19 Oct 2004

Desperate Democrats Throw Mud in Supreme-Court Race

By Rich Miller

This is an election. It is not a meeting of a Sunday School class," Illinois State Bar Association President Ole Bly Pace told the Associated Press this week.

Pace was referring to the Fifth District Supreme Court race as he made what could be the political understatement of the year.

12 Oct 2004

Can Lieutenant Governor Keep His Silence for Two More Years?

By Rich Miller

Illinois Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn was threatened with political "divorce" not long ago by Governor Rod Blagojevich's office.

Quinn has been a critic of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority for years, but he was completely cut out of the governor's massive restructuring and reform plan.

05 Oct 2004

The Hottest Race in Illinois? For the Supreme Court

By Rich Miller

This year's only Illinois Supreme Court race is just about the hottest political thing going.

The Fifth District race pits appellate justice Gordon Maag (D-Glen Carbon) against trial judge Lloyd Karmeier (R-Nashville).

28 Sep 2004

No Easy Answers for Statehouse Security

By Rich Miller

Up until last week the Statehouse had been one of the safest places in Illinois. No one had ever been killed there in its entire history. And then some unbalanced kid stops taking his meds and all hell breaks loose.

21 Sep 2004

Appointed Incumbent Gets a Big Break in Key House Race

By Rich Miller

It's endorsement season in Illinois politics, a time of high anxiety for candidates who are already involved up to their eyeballs in stressful campaigns.

Missing out on a key interest-group endorsement can sometimes devastate a campaign.

14 Sep 2004

Searching for Intelligent Life on Other (Politicians') Planets

By Administrator

Over the last few weeks it's become clear that Alan Keyes lives in his own little world. And it's a pretty odd planet at that.

In Keyes' version of reality, pro-choicers are like terrorist sympathizers, his Democratic opponent Barack Obama has a "slaveholder mentality," and Jesus would never even consider voting for Obama.

07 Sep 2004

Keyes Keeps Looking Worse

By Rich Miller

As if Alan Keyes wasn't embarrassing enough, with his hours-long diatribes that say almost nothing of interest to anyone in Illinois except a handful of zealots. No. He's gotta go off and verbally slime the vice president's daughter.

31 Aug 2004

Ridiculous Irony Abounds in Illinois Supreme-Court Race

By Rich Miller

A top advisor to an Illinois Supreme Court candidate who wants to end the lawsuit "crisis" has filed suit against two men who champion the rights of people who file lawsuits.

Enough irony for you? There's more.

24 Aug 2004

Illinois Republicans Get Ready for a Whupping

By Rich Miller

It's probably not a good sign that at least two prominent speakers at the state fair's Republican Day event last week felt it was necessary to insist that the Illinois Republican Party is not dead.

Other speakers worked hard to reinforce the not-dead theme by helpfully pointing out several possible signs of life.

17 Aug 2004

Obama Needs to Keep an Eye on Keyes

By Rich Miller

Word from on-high is that the national Senate Republicans are planning to contribute lots of money to Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes.

It's not that the national poobahs actually believe Keyes can win, mind you.

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