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An acquaintance here in Chicago who does freelance location sound work for local news stations. Apparently on Thursday he was hired by ABC 7 Chicago to stake out Rahm Emanuel’s house for like 12 hours to see if he would comment on the Blago situation. Near the end of the day, it turned out that […]
Granted, it’s not Governor Blagojevich.
Even though the Chicago Tribune is filing for bankruptcy, they’re running ads here in the local Chicago market television looking for new subscribers. The footage they use is of US Attorney Pat Fitzgerald praising the Trib at a news conference about Blagojevich’s indictment.
Occasionally on the El train (subway) here in Chicago, conductors will make comments over the loudspeaker other than what they are required to do (”doors closing,” “all aboard,” announcements about delays, etc).
The Red Line conductor I had this morning was unusually talkative. “All aboard! It’s cold out there today, folks. So cold I even saw […]
Blago, one day before his arrest.
Super-corrupt and awaiting-trial Democratic Congressman Bill Jefferson of Louisiana has been finally been defeated by Joe Cao a Republican who is the country’s first Vietnamese-American elected to national office. Cao, a 41 year old immigration attorney, is considered a moderate.
Welcome to the House, Joe!
Zuh?
Brenda Benton, a veteran media relations employee with the Los Angeles Police Department, is now part of a record-breaking political phenomenon.
Ms. Benton was so thrilled with the election of Barack Obama as president that she has become one of about 300,000 people who have, so far, put themselves forward for posts in the new administration. […]
Today I had a meeting with the head of an organization that Obama co-founded in the 1990s here in Chicago (the meeting was related to a documentary I’m producing that has nothing to do with Obama). Anyway, Barack was formally on the organization’s board of trustees until a few years ago when the new executive […]
… And Obama still whooped McCain with the biggest electoral landslide in 20 years.
Need I say anything more?
(Hat tip- Pollster.com.)
Breaking:
Obama plans to appear at a morning news conference Monday in Chicago to announce Democratic primary rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as his secretary of state and say that President George W. Bush’s defense secretary, Robert Gates, is staying on.
Democratic officials said Obama would name Washington lawyer Eric Holder as attorney general and Arizona Gov. Janet […]
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