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This looks like the Republican year of 1994Jaws takes a biteWho’s behind Stand for Children?The counts they didn’t get Blago onSomething to Stu over if Jim Ryan runs for governorLook who’s Pat Quinn’s new best friendCareful what you sayWhen a candidate for governor tries to help out a puppy gas chamberQuinn will do whatever it takes to winChris Kelly, Blagojevich’s loyal friend
Politics - Rich Miller | Wednesday, January 14,2009
So governor, here’s what you should do next
Governor Rod Blagojevich was pure defiance last week after the House voted 114-1
to impeach him.
Blagojevich said he expected the impeachment because the House has been fighting
Politics - Rich Miller | Wednesday, December 31,2008
The famous trial lawyer will lose this case
“It’s tough to scream ‘witch hunt’ when your client is riding a broom,” cracked one Statehouse reporter the other day after Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s defens
Politics - Rich Miller | Wednesday, December 24,2008
A radioactive governor and the fallout
From the very beginning, Gov. Rod Blagojevich sought to centralize the operation
of state government as much as possible in his office. A cadre of deputy
governors have overseen daily agency operati
Politics - Rich Miller | Wednesday, December 17,2008
The governor’s okeedokee aides
Indulging Blago in the goofiest schemes imaginable
I spent a few hours last week re-reading the federal criminal complaint against
Gov. Rod Blagojevich and chief of staff John Harris. As I did, one image kept
coming to mind over and over
Politics - Rich Miller | Wednesday, December 10,2008
Impeach him now
Excise the tumor from our body poltic. Get it over with.
Enough, already.
The Illinois General Assembly is planning to return to Springfield next week.
The idea is to change state law so that Gov. Rod Blagojevich cannot appoint
Barack
Politics - Rich Miller | Tuesday, November 25,2008
New Senate president may be just the one to unlock the gridlock
The historical significance of last week’s votes to elect a new Senate president and a new Senate Republican leader is
difficult to overstate.
For starters, replacing both chamber leaders at o
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, November 20,2008
Who will the governor appoint as senator? I nominate Bill.
I was interviewed the other day by National Public Radio about the “campaign” to fill president-elect Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat. Most of what I said was left on the cutting-roo
Politics - Rich Miller | Wednesday, November 12,2008
Pro-choice plays hardball, while pro-life takes the gloves off
Two groups, one pro-choice and the other pro-life, are doing their best to bend
the Illinois Statehouse to their respective wills.
State Rep. Ruth Munson (R-Elgin) was defeated last week by D
Politics - Rich Miller | Wednesday, November 5,2008
Governor helped the con-con campaign by saying he’s against it
Yet another bizarre year of Illinois politics has been duly capped by Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s recent stated opposition to a constitutional convention
Yet another bizarre year of Illinois politics has been
duly capped by Gov. Rod Blagojevich's recent stated opposition to a
constitutional convention.
Only in Illinois, perhaps, could voter
Politics - Rich Miller | Wednesday, October 29,2008
We can’t afford not to hold a constitutional convention
The pricetag and our state's failed politics
appear to be the two biggest arguments against holding a constitutional
convention.
Every 20 years, Illinois voters are given the right
to
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