Rep. Deb Mell may be off re-election ballot

According to Greg Hinz, State Rep. Deb Mell "may have screwed up her nominating petitions, with a real risk that she'll be knocked off the February Democratic primary ballot.

Seems "a challenge filed Monday afternoon by an attorney for Joseph Laiacona, the only other remaining candidate in the 40th District race, contends that Ms. Mell is not registered to vote at her apparently new address. By law, all candidates are supposed to be registered at the address they use for their nominating petitions."

Mell is the sister-in-law of Rod Blagojevich and the daughter of powerful Ald. Richard Mell. More here.

Comments

[Ghost of John Brown]

Undoubtedly, the evil forced that came together to oppose Rod Blagojevich because of his tireless work for the people are now conspiring against his sister-in-law. It's all Mike Madigan's fault.

(tongue firmly implanted in cheek)

[spintreebob]

If city election board employees are as incompetent as Crook County Clerk employees, it might be that she is registered and the incompetent employees messed up.

Furthermore, if everyone knows that the place is filled with incompetents, then we should not be surprised if (for the right pay-to-play consideration) the mis-placed registration miracously appears.

As Dan might say, this can be fixed.

[Democracy In Action]

Mark Rhoads is so afraid me calling out his half-baked, pseudo-intellectual nonsense about President Obama and embarrassing him that he's closed off comments to his newest paranoid Marxist rant. See http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2009/11/barack-obamas-left-wing-superstitions.html

So tell me Mr. Rhoads; how is the President a radical? And you still haven't answered my other question; what does freedom mean to you?

Mark really wants to scare you into thinking President Obama is some kind of evil marxist boogeyman whose true radical motives are to enslave America in a Soviet style planned economy. How crazy is that? Pernicious nonsense.

His ideas are radical? What's so radical about making sure that every American has some access to the health care system? That you don't have to go bankrupt or die just because you aren't rich.

No country can be strong whose people are sick or spending their time jumping through hoops to find adequate medical coverage, if they can get it all because of a pre-existing condition. This is a matter of national security. Heck, Harry Truman(that damned Commie!) was trying to enact a universal health care system in the 1940's! Radical guy that Truman.

"The irony of such radicals is that they always thought of themselves as on the cutting edge of the future, when in truth their ideas would turn back the clock to the middle ages when many people worked as serfs whose labor belonged not to themselves but to their feudal lords who ruled them." Mark Rhoads

Why in God's name do we get our health care from our employers (if they are feeling generous enough to give it to us; mine doesn't). Because the GOVERNMENT gives them tax breaks to do it! Why else would they give you medical?

Now when I go out and buy my own health insurance I get NO tax break. None. It's all after tax dollars. So the government is helping the companies make you "as serfs whose labor belonged not to themselves but to their feudal lords who ruled them." I.e. your corporate masters. Why should a corporation get a tax break for an employee benefit?

Ask a Brit or a Canadian if they feel like, "serfs whose labor belonged not to themselves but to their feudal lords who ruled them." When I was overseas I asked Canadians, Brits and a few Germans about how they felt about their health care system. I never heard them complain like Americans do. Actually, they can't understand why we labor under such an antiquated, messy, health care system.

Honestly, they think we are backwards. Go ask one. Try an experiment, go to a random chat room somewhere on the web and ask a Canadian if they get good health care. You'd be surprised.

So Mr. Rhoads never actually states how President Obama is a "radical" he just paints him with that brush to scare you. Just like Stalin knew, if you repeat the same lie enough people start to believe it. I assumed that universal health care would have been on Mr. Rhoads short list of radical ideas.

BTW, those scary Fabians? They purposed radical ideas in the early part of the last century like..., prepare yourselves, a minimum wage. They basically laid the groundwork for the Labour Party, now in power in Britian. George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells were Fabians. Scary guys.