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    <author><![CDATA[Ah Hah....]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[So that's how Bernie stole this particular election.
    
    It was amusing to see Stone complain about the 'invasion of privacy' issue, as in his protestations against anyone asking anyone who they voted for and what, if any, efforts or actions were brought to bear that 'influenced' their votes.
    
    How else does one determine if illegal vote frauds were committed, if not by investigating, as in asking relevant questions?
    
    But Bernie knows all this, his objections and allegations are the stuff made of crocodile tears.
    
    As phony a baloney as you'll find, though we are cursed with a substantial number of phony baloneys.
        
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      <![CDATA[gosh i hope all was not glum at the 50th club last nite
    
    don't worry about Anish, maybe he can make some kind of deal
        
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      <![CDATA[Precinct captain for Chicago Ald. Bernard Stone is charged with vote fraud in 2007 aldermanic election
    
    50th Ward official and student are charged in probe
    
    By Gary Washburn, Tribune reporter, January 29, 2008 
    
    A member of Ald. Bernard Stone's political organization who also serves as the 50th Ward's Streets and Sanitation Department superintendent was charged Monday following an investigation into alleged vote fraud in last year's aldermanic election.
    
    Anish Eapen, 37, of the 7500 block of North California Avenue, faces charges of official misconduct, absentee ballot fraud and mutilation of election materials, officials said.
    
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-50tharrestsjan29,0,2449097.story
        
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      <![CDATA[Ward superintendent charged with vote fraud
    
    January 29, 2008
    BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter
    
    A ward superintendent handpicked by the City Council&acirc;&#128;&#153;s 80-year-old elder statesman, Ald. Bernard Stone (50th), was arrested Monday and charged--along with another man--with improperly steering primarily Indian and Pakistani voters toward absentee ballots for Stone.
    
    http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/763753,eapencharge012808.article
        
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      <![CDATA[too bad about Anish, huh?
        
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      <![CDATA[This is very helpful information- thank you.
        
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      <![CDATA[Stone & Nocita are teaming up to overthrow a progressive power bloc? interesting strategy
    
    you guys must really be missing Noonan
        
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    <author><![CDATA[PATRONAGE HIRES ORGANIZED TO PRESERVE OUR JOBS]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[DOESN'T JAN REALIZE STONE IS THE POWER BOSS ON THE NORTH SIDE! HE HAS SENIORITY! SHE SHOULD WAIT HER TURN LIKE STONE DID! SHE WILL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO BE BOSS AFTER SHE IS 80!
        
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      <![CDATA[rallying discontent with Schakowsky to bail out Stone? good luck with that
    
    put your name on your support of Nocita, big boy, and let's met back here & discuss, Wed Feb 6
        
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      <![CDATA[whoa, try decaf, Allen
        
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    <author><![CDATA[STEANS  PART OF SCHAKOWSKY POWER GRAB]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[CONG. JAN SCHAKOWSKY,AKA MRS.ROBERT CREAMER(YES,THAT ROBERT CREAMER) IS MAKING A BID TO BECOME POLITICAL BOSS OF THE NORTH SIDE ,INCLUDING THE LAKEFRONT! STEANS IS HER PUPPET, AND SHE EVEN PREVAILED ON HER GOOD FRIEND SEN.CAROL RONEN TO STEP ASIDE,  IN ORDER FOR STEANS TO HAVE A SEAT FOR JAN TO BEQUETH HER!NORTH SIDE VOTERS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEND THE PROGRESSIVE "B0SS" A MESSAGE  RE: TALKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF HER MOUTH BY NOT ONLY VOTING FOR JOHN NOCITA  AGAINST HER FOR CONGRESS, BUT TO DEFEAT JAN FURTHER BY VOTING AGAINST HER STOOGES, STEANS AND SILVERSTEIN.
        
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      <![CDATA[I was surprised to read that Ms. Steans publicly denied the 750K spending figure. Looks like the Pioneer reporter only checked with the State Board of Elections. The State Board of Elections only monitors contributions on state and local candidates and committees. 
    
    I also think she missed the PAC money and only looked at individual contributions.
    
    If you check out the Federal Election Commission or the sites that report its data (like opensecrets.org) you will find 179K+ of contributions from Heather Steans that are NOT included in the Illinois State Board of Elections disclosures. I'm attaching a LIST.
    
    This list is interesting for 4 reasons. First, it adds nearly $180K more to the total spread around. Which I think is over $1Million in Illinois state campaign contributions. 
    
    Which makes the denial of the 750 K even more of a lie.
    
    Second -- And this is a separate story, it gives a chronology of Steans's actual occupation -- required for federal contributions but not for state ones -- that does not quite match the picture of "professional policy analyst."
    
    It looks like Ms. Steans's last fulltime job was at least 7 years, maybe a decade ago. Her "public school" experience the Trib touts was over a decade ago. 
    
    Most years since she variously lists herself as unemployed, a homemaker, "occupation/employer" being "n/a", or, in candor, saying she is a volunteer on boards. 
    
    Or, on good self-esteem days, a "philanthropist." And we all know what "consultant" means LOL.
    
    So, assuming she was honest when she filled out the forms you have to fill out when you make a federal contribution, she has been an unemployed homemaker since Bill Clinton left the White House. 
    
    I have nothing against homemakers, my mom was one. But my moms doesn't claim to be some economics and policy expert. All I'm say is it's not quite the fairytale her literature or the Tribune endorsement weaves.
    
    Third -- Weird how sometimes in a span of a few months, sometimes even a few days, she lists different employers/occupations. Sends one check, says one thing, then a little later, another check, says another. 
    
    Trying to make a trail harder to follow? Or just the fault of the recordkeeping of the recipient committee. It sorta looks like once a committee has you listed one way they tend to draw on that past data. 
    
    The employment history is also interesting when you match up the entries to the time period on the Illinois State Board of Elections sites where Leo Smith lists his position, for years, as a lobbyist or director of the Birth-to-5 PAC. But the PAC pays him no salary.
    
    So.... Heather didn't work. And Leo didn't bring home a paycheck. In fact, he was a major funder of the PAC. How do you do that when you have no income? To be fair, some of the PAC money was originally Irving Harris's as well.
    
    # 4 -- What is interesting is how these folks divvy up the campaign $$. Heather gives the high visibility federal bucks to good liberals. 
    
    She has Leo (they have a joint checking account she admits) do most of the giving to state candidates, but again mainly Dems. 
    
    When they want to give to Republicans on the downlow they use the PAC. It's a pretty clear division.
    
    Basically, it looks like neither of these folks have held what most folks would consider a real job in years. The only apparent source of income is Heather's family money (I hear Leo comes from a very middle-class background). 
    
    So life consists of going to board meetings and political fundraisers and having people fawn over you for writing checks that to them are big money but to you are chump change (except for the half-mil WBEZ donation, which is not a political contriution but probably more important than all the others combined, because it buys one's way into the hearts and minds of the media establishment and the liberals).
    
    Nice work, if you can get it!
    
    I am not saying being rich is not legit. Better they not work than take away a job from someone who needs it. And on the one hand, if you have the money and to choose to devote your time to pro bono activities, that's extremely cool. Our nonprofits depend on people like Steans doing that. But don't try and parlay that into some kind of amazing "professional background."
    
    But, if "to whom much is given, much is expected" has any meaning, at most Steans has done what is expected. She has had nothing but free time the entire time Bush has been President. 
    
    If she is such a policy godsend, and so devoted to the community, I'd like to see one paper she's published, one speech delivered outside a crowd of the well-heeled, one single letter to the editor on any issue. Anything that challenges the current system or power structure. Some might say it looks more like a decade of resume-padding and high-end palm-greasing, and a well-planned, long-incubated project.
    
    Best of luck to you.
    
    A friend
        
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      <![CDATA[Did you notice that Brookins Committe paid over $5000 to his law firm for rent.  I wonder if that is the same office space the firm is being evicted from for not paying rent to the landlord.
        
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      <![CDATA[How could Tom Allen take money for the corrupt racist munchkin Terry Teele?
        
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      <![CDATA[Hey mick! how ya been man! Damn those corrupt politicians! lol
    
    george
        
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      <![CDATA[Just because the dope you've been taking has been prescribed, by your psychiatrist, doesn't mean you can swallow as many pills as you please.
    
    Crank back on the crank.
    
    That will reduce your delusions to those natural to your mind.
        
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      <![CDATA[Remember everybody, Suffredin's lobbying activities have NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with his part-time job as County Commissioner or his race for State's Attorney! OK?
    
    Nursepower Services Corp
    9715 Southwest Hwy
    Oak Lawn, IL 60453 	
    
    $800.00 12/6/2007 to Suffredin for Cook County
    
    http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/lobbyist/
        
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      <![CDATA[Mick, thanks for your coverage of campaign finance.
    
    You missed some Steans money for Suffredin:
    
    Smith, Leo & Heather Steans
    Occupation: Non-Profit Administrator
    Employer: Birth to Five
    5348 N. Lakewood Avenue
    
    $2,500.00 11/15/2007 to Suffredin for Cook County
    
    Heather must have been feeling real confident & real flush to be worrying about her next County States Attorney late last year.
        
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      <![CDATA[Union-Busters For Suffredin
    
    Hey, SEIU! THIS is your guy???
    
    Berghoff, Carolyn
    Occupation: event caterer
    Employer: Self
    
    $1,000.00 12/19/2007 to Suffredin for Cook County
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Not Nilofar]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Elect someone who defended some bastard who SLASHED the nun's tires, Had a volunteer call Liz Gorman a vile "c" word. Boy, they should blacklist many of these seditionists. Now, Terrorism is STILL a big concern. And if they find any shady connections, LIKE IT OR NOT, Tony CAN'T escape his spouse's indirect woe if it EVER becomes a reality. And GOD FORBID they use something similar to the film "The Siege", THEN Tony will need adult diapers. And FURTHERMORE, Frank Coconuts......Stfu.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[The Countdown]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[A complex problem with that rare of all things, a simple solution.
    
    Elect Tony Peraica as our next State's Attorney.
    
    Then, watch as the rats get caught in the traps only he has the desire to set.
        
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      <![CDATA[Maybe he read Cecil's column:
    
    http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mgazilli.html
        
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      <![CDATA[" 'gazillions' from various carpenters, boilermakers, and other unions"
    
    Mick, can you find gazillions in the dictionary for us ?  Exactly how many zeros are in a gazillion ? Is this a term you encourage your Columbia College students to use ?  One you learned at Matchbook Cover U ?
    
    Or just a red-herring to try to sling mud ?
        
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      <![CDATA[How can Howard Brookins take money from Elzie Higginbottom?
    This is the rip off artist who burnt people in his own building and was the management company at 69 West Washington?
    He should be in jail
        
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