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Politics / Clout City / News The Preckwinkle Onslaught
Posted by Mick Dumke on Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:32 PM
Since Toni Preckwinkle won the Democratic nomination for county board president last week, I’ve heard lots of people saying it represents the return of the Washington coalition—a band of independent-minded African-Americans, Latinos, and whites who want to whip local government into shape.
There are a couple of problems with the comparison.
Chicagoland / Politics Know When to Fold 'Em
Posted by Whet Moser on Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:30 AM
You really couldn't pick a better time to end your campaign besides a Sunday night during the Super Bowl*.
* About which just a couple things:
1. It was an okay game, not a great one, but I did appreciate the goal-line stand and the onside kick. Sean Payton is my Super Bowl MVP.
2. I feel like the Who were sort of the end of the line for halftime shows featuring bands everyone theoretically likes. Since next year the big game is in Dallas, I am expecting country (Faith Hill: 3-1; Tim McGraw: 5-1; Brad Paisley: 10-1) but I'd just as soon go back to the days of marching bands. The obvious pop choice would be either Kanye or Lady Gaga, but I can't see the schoolmarms who run the broadcast getting behind either, even though the latter would be like the Cremaster cycle for the rest of us.
3. For instance re schoolmarmism:
CBS has rejected another Super Bowl ad, this time for telling viewers to "Go to Hell."The trailer for the epic Electronic Arts' game "Dante's Inferno" contains plenty of scenes of a warrior fighting beasts in the netherworld. But it was the game's widely used marketing tagline that had CBS seeing red.
The commercial will still air, only with the tagline "Hell Awaits" instead.
Chicagoland / Politics The Scott Lee Cohen Shuffle
Posted by Whet Moser on Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:57 PM
A "key Democratic source" [ed. note: ?] says Cohen wants to drop out, which is news to Cohen's spokesman; Dick Durbin says he won't be lite guv and "I'm just saying we have found ways legally to give voters an alternative" [ed note: ?]; and "if reporters wanted to speak directly to Cohen, the candidate would be at the Vertigo nightclub at the top of the Dana Hotel and Spa in downtown Chicago Friday night" [ed note: of course].
Update: Of course pt. 2.
