not to recommend a diary if the author recommends his own. You were probably not here when this became an issue, but it’s not expected for anyone to recommend themselves. We just assume you like it or else you wouldn’t have written it.
The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?