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IL-14: Election Today

Permalink :: 7 Comments Tags: il-14, bill foster, jim oberweis all tags Why Caucuses Suck by Todd Beeton, Sat Mar 08, 2008 at 03:46:46 PM EST Some huge turnout in Wyoming today. This is how Fox News reported the situation at the Cheyenne Civic Center: Overwhelming, out of control and lines around the block. Those are all words that have been used to describe turnout. At the Cheyenne Civic Center, they were planning for 500, they got 2000. So, good right? Well, not for everyone. They
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Foster airs TV ad featuring Obama - Chicago Tribune

That&39s when you can vote to send Bill Foster to Congress,&quot Obama tells voters in the ad. Find your ward and the members of the Chicago City Council. …
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If You??re In The 14th - Vote For Bill Foster

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Democrat Bill Foster, Republican Jim Oberweis - Elburn Herald

Voters will choose between candidates Bill Foster and Jim Oberweis to serve the remaining year of the current 4-year term. Voters will again choose between …
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Anti-War Judge Won??t Allow Foster Child to Join Marines

Anti-War Judge Won??t Allow Foster Child to Join Marines Children??s Court Commissioner Marilyn Mackel of Simi Valley, California is against our actions in Iraq. With that said, this activist judge felt she had the right to prevent a foster child under her jurisdiction from joining the Marines. This refusal is an obscene abuse of power based solely on her hatred for the U.S. military. And she??s done this before. The L.A. Daily News gives us the outrageous story of young Shawn Sage, a foster chi
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IL-14: Pre-Results Thread

Polls in the 14th District close in a half hour. Here is an on-the-ground update from Prairie State Blue: The scientist and engineer activists are out in full effect, including current and former Fermilab scientists and support staff and academic colleagues of Bill’s. There are several people here from around the country who went to grad school with Bill and are incredibly excited about his campaign. Labor is on board with folks from IUPAT, SEIU, AFSCME, IBEW, and Letter Carriers everywhere
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GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - March 8, 2008

GOPUSA ILLINOIS — BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS: Combine directives to the Illinois news media: 1. Promote Foster’s charges against Oberweis. 2. Downplay, if not cover up, anything negative about Foster. - Dave Diersen www.gopillinois.com DIERSEN QUESTIONS: What percentage of 14th Congressional District voters learned from the Illinois news media about Foster’s charges against Oberweis? What percentage of 14th Congressional District voters learned from the Illinois news media that during divorce proceedin
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Foster/Oberweis slime war only half over - Change of Subject - Chicago Tribune Blog

There&39s great joy throughout the region this weekend that the relentlessly negative campaign battle between Democrat Bill Foster and Republican Jim Oberweis …Oberweis, Foster Attacks Grow As Election Approaches NBC5.com
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IL-14: Election Today

Turnout in the special election in IL-14, in which Democrat Bill Foster is fighting to serve out the term of former Speaker Dennis Hastert, was expected to be relatively light today: Like a typical election, polls are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Kane County Clerk Jack Cunningham said he does not expect more than 20 percent of registered to voters to come to the polls. About 40 percent turned out for last month’s primary. Officials say that means they expect far fewer than the 197,000 voters wh
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Open Thread

Permalink :: 8 Comments Tags: Open Thread all tags IL-14: Election Today by Todd Beeton, Sat Mar 08, 2008 at 04:22:07 PM EST Turnout in the special election in IL-14, in which Democrat Bill Foster is fighting to serve out the term of former Speaker Dennis Hastert, was expected to be relatively light today: Like a typical election, polls are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Kane County Clerk Jack Cunningham said he does not expect more than 20 percent of registered to voters to come to the p
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Partial recount sought in February vote - Kane County Chronicle

By ERIC SCHELKOPF - eschelkopfkcchronicle.com GENEVA ?? With 398 votes separating Democrat John Laesch from Bill Foster in last month??s general primary for …Laesch asks for recount in Democratic primary The Courier News
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More On Miss Jones

For my friends across the pond: Earlier this week, The NY Times reported that a highly anticipated memoir about street life and drugs on the streets of South Central L.A. was a fraud. The publisher has recalled all the books, and Margaret &quotPeggy&quot Seltzer –who published Love and Consequences as Margaret B. Jones, admitted that it was all made up. Seltzer is in fact, the product of a well to do family in the San Fernando Valley who sent their daughter to a private Episcopalian prep school and lat
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Anti-War Judge Won??t Allow Foster Child to Join Marines

-By Warner Todd Huston Children??s Court Commissioner Marilyn Mackel of Simi Valley, California is against our actions in Iraq. With that said, this activist judge felt she had the right to prevent a foster child under her jurisdiction from joining the Marines. This refusal is an obscene abuse of power based solely on her hatred for the U.S. military. And she??s done this before. The L.A. Daily News gives us the outrageous story of young Shawn Sage, a foster child, who appeared before judge Mac
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Race to replace Hastert is in national spotlight - Chicago Tribune

For Republican Jim Oberweis of Sugar Grove and Democrat Bill Foster of Geneva, victory in this weekend&39s special election is just the first game of a …Rookie Congressman to Fill Hastert Seat The Associated Press
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IL-14 Results Thread

Permalink :: 1 Comment Tags: il-14, bill foster, jim oberweis all tags Is It A Problem If The Democratic Primary Goes To The Convention? by J Ro, Sat Mar 08, 2008 at 06:56:23 PM EST The Democratic primary season continues on without a nominee in sight, while Republicans have a nominee in John McCain. Most people I’ve talked to are split on whether a long primary season for the Democrats will hurt the eventual nominee’s chances in the general. On the one hand, there are those that beli
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IL-14 At Stake Today

IL-14 At Stake Today Author: Sam 8 Mar Today is the special election for Hastert??s former House seat in Illinois and the race has been polling neck and neck. This should be an easy GOP hold, but the Democrat, Bill Foster, has campaigned hard and I have heard grumblings from Republicans on other Web sites of some dissatisfaction with our candidate, Jim Oberweis, over an alleged incident of him employing illegal immigrants at his dairy farm and paying wages slightly over 3 an hour. Ober
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Geeks rule!

This warmed my heart: The scientist and engineer activists are out in full effect, including current and former Fermilab scientists and support staff and academic colleagues of Bill??s. There are several people here from around the country who went to grad school with Bill and are incredibly excited about his campaign. Some background: in Illinois today IL-14, voters will select the replacement for former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. IL-14 is a solid red district, and this election w
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It’s a propaganda film! Pharyngula

It’s quite clear what the purpose of Ben Stein’s Expelled movie is ?? notice what they’ve been doing with it. They’ve been shopping it around at screenings that are filtered to keep knowledgeable people out they’re planning to pay students to attend they’re relying on the Big Lie to promote the movie and of course, they had to misrepresent themselves to get interviews. But now they’ve really done it: they are going to give Florida legislators, sponsored by a representative who has filed one
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IL-14: Foster/Oberweis Thread

IL-14: Foster/Oberweis Thread by BooMan Sat Mar 8th, 2008 at 08:07:52 PM EST The polls have just closed in Illinois’ 14th District. There was a special election to fill the vacancy created when former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert abruptly retired last year. Bill Foster is the Democrat and he is good friends with Rep. Patrick Murphy PA-08, and will likely be a similar Democrat. Although he is likely to caucus with the Bush Dogs, he is no BushDog. Some polls have shown Foster running
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IL-14: Results Thread 1

Polls have closed in IL-14. Will the brainy Democrat Bill Foster pull an upset in this Republican district? Or will fear-mongering Republican Jim Oberweis convince residents to vote against their interests? 0 of 568 Precincts Reporting Bill Foster D: 0 Jim Oberweis R: 0 Also, check out dmsilev’s liveblog here. Update: Turnout was higher than expected for a Saturday special election: In Kane County, home to more than 50 percent of the district’s voters, election officials repor
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How Bad Off Is The GOP This Year? We will Learn A Lot Today

There is special election today in Illinois to replace Denny Hastert, former GOP Speaker of the House. The election will be a signal as to how the GOP is doing this year, and so far it has looked bleak as a very conservative district has turned very competitive: Democrat Bill Foster and Republican Jim Oberweis are virtually deadlocked in what should be a solidly Republican district in the northern Illinois exurbs, according to polls and political observers. In the past few days, two independ
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Oberweis, Foster debate as vote nears - Chicago Sun-Times

BY MITCH DUDEK Staff Reporter/mdudeksuntimes.com Republican businessman Jim Oberweis ripped his scientist opponent Bill Foster as a man who understands the …
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He Wants to Serve His Country, But An Idiot Anti-War Judge Won’t Let Him

Some of these anti-war types are so detestable, but this idiot judge Marilyn Mackel deserves a special award for her sanctimoniously smug attitude. Here you have a kid begging to serve his country, but since the judge obviously hates the military, his dream is being denied. For now.SIMI VALLEY - Shawn Sage long dreamed of joining the military, and watching &quotFull Metal Jacket&quot last year really sold him on becoming a Marine. But last fall, a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner dashed th
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Rookie congressman to fill Hastert seat

AP - Voters in former House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s district will choose a new congressman in a special election Saturday, but there’s one thing they won’t replace: his clout. Hastert funneled millions of dollars to the district during his 21 years in Washington, but his retirement means his seat will go to either Democrat Bill Foster or Republican Jim Oberweis ?? two wealthy businessmen with no seniority on Capitol Hill. &quotThat’s something he Hastert had to earn. It will be a learning curve
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It’s a propaganda film!

It’s quite clear what the purpose of Ben Stein’s Expelled movie is ?? notice what they’ve been doing with it. They’ve been shopping it around at screenings that are filtered to keep knowledgeable people out they’re planning to pay students to attend they’re relying on the Big Lie to promote the movie and of course, they had to misrepresent themselves to get interviews. But now they’ve really done it: they are going to give Florida legislators, sponsored by a representative who has filed one
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IL-14: Republicans Pouring Money and Effort Into Keeping Hastert’s Seat

The race is a dead heat in IL-14, and Representative Tom Cole — whose job as head of the NRCC reportedly hinges on tonight’s results — is already spinning a possible loss: As the first general election of the year, the race is being described by some as a harbinger of November and a proxy fight between Republican presidential nominee John McCain, who has endorsed Oberweis, and Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama, who has endorsed Foster. It is a description shunned by both na
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Progressive Democrat Issue 157 - Political Cortex

This was Dennis Hastert&39s seat, and it is neck and neck for Bill Foster and the Republican candidate. A win for Bill Foster would be a HUGE deal, …Today on the Presidential Campaign Trail The Associated Press
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Bill sets deadline to move kids out of foster-care limbo - Seattle Times

Under House Bill 3205, the state would be required to file legal papers to terminate parental rights if a child has been in foster care for 15 of the last …
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Dairy, Democrats trade complaints - Kane County Chronicle

… after Oberweis Dairy Inc. filed a lawsuit against the committee, alleging that ads in support of Democrat Bill Foster smeared the dairy??s reputation. …Negative ads, lawsuits mark end of 14th district race ABC7Chicago.com
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Democrats reporting irregularities in 14th District voting machines - Chicago Daily Herald

… morning today during the 14th District special election in which Republican Jim Oberweis faces Democrat Bill Foster to replace retiring Dennis Hastert. …Threats reported this week at West Chicago high school Kane County Chronicle
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