Illinois Review

Beck creams Creamer's "Prison Plan"

The Glenn Beck segment earlier this week that aggravated Bob Creamer and Jan Schakowsky as mentioned in Thursday's Trib.

Liberal Creamer's list of 10 needs to pass universal health care

Acorncracked.com is featuring an audio tape of Jan Schakowsky's check-kiting, felonious husband Robert Creamer telling liberal activists in 2008 what is needed for a government takeover of health care in 2009. Five months in prison evidently doesn't disqualify Creamer from being a liberal Democratic leader and a guest at the White House. (Can convicted felons vote?) A quick listen will acquaint you with how the enemy thinks, and provide a insight with which to counter. Creamer's 2008 checklist in a nutshell were:

1. Elect a Democratic president and increase Democratic majority margins in both congressional houses
2. Make universal health care a national movement, led by the President
3. Reject conservative value premises when talking about health care
4. Appeal to the sense that the fight for universal health care is historical
5. Emphasize that health care is personal
6. Spend time going after principal adversary -- the insurance industry
7. Welcome allies that may not normally be on your side -- i.e. big businesses with huge legacy obligations they'd like to dump
8. Pressure for Republican support in Congress and the public
9. Invest a substantial amount into communicating the message on airwaves
10. Draw our enemies in by making them offer an alternative, then point out weaknesses

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IFRL endorses Rodriguez in the 8th CD

Among six Republicans vying for primary nomination in the 8th CD, Long Grove Village President Maria Rodriguez is the only woman, the only elected official and the only candidate in the race endorsed today by the Illinois Federation for Right to Life.

Rodriguez told Illinois Review she's honored to receive IFRL's support and points to her strong Catholic background as a key reason she holds such strong pro-life positions. "I'm not prolife because it's a political issue," she said via phone. "I've worked for St. Mary's Catholic Church in the liturgy, and my respect for human life is tied to my religious beliefs. I'm prolife, with no exceptions."

Questions about SEIU's Stern and Burger lobbying activities

Good for Americans for Tax Reform and the Alliance for Worker Freedom.  They are pushing for the Justice Department to investigate SEIU President Andy Stern's multiple visits to the White House over the first six months of Barack Obama's presidency.  Questions about Stern and SEIU Treasurer Anna Burger's SEIU-promoting efforts and the federally-funded ACORN's activities suggest they may have crossed the legality line, Examiner.com says: 

ATR has formerly submitted a request to acting United States Attorney Channing D. Phillip asking for a probe into the potentially illegal lobbying activities of SEIU Treasurer and Change to Win Chairwoman Anna Burger.

Attention, Catholics: Given to ACORN lately?

by Richard A. Viguerie

You probably think you've never given money to ACORN and its allies.  But if you've contributed to the annual November Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) appeal of the Catholic bishops, you've done just that.

Each November, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops asks Catholics across the United States to contribute to the CCHD.  Until last year, much of this money collected by the bishops' appeal was funneled directly to ACORN. 

Are you going to again let the bishops use your contributions - money that's intended for charity - to promote extreme left-wing causes such as taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand?

SEIU's Andy Stern's own words: "global unions"

We've been awfully hard on Andy Stern's SEIU/ACORN over the past couple of months, so here's a chance for him to give his side of the story - via CNBC - in his own words.

Bi-state Democratic dynasties bolstered by ACORN/SEIU

Illinois' neighbor just to the west, Missouri, has a powerful political dynasty similar to Illinois' Madigans, Hynes, Daleys or Berrios', that also depends on community activists and service employees to keep them in power. Today, the Missouri Republican Party lifted the veil on a growing political family scandal involving ACORN that could affect Missouri's 2010 U.S. Senate race and the Democrats' balance of power.

The Show Me state's Democrat royalty consists of the younger Carnahans -- Robin Carnahan, who is Missouri's secretary of state, now vying for the U.S. Senate in 2010 and Robin's brother Russ, a Congressman representing southern St. Louis County -- and their parents. 

Robin and Russ' mother Jean Carnahan was appointed to fill her husband Mel Carnahan's U.S. Senate seat, when he was killed in an airplane crash just weeks before the 2000 election. The Carnahan's son Randy, who was piloting the plane, was also killed. At the time, Mel Carnahan was finishing his second term as Missouri's governor.

SEIU objects to home health care worker election

Parents who breathed a sigh of relief last month, thinking they were rid of union thugs knocking on their doors and calling them at home shouldn't relax yet. 

SEIU is back. And with a vengeance.

SEIU's Andy Stern White House's most frequent visitor

When the White House released its list of visitors from January to July this year, several very familiar names showed up (more about that on IR later), but the SEIU's president Andy Stern topped the rest with 22 visits with Obama. 

Stern hyped up the crowd of protesters at the "Showdown in Chicago" against the American Bankers Association's annual meeting this week. Despite Stern's rhetoric, only a handful of banks represented at the conference were bailout recipients. The rest are struggling to stay afloat.  But you wouldn't know it by listening to the SEIU's national president. 

As produced by and featured on SEIU-funded liberal political blog Progress Illinois, the man who has the President's ear along with Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod and Michelle and Valerie Jarrett.

ACORN fights back

Invoking the name of Jesus Christ as a purpose for defending the scandalous extortion-like practices of ACORN and SEIU is indefensible.  Nevertheless, the left never sits down and turns the other cheek.  They always, always fight back, using whatever tools available to them.  The video below is Exhibit D of ACORN/SEIU's tactics. 

Other examples are this week's demonstration at the Chicago American Bankers Association annual meeting to demand small banks stop legal means to get loans paid back as well as SEIU/ACORN's pressure on Advocate Health Care services in 2004 to wipe clean unpaid medical bills are nothing but schemes to rile more and more hysterical and unfounded class envy and animosity.