Have you heard of the "do-it-yourself Messiah" (as in the Handel holiday classic)?
Well, today we have Team America's do-it-yourself endorsements. Tell us who you are voting for in tomorrow's election, in what race and area, and why.
Here and here and here are a couple of local news items to get you started.
Me? I'm voting for this good-looking bloke. ;-)
Have at it!
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I endorse everyone but Lisa Stone for Buffalo Grove Village Trustee.
I don't think she even has half a brain.
I strongly endorse -
1) Larry Falbe for trustee in Mettawa
2) Keith Gray for Rondout School Board
3) Terry Weppler for mayor of Libertyville (www.citizensforweppler.com)
4) Billy Morgan for Libertyville Township Highway Commish.
5) Ann Oakley for Libertyville High School 128 and Cook Library Dist.
6) YES on Route 53!
Hey, everyone-
I was hoping for an open thread to do this, but this is close enough. Tikkunolam's got a new blog with his brother. Come visit at nexttenwords.com. All are welcome, but come with an open mind, as we're a high-class joint.
Just love seeing Lauren Beth Gash's name buried on all those ugly Highland Park news endorsements filled with democrat names. Former State Rep, HAH! Also no Dan Seals or Hank Perritt :(
Our bloke versus their ellen grinch, reminds me of that great email in 2004 contrasting our blonde gop women against their albrights, clintons, and brauns.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=16363&R=1612638F89
In Praise of a GOP Moderate
Mark Kirk is the party's best hope in Illinois.
by Kenneth Tomlinson
04/13/2009, Volume 014, Issue 29
In early summer of 2005, I was preparing to go to Afghanistan to examine the state of U.S. international broadcasting there when a friend suggested I call on Illinois representative Mark Kirk.
I really didn't expect to learn much from a congressman, but Kirk was on the House Appropriations Committee and, throughout my years of involvement in international broadcasting, I have never rejected a chance for contact with appropriators.
Kirk, though, proved a surprise. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of Afghanistan and of broadcasting there. "You are covering Kabul well--but you are not reaching the rugged, mountainous border with Pakistan [where Osama Bin Laden is believed to be in hiding].
You are broadcasting there in shortwave--but that's no longer the primary medium of the region. I was up [in the Northwest Frontier Province] late last year, and I got out of my vehicle and went from car to car, truck to truck. Everyone was listening to a radio--AM or FM radio.
Both Kirk and I knew how difficult it is to change the traditions of a federal agency, but out of our discussion that day came plans to place an AM facility near the eastern Afghanistan city of Khost and line-of-sight FM transmitters on mountain peaks that could reach people throughout the region. Separate news and programming would be focused on the interests of the Pashtuns who dominate the region.
In Afghanistan, both Afghan and American senior officials were enthusiastic about the plan. President Hamid Karzai sent word that it was the highest broadcasting priority for his country. Back in Washington, I sought administration support for the plan, but OMB is not the place to go if you are looking for innovative ways to fight the war on terror. The best I could do was the hope of inclusion in the 2007 budget--which meant funding was at best more than two years away.
I told Kirk that we had won the battle, but were losing the war. "They're marking up the '05 budget on the House floor this afternoon," he said. "Come with me to talk with the subcommittee chairman."
Soon we were in the office of Frank Wolf, and Kirk was making the case for a different kind of broadcasting along the Afghan-Pakistan border. That afternoon $2.1 million was inserted in the appropriations bill, and within a month our agency had the money to begin planning.
I had been around Congress for decades, and I had rarely seen anything like Kirk's ability to get things done.
Trim and alert in appearance, Mark Kirk looks every inch the Naval Reserve officer he is. (He has served in Turkey, Serbia, and Bosnia, and flew missions during the Gulf war.)
A graduate of Cornell and the London School of Economics, he was chief of staff in the office of moderate Illinois representative John Porter in the 1980s, and it was with Porter's backing that in 2000 he won an 11-person primary to succeed him.
The 10th district is one of the most socially liberal areas in America, and Kirk is a moderate on issues like abortion, the environment, and homosexual rights. But the state has trended heavily Democratic in recent years, and Kirk was targeted by a well-funded Democratic opponent in 2008. With Barack Obama running a full 20 percentage points ahead of the Republican ticket in the district--and the Obama campaign headquarters little more than a mile away--prognosticators in Washington had Mark Kirk marked for extinction.
But the mild-mannered Kirk was not going to go down easy. He is fluent in Spanish and worked hard to get Hispanic votes--the district is 15 percent Hispanic. He ran boldly on his strong record of fiscal conservatism calling for sharp cuts in the capital-gains tax and federal spending cuts and the elimination of congressional earmarking (except, of course, when that is the only way to find money to fight the war on terror in Afghanistan). Kirk not only won reelection in a district Obama carried by 23 points, he also slightly increased his margin of victory from 2006.
I endorse Brendan Appel, for Northfield Township trustee; Dan Patlak, for Wheeling Township assessor; and Ruth O'Connell, for Wheeling Township trustee.
Phil Collins
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