A message to Illinois voters

[Glockfan.45]

Just a quick message to voters in Illinois, election day is comming (Tuesday 11-07-06). I for one will be casting my vote against Rod R. Blagojevich. As a gun rights activist I have prepared a list to explain why. Just food for thought before you step in the both, or decide not to show up at all.

Voted NO on decreasing gun waiting period from 3 days to 1. (Jun 1999)

Undaunted by his failure to demonize (50 caliber) big gun sport shooters, Blagojevich now is going after the owners of small handguns. His latest bill has the ridiculous title of the "Pocket Rocket Elimination Act." The congressman wants to send to prison for five years anyone who owns "the easily concealable pistols known" — only to Blagojevich and his staff — "as pocket rockets."Rep. Blagojevich defines a "pocket rocket" as any handgun that can hold two or more rounds of ammunition and measures less than seven and a half inches long.

In Congress, bills introduced by Feinstein and Illinois Democrat Rep. Rod R. Blagojevich would impose additional restrictions on .50 caliber rifles, treating them like machine guns.

Blagojevich, once an outspoken gun-control advocate who crusaded a decade ago to increase the Illinois gun permit(F.O.I.D) fee to $500 (If this isnt enough reason to vote him out I dont know what is).

If you need more to go on than just gun rights I prepared a list for that as well.

Voted NO on ending preferential treatment by race in college admissions. (May 1998)

Voted NO on more prosecution and sentencing for juvenile crime. (Jun 1999)

Voted NO on military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism. (Sep 2001)

Voted NO on allowing school prayer during the War on Terror. (Nov 2001)
I am a atheist but belive in freedom of religion. Rod seems not to share that view.


Voted NO on withholding $244M in UN Back Payments until US seat restored. (May 2001)

Voted NO on making the Bush tax cuts permanent. (Apr 2002)

Voted NO on eliminating the Estate Tax ("death tax"). (Apr 2001)

Voted NO on $46 billion in tax cuts for small business. (Mar 2000)

As for his main competition on the need for more guncontrol.

Topinka has said there already are enough gun laws in Illinois and the legislation to ban assault weapons is riddled with problems.

I feel that with Topinka we may have a chance at concealed carry in Illinois. With Blagojevich not a shot in hell.

 

[Soybomb]

Make no mistake, we have no chance at ccw either way sadly and topinka isn't my ideal candidate by a long shot, nor do I think she'll win, but I will also be casting my vote for her.

Here's another fun rod thing:
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/11/1191.asp
First spend nearly half a million dollars to have your name on highway signs when you could have spent $6500.

But also be sure to buy those signs from people who donate to your campaign http://capitalfax.blogspot.com/2006/06/firm-that-made-toll-signs-also.html

 

[Green Lantern]

Anti-gun AND condescending to Pharmacists....

I'll go dance a jig if this buffoon looses his job next week!

 

[Autolycus]

Just a thought...

but what if we let Rod win. Then perhaps next time the GOP will run better a better candidate than Topinka? That is the philosophy a friend is taking. He will just write in Mickey Mouse for Governor.

Either way I feel we have a lot to lose if Rod stays in office. I will probably end up voting for Topinka but I have a feeling that we will not get CCW very soon.

 

[Don Gwinn]

NO! If you're taking that route, vote for the Green guy, Rich Whitney. If he can get over 5% (and it looks like he can) then he won't have to do the petition dance next time and his party could end up putting a dent in the two-party lockup. That can only mean good things even if you disagree with his positions.

I'm seriously thinking of doing this myself. Otherwise, I'll vote for Topinka, but I don't think she's in it to win it. I really do see a "political combine" made up of the Democrats and Republicans at the state level. Her only virtue is that she doesn't hate gun rights as vociferously as Blagojevich does. She's no friend of ours--no friend of anyone but Bob Kjellander and Bill Cellini and probably some powerbrokers I don't know about. She will never, ever do anything for us or anybody else without checking to make sure it doesn't conflict with those men's interests.

 

[Soybomb]

Blago has done too much financial damage to the state for me to consider any action but an attempt to remove him from office.

 

[GoRon]

NO! If you're taking that route, vote for the Green guy, Rich Whitney

While listening to the Bears on the radio they just had a story that Whitney was a member of the US Socialist Party up until recently. He admits it is part of his past and denies hiding it from the public.

 

[scout26]

Mark McCoy is the write-in Libertian Party Candidate. I'm sorry but the combine in Illinois needs to be broken up. When Peter Fitzgerald is Republican state chairman, then I consider voting for statewide Republicans. Until then, only the National Republicans (US House, US Senate, etc.) will get my vote. I'll vote for Libertians at the state level, unless a Democrat downstater like Glenn Poshard runs again. I'll never vote for a Chicago Democrat.

Anyone talking to Brandon Phelps (D-118th, IIRC) about moving up the food chain one day. I think he has a great deal of potential.

 

[Deanimator]

Iran will enact representative republican democracy before Illinois does.

 

[xtarheel]

Illinois election

According to the polls, the gap is narowing between the Republican, Topinka, and the Democrat, Blago.

Topinka is not perfect, but she did not work for soon-to-be-convict former governor George Ryan. She has been elected state treasurer three times on her own, and her office is one of the only ones not under indictment.

Chicago mayor Rich Daley has been running ads on the radio stating if you want a state AWB, go to the bottom of the ballot and vote straight Democratic. Daley and Blogo form an unholy aliance that want to take away our guns.

A month ago, I didn't think Topinka had a chance, but now I think she just might do it. If for no other reason than to perserve my 2nd amendment rights I'm going to be at the polls when they open tomorrow morning and I would hope that other Illinois gun owners will do the same.

 

[ilbob]

I would not hold your breath. Illinois republicans are going to punish her for the sins of other Republicans not as clean as she is (in this context clean meaning probably not indictable). Republican voters just will not accept ethical lapses like Democratic voters do, and punish the party when they occur.

The amazing thing is that a Democratic candidate for governor who is a near shoe-in to be indicted in the near future is even still in the race. That tells you something about Democratic voters, at least in Illinois.

 

[ilbob]

but what if we let Rod win. Then perhaps next time the GOP will run better a better candidate than Topinka? That is the philosophy a friend is taking. He will just write in Mickey Mouse for Governor.

Good candidates don't really want to deal with the people that run the Illinois Republican party. JBT was their hatchet girl to get rid of Peter Fitzgerald, a moderate Republican (meaning he was only slightly left of center) senator who managed against all odds to get an honest US attorney appointed for Illinois, who took down G. Ryan. He is now working on Rod and Daley. For that, JBT got rid of him.

Make no mistake about it. JBT is not a friend to gun owners any more than she is a friend of open, honest government. But, she is not the sworn enemy of gun owners either like Rod is. And she is probably not indictable. Most likely, we will end up with Rod being indicted and having to resign. That means the Lt Gov will take over. How many of you Illinois residents even know his name? I'll give you a hint. He is the guy that spearheaded the fight to get the state house reduced from 3 members in 59 districts to 118 single member districts. He is a long entrenched Chicago machine politician who pretends he is a reformer.

 

[eastwood44mag]

I know him. Turns out his brother lives next door to an old buddy of mine.

Small, screwed up world.

 

[Don Gwinn]

His initials are PQ, smarty-pants.


Anyway, I just read that Rich Whitney claims to be in favor of concealed carry, although he says most current gun control is fair and he's in favor of the "status quo" on guns. Take that as you will.