January 2010
74 posts
“I am the guy who will take the bicycle chain to the the playground in...”
– Illinois Governor candidate Dan Proft (who promises to “put the bully into his bully pulpit”), via Eric Zorn in the Chicago Tribune, 1/31/10.
Actual wording of the New Trier District 203 $174...
Here is the wording of the tax referendum for New Trier - be sure to look for it at the end of your ballot, after the judges:
Shall the Board of Education of New Trier Township High School District Number 203, Cook County, Illinois, build and equip additions to; improve the site of; and alter, repair, equip and replace portions of the District’s buildings at the Winnetka Campus; and issue...
An invitation for all good men and women to come...
In the 10th Congressional District, candidate Beth Coulson, a liberal GOP state representative from Glenview, has been snowing the mailboxes of voters in the district with literature portraying herself as a commonsense, fiscal conservative. The record shows quite the opposite. Rep. Coulson is a friend of trial lawyers and unions, has voted to hike taxes, sponsored an Illinois Cap & Trade bill,...
Uh oh - New Trier's underground parking garage...
… if that is a deal breaker for you.
And on a personal note, conservativeBrand has never forgotten reading Salinger’s Catcher in Mrs. Wingler’s 314 English class at New Trier. Even in those uber-old classrooms, with 5000+ fellow students in the hallways, we managed to learn enough to recognize post-adolsescent bilge when we encountered it. Sorry to hear that the oldest...
New New Trier news on board members who have never...
ConservativeBrand had fun reading through the scores of names listed in the Pioneer Press ad that advocates the $174 million tax increase referendum - that is the one that the current New Trier principal says will make New Trier a Rolls Royce campus (complete with underground heated garage.) Lots of old Edublob friends from school boards turned up on the list of community members who are happy to...
New Trier asks for 21st Century taxes for the next... →
Check out Wes Baumann’s interview with Channel 2 in Chicago - even these reporters were shocked and awed by the $174 million (plus $94 million of interest over 30 years) tax hike for the Rolls Royce high school a.k.a. New Trier. The reporters listed several top area high schools that were rebuilt from scratch for around $30 million recently.
State of the Union Drinking Game - Have fun while... →
Beth Coulson's campaign literature is a joke: she...
Coulson’s record just for 2008 on taxes includes the following that she supported:
free public transportation for senior citizens, even the wealthy
increased tax authoiruity on transportation (RTA)
divert $385 million from the general fund to the RTA
Democrat’s pork-bloated $59 billion budget
increased cigarette tax
increased real estate transfer tax by $30 million
increased...
“The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office,” said...”
– Mark Steyn in National Review on Line: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MThlOTBiN2QwNDgzNTk0MDBkZjNhYzM2MWQyODUyOWY=#more
Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead
1/21/10. Nancy Pelosi announced this morning that she does not have the votes in the House to pass the Senate ObamaCare legislation - and that is the only way Congressional Democrats can circumvent the new non-filibuster-proof Senate. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100121/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaulhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100121/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul
Illinois Tea Baggers are getting the shaft from,... →
Why, from the Illinois Republican Party/Combine - the leaders who brought us state-wide corrupt politics from George Ryan to Rod Blagojevich to Barack Obama. Blogger Red State is justifiably angry!
“People heard his serial promises about airing the health-care debate on C-SPAN,...”
– Victor Davis Hanson is very, very angry! http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjBjY2Y3NGM3Y2UzYTA0MGJmZGQ3OGY2ZmE3NGZhMDA=#more
What is a Scott Brown Republican anyway?
1/20/10. The Scott Brown campaign truck - that would be the 2005 GMC Canyon with more than 211,000 miles on it - stuck in Barack Obama’s craw, just like the election of a Tea Party moderate to the Senate in Massachusetts goes down hard in the Oval Office. What Obama still doesn’t get is that real people drive trucks - not just red neck gun-toters who couldn’t get into Harvard...
“And the message we need to send in dealing with terrorists: Our tax dollars...”
– 11:33 p.m. CST 1/19/10. The favorite line from Scott Brown’s victory speech tonight. He is talking about Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a New York civilian court.
Washington: WAS THAT LOUD ENOUGH?
It’s kind of reassuring when a very large country speaks the truth, very loudly. The fact is, Americans have a lot of common sense, and a bunch of elitist, academic leftover flower children living in a 1960s mentality are never going to prevail.
240 years are really just a flash in the pan - there is no doubt that the Sons of Liberty in Boston are wearing big smiles on their faces, wherever...
MA polls close in 20 minutes!
Dow Jones up 115 based on a projected Brown victory - what’s your bet?
Bob Dold represents small business smarts for the...
After receiving endorsements by the Chicago Tribune and Senator Dick Lugar of Indiana today, Bob Dold got down to business at his Winnetka headquarters with a group of small business owners who happen to be women. The participants offered a pretty concise and uniform set of concerns: costs of health care for their employees (amount unknown); higher taxes on revenues; a generally unfriendly...
Here's the site to visit tonight for results of... →
Polls in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts close at 7 p.m. central time. After that, watch history in the making.
“Despite being a lifelong member of the Democratic Party, I am endorsing Scott...”
– James Sheets, six-term Democratic mayor of Quincy, Massachusetts, via AmericanThinker.com.
Is Martha Coakley finally sipping the Boston tea?
1/15/10. The book on conservativeBrand’s night table currently is The Patriots, the Men Who Started the American Revolution, by A.J. Langguth, and we couldn’t help noting that the 240th anniversary of the Boston Massacre is coming up this March 5th. The massacre really was just a mid-step in the months of chaos and carousing in the streets of Boston that led up to the Tea Party and,...
Former State Rep. Penny Pullen's take on the IL...
Why is Penny Pullen endorsing Andy McKenna? In her own words:
In the contest for governor of Illinois, I am supporting Andy McKenna.
Andy is a businessman and, taking a businesslike approach to the State’s financial mess, is the only candidate in either party who has laid out a detailed, credible plan to pull Illinois out of the chasm without raising taxes. The contrast between him and two other...
Don't like the facts? Change 'em. →
Michael Boskin’s op. ed. in the Wall Street Journal (1/14/10) turns out to describe the modus operandi of the New Trier High School administration and board of education in marketing their property tax increase referenum - fuzzy math on top of just plain wrong data.
Top Conservatives in U.S. Politics
Britain’s Telegraph.co.uk is announcing this week its second annual list of influential political conservatives (and liberals). Eric Odom made the list at #87 - signalling a pretty good future for a young Chicagoan who is working hard to make a difference. Here’s how he is cited on the list:
“Aged just 29, the self-proclaimed “blogivist” organised some of the earliest “tea...
Coulson is a tool of the teachers' union
Here are a few of Beth Coulson’s votes on bills which affected education. She voted
against SB675 (2009) requiring that all students learn about the Congressional Medal of Honor and its recipients.
for SB 1984 (2009) that allows labor unions (including the teachers’ union) to use card-check procedures to unionize charter schools.
against SB0077 (2005) that ended abusive...
"Einstein said that the difference between...
For those who still haven’t noticed, the February 2nd election is the Tea Party election in Illinois. That means that a lot of conservatives are going to vote for change to the right rather than more of the same - a.k.a. let’s just settle for an R by the candidate’s name. In the Republican governor’s race, more and more of the talk is moving towards Dan Proft, who...
“If you hate big government, you should love the Senate filibuster. The...”
– From Andrew Breitbart’s http://biggovernment.com/2010/01/13/the-filibuster-is-constitutional-and-essential-for-freedom/
A vote for Coulson is a vote against the 2nd...
Second Amendment rights are a core component of the Republican platform. Where does Beth Coulson stand on gun rights? Her record of opposing firearms freedom and favoring increased firearms restrictions tells the tale. Among the many bills in the Illinois House that Coulson co-sponsored or supported:
HB5227 (2008) - would have forbidden private citizens from selling or transferring guns without a...
We report, you decide: Beth Coulson's campaign...
Beth Coulson’s campaign manager, Jen Belkov, is a well-known Democrat operative - she’s the one who arranged Beth’s photo ad in her last election with Barack Obama. The deputy campaign manager, Joseph Woodward, also is a Democrat, and an assistant, Eric Mller, is Bev Kirk’s son; Bev Kirk is Mark Kirk’s stepmother, who often has represented to conservativeBrand that...