Far be it for me to give advice to the Republican Party, whose candidates I’ve not voted for since my Disco-dancing days back in the late `70s. But, Republicans, if you want to win an election or two in Illinois, you might want to find a new boogieman with whom to scare voters. Cause clearly […]
Tag: Peter Roskam
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Joravsky’s election predictions—going where the New York Times is too scared to venture
Ben Joravsky offers predictions for the 2018 midterm elections—including those for both houses of Congress.
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Who’s that speaking for the Sun-Times this time?
The legacy of the Sun-Times—what’s that?
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This November suburban voters have the chance to dump Trump’s enablers
Get rid of rubber-stampers Roskam, Hultgren, and Kinzinger and stun the nation!
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Join Blue Beginning as it sends the Democratic troops into the collar counties
Part of Indivisible Chicago, the organization is a get-out-the-vote campaign focused on Republican-leaning suburbs and municipalities as well neighboring swing states.
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Assault weapons used to be illegal. What happened?
Why did the U.S. government remove its ban on assault rifles?
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Property tax madness!
Homeowners’ rush to avoid losing money on the new Republican tax law is just the latest sign that the system for funding public education remains broken.
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Amid the horror of Trump and Rauner, there’s some reason for hope
Next year can’t possibly be worse, can it?
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In firing Comey, Trump pulls a Nixon—again
By sacking Comey, Trump shows a defiance of FBI investigators that even Nixon didn’t dare.
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DuPage Democrats have a chance to unseat Roskam, Trump’s health-care rubber-stamper
The Sixth District congressman could be vulnerable in his 2018 reelection bid.
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Four former cops turned aldermen push for police access to assault rifles, and other Chicago news
Also, Heineken acquires the rest of Lagunitas Brewing Co.
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Rauner doesn’t think the GOP’s Obamacare replacement plan will work in Illinois, and other Chicago news
Also, the Chicago Jewish Day School was evacuated because of a bomb threat.
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These Illinois elected officials tried to ban assault rifles like the one used by Omar Mateen
The U.S. had an assault weapons ban: What happened?
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The latest from the NRCC and the DCCC: I read it but you don’t have to
Mindless drivel from America’s two great political parties
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Akins in our midst?
Some Illinois politicians act a lot like Todd Akin on sex and abortion issues