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Monday, March 27, 2006

THE "MEEKS" ARE NOT INHERITING THE EARTH ANYTIME SOON

Rev. James Meeks says he's considering running for Governor as and Indy or some kind of minority party. I never thought he was an advanced a whack job but I'm now about convinced. The same thing happened in '90. All it did was cost our friend, Neil Hartigan, the governorship. It gave us 8 years of Jim Edgar and his heart surgery. As with most Republicans, heart surgery was microsurgery. If inner city people want friends in Springfield, they don't advance their cause by siphoning off democratic votes in Chicago. Pastor Meeks, get hold of yourself! You're a smart man trying to build a cult of personality. This idea is a hair ball to coughed up, spit out and discarded.

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At 6:08 AM, March 28, 2006, Anonymous said...: "As with most Republicans, heart surgery was microsurgery."

yet you continue to support thier endeavors. Tell Bockhold, McGlaughlin, Baum, Snider, and Heidbreder hello.
At 6:56 AM, March 28, 2006, UMRBlog said...: Anon 808,

Man! You guys just can't let go of a theme you like,whether it has any basis in fact or not. Why don't you begin by showing me this fabled photograph of me with these fellows. It must exist because internet posters say it's so, yet nobody has ever produced it.

Once again--and this time, please try to follow the bouncing ball--I went to all the organization and planning meetings the Volm campaign had. Never, not once, was there a republican there. I couldn't pull Baum out of a photolineup. Haven't seen Snider in about three years. Saw Bockhold across the room at a social event but didn't talk to him. McGlaughlin and I go to church together so I see him periodically. Heidbreder happens to be one of my best friends but we surely weren't talking about politics during this period. We were grieving the loss of one of our mutual best friends. In fact, the only conversation we had about primary voting happened on the evening of March 17. Some of his friends were giving him grief about not crossing over and I defended him, saying it wasn't appropriate for an elected official of a party to vote in the other party's primary.

So you can pound this cutesy little theme to death. But to do so, you must comprehensively ignore the facts. The fact of the matter is, I worked this campaign exclusively with democrats (worked it pretty well, too!). That some GOP showed up on Hampshire Street was a good thing. What were the folks there supposed to do, throw them out?

Here's the better question: why were there so few democrat officeholders, chairmen and former chairmen there to congratulate our party's new standard-bearer?

I'm tired of cutesy theme's supported by nothing. Stick this one where the sun doesn't shine.

But I do thank you for writing, however simple-minded your submission may have been.
At 7:10 AM, March 28, 2006, Anonymous said...: " I worked this campaign exclusively with democrats"

The same so-called Democrats that supported Dave Nuessen? The same so-called Democrats that have recently sponsered Jon McCoy into the Eagles? Isn't he running against your supposed friend? These are not Democrats.

Reality find it!
At 10:17 AM, March 28, 2006, Anonymous said...: Tony, what do you think about Evans retiring? Who will you think your nominee will be?
At 10:23 AM, March 28, 2006, UMRBlog said...: Anon 910

Interesting how you reveal yourself. You will not support Democrat Volm in the fall but you still get to decide who the "True Democrats" are.

Your truth is the only truth. That's called "intolerance" or "narrowness," take your choice.

I really don't keep up with who joins what fraternal organization. If you do, they have some fine medicines these days for obsessive/compulsive disorder. They have also found that having a hobby is therapeutic as well. Perhaps you could start a stamp collection or raise tropical fish.

Finally, for the 88th time, I don't pick candidates on the basis of whether they are supported by jocks, geeks, bloods or crips. I try to pick them in primaries based upon merit. That having been done, I then try to work with the people who have made the same choice. Sometimes that puts me against some of my dearest friends (See, e.g. Duesterhaus rather than Bonansinga, Hagstrom rather than Awerkamp, Wear rather than Middendorf, just to name a few.). It happens in primaries. Most people are mature enough not to nurse a grudge. Others, like you, keep relitigating the election past.

I truly appreciate your stopping by but I hope you soon see that your disdain for one particular family is just making you less. Please put it behind you and elect the whole democrat slate in the fall. That will only happen if we're unified.
At 11:00 AM, March 28, 2006, Anonymous said...: Tony, you misread my statement. I'm a Republican, I meant who do you think your party will out against Zinga. Sorry for the confusion...
At 11:02 AM, March 28, 2006, UMRBlog said...: Of course, I support Lane Evans until the last dog dies.

As a practical matter, if Lane really can't go, it should be someone from the Quad Cities with proven election ability and a veteran.

Until someone like that comes out, I am supporting my precinct committeeman for Congress just because she'd make such a nice counterpoint to the Wicked Witch of the North, Version 2.0.

Thanks for stopping by.
At 11:17 AM, March 28, 2006, UMRBlog said...: Inquiring Republican,

I think the Dem Candidate will be a young lawyer from a political family who is married to a girl from Quincy from a family with political ties. If it is who I think it will be, it will be a turkey roast and Zinga will be ther Turkey.
At 11:41 AM, March 28, 2006, Anonymous said...: "I really don't keep up with who joins what fraternal organization. If you do, they have some fine medicines these days for obsessive/compulsive disorder."

Maybe you should keep your ears a little closer to the ground before you decide to try to play god with other peoples lives. It only makes you look smaller in peoples eyes when you make a decision without all the information.
At 1:24 PM, March 28, 2006, UMRBlog said...: Obs/Comp.141

Geez! You count the ceiling tiles, too? Keep "my ear to the ground.." so I know who joins the Eagles/Elks/Moose/Wooly Worms? Please, Get some perspective!

The plural of "people" is "people's." I really don't give much of a rip about generic "people's" opinion of me, bigger or smaller. I'll leave it to you to discuss that with your bartender or therapist, your call. I do give a rip about my friends and colleagues but they usually don't require me to have an update on the new membership list of the Mystic Knights of the Sea.

What decision are you discussing? If you are discussing my decision whom to support, we have to look back about Thanksgiving time '05. I was around Carperites every day. They had ample opportunity to tell me all the compelling reasons EC should have been our nominee. Not a word. So I asked. Most sophisticated answer I got was "He's a good guy, helped us put up signs. She's a b!tch." This was from his supporters and that's all they could give me. What the hell was I supposed to do, commission a background investigation?

So thank you for stopping by and you're welcome back but maybe you should go back to scouting the pledge list for the Grand Possum lodge Fraternal Club and let me know if Bob Nall shows up on it.

For anyone reading along, I would prefer to discuss matters with commentators with more respect but when this shallow a thinker tells me how out of touch I am, you'll kindly pardon me if I respond in kind
At 1:27 PM, March 28, 2006, UMRBlog said...: Hey Anon 808:

It's about the photo...has it turned up yet?
At 8:43 PM, March 28, 2006, UMRBlog said...: Anon 808,

I have reviewed my repsonse to you and am sincerely sorry I called it "simple-minded". It was not nearly well enough thought out to rise to that high a level. I was in a hurry and lost my head. I'll do better next time.

But we do thank you for stopping by. We need all sides of the bell-shaped curve represented.

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