Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times, who never misses a chance to carry water for the Dems, plugs Democratic congressional hopeful John Tree (who is running for the Dem nomination to take on Congressman Bob Dold in the November general election) by reposting a Tree press release touting his past quarter's fundraising and listing some new endorsements.
We can see how his fundraising stacks up against the other major Dem hopefuls, such as Ilya Sheyman and Brad Schneider, once they release their results (although I would suggest that Tree's $80K raised and $20K self-contribution ain't much to crow about), but I got a really evil chuckle after reading down his press release and seeing that one of the new top endorsements that Tree is bragging about is none other than our old friend and well-known Democratic hatchetman for Terry Link, "Sneaky" Pete Couvall:
I just never get tired of reposting that video.
You all remember Pete Couvall, right? His most recent claim to infamy was his hiring of two campaign workers to collect signatures for State Senator Terry Link, which workers ended up being indicted and pleading guilty when it was discovered that they had forged the names (some right out of the phone book, as well as a sampling of dead folks) on Link's nominating petitions in 2008.
I really thought Link and Couvall were going to go down in flames for that, but they somehow managed to escape lasting taint, and that dynamic duo has certainly not shied away from continuing involvement in politics.
Many folks in Waukegan could go on for hours with stories about Couvall, but I would venture to say that except for the folks who are directly involved and support the Link-Couvall power structure up there, Tree may lose half the Democratic voters in Waukegan (where Ilya Sheyman seems to be particulary strong, by the way) by associating himself with Couvall. Couvall has had a history of supporting questionable candidates and officials, including, among others, former Lake County Coroner Richard Keller (another guily plea there).
Desperate times may call for desperate measures, but for a guy who is seeking to take on a reformer mantle, I'm a bit surprised that Tree is out there looking for support from the likes of Couvall. Wow.
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TA, if Tree knew anything about Couvall, he would have politely declined the endorsement, if that's all there was to it. More likely this is simply code for Terry Link coming out for Tree, but he's reluctant to do so officially as Dem party leader. In so many words Couvall's endorsement is links. Of course that shoulfd be making Dems run to anyone else besides Tree.
TA has a history of questionable blog posts. He should repent for his sins.
Ha! That's pretty funny, 10:35!
With his 5 and a half year-old video, posted by a nutjob no less, you'd think TA would have chewed the Pete Couvall bone to pieces by now. Apparently Link won't need Sneaky Pete as Castella is an unrepentant boob. Can't wait to see him again at the County Fair and watch him bully folks.
THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR: If you want a machine democrat, pick Tree.
reject Link/Couvall!
But TOTALLY vote for Schneider! Hahahah...
Lynn sweet is a mark kirk hater. She and the late steve neal at the sun times basically write whatever nasty thing the dccc and dscc tell them to about our Senator so it's not a suprise she's out there doing the work for the dccc on this. In 10 years of covering obama she's never written a critical thing about him or his inner circle.
As for tree his "big endorsement" hear is David wilhelm a thug from the 92 clinton campaign who ran Blago's 02 and 06 campaigns. He's the kind of legendary dirty insider from chicago that makes the suburbs sick. Also worth noting that he was fired as chief of the DNC after the 94 midterm.
Tree is putting together some kind of winning campaign.
FOKLAES
TA, you forgot one more outstanding candidate that Couvall is responsible for, that idiot Sheriff Mark Curran, I will never forgive him for that one!
Anon 10:09, that would put you in the approx 3% of people who voted against the Sheriff in his last reelection. Almost as good as being a 1%er, I guess!
and mights I add, lil fulker, theres be three things bout your noodle that many us here donna not like en stuff. onz: yuz mean like Dold n' stuff tuez: its hot in the oven with tomotos, ya know what I'z mean? threez: lillipops r gading on my lips. so shut up folker.
I would like to be the first to congratulate Ilya Sheyman on John Tree having received the endorsement of Pete Couvall.
That's got to be worth five to seven thousand votes for Sheyman.
Hey 8:22
Terry Links opponent wants you to repent for loving Pete Covall so much
Note for the record that no one has stepped up to say that Castella isn't an unrepentant boob. It isn't about Couvall, ladies and germs and it's only a little about Link. It's all about the fact that Castella doesn't belong in public office, period.
"Dirty insider from Chicago"? What? C'mon foklaes, engage brain before spewing your buzzwords. Wilhelm is from Ohio. Lives there, runs his businesses there (venture capital firms that actually create jobs rather than destroy them, by the way) and teaches at Ohio University. If you've met him, seen him on TV, or read anything written by him you'd know that 'thug' is about the last word people use to describe David Wilhelm.
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