Public Affairs

• Better than Chris Wallace w/Gov.Dean: Berkowitz w/ Gov. Dean on multiculturalism;healthcare reform;Obama,fiscal issues and more troops for Afghanistan

  Gov. Howard Dean, Michael Medved and Al Gore on Multiculturalism
  
  Jeff Berkowitz: You were talking tonight about multiculturalism, how important it is, how it’s been important for America for the last few hundred years. Michael Medved spoke to [the New Trier Republican Organization] just a few miles away [in [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 1:10am EST
  

• Getting to know 10th CD Republican Primary Candidate Bob Dold

  Text revised and links added at 5:00 pm on Friday.
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  There are four major candidates in the 10th CD Republican Primary. See here. One of the 10th CD Republican candidates, Bill Cadigan (Winnetka), has appeared on Public Affairs. Watch Bill Cadigan here and Read a [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 4:27am EST
  

• Berkowitz to join headliner Paul Vallas on Tom Roeser's weekly WLS- 890 AM radio show, Political Shoot-out, this Sunday night at 8:00 pm

  After all the turkey left-overs have been eaten on Sunday and there is virtually no football left to watch, don't despair, you will still have one big treat in store for you.
  
  Jeff Berkowitz will join Paul Vallas, former Chicago Public Schools CEO (1995-2001) and first runner-up to Rod' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:42pm EST
  

• Better than CNN's John King: Berkowitz w/ U. S. Senate Candidate David Hoffman on "Is Hoffman a better candidate than Giannoulias;"Cable and Streaming

  Jeff Berkowitz: Does Alexi Giannoulias, as somebody who ran on his experience working for the family bank, the Broadway Bank, can he hide from that?...[or] if the Bank screwed up, did Alexi Giannoulias screw up?
  
  David Hoffman, U. S. Senate Candidate (D-Chicago): Well, of course, it's relevant. I' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:54pm EST
  

• Better than Bill Kurtis with Gov. Quinn: Berkowitz w/State Comptroller Candidate Krislov on the Bully Pulpit & Taxes; Cable tonight and now streaming

  Clint Krislov (D-Wilmette), Candidate for State Comptroller: What Krislov says is that before you can ask people to raise their taxes, you’ve got to make the system fair, you’ve got to make it so that it’s not just the taxpayers who are the sucker in this game…
  
  Jeff Berkowitz: [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:14pm EST
  

• The meaning of recent endorsements by Republican Township organizations for IL 10th Cong. District Candidate Robert Dold.

  Links added and text revised at 10:30 am on Monday
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  Rich Miller (Capitolfax) makes some inferences that are not supported by the evidence when he writes:
  
  It’s becoming obvious that several suburban township organizations have moved far to the Right - at least at the endorsement [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:55pm EST
  

• IL State GOP Chairman Brady: The meeting with Chairman Steele,Rep. Coulson, Tom Cross, et al was not as reported in Politico- "They were 100% wrong."

  IL State GOP Chairman Pat Brady says, "Politico was completely, 100% wrong.”
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  Jeff Berkowitz: And, I take it Michael Steele is staying neutral in the 10th Cong. District.
  
  IL State GOP Chairman Pat Brady: Absolutely. The focus is completely on a big picture approach to winning seats" [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 4:38am EST
  

• 10th CD Candidate Rep. Coulson meets today with RNC Chairman Steele, Republican Leaders Cross and Radogno and State GOP Chairman Brady

  Video links added on Friday at 12:45 pm (CST)
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  The Coulson campaign sent out a press release late yesterday afternoon indicating that 10th Cong. District Republican Primary candidate Beth Coulson is joining Illinois House Republican Leader Tom Cross, Illinois Senate Republican Leader Chris Radogno and Illinois Republican Party Chairman [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:15am EST
  

• 10th CD Republican Candidate State Rep. Beth Coulson to meet with RNC Chairman Michael Steele.

  10th CD Republican Primary Candidate State Rep. Beth Coulson (R-Glenview) is scheduled to meet tomorrow afternoon, in the Chicago Loop, with RNC Chairman Michael Steele.
  
  It is not known by this journalist if Chairman Steele will be meeting on this trip to Chicago with any other 10th CD candidates. [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:33pm EST
  

• Gov. Pat Quinn to Dan Hynes: I’m the Governor and you’re not; Hynes to Quinn: "It's about leadership, Pat."

  Text revised significantly and supplemented, and video links added, at 1:00 pm on Thursday.
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  There is not a lot of daylight between Quinn and Hynes whether it is tax policy, healthcare policy, state treatment of illegal immigrants, spending priorities, education policy, job growth policy or whatever. The views [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:45am EST
  

• Almost as good as the late John Callaway w/the late Harold Washington:Berkowitz w/ 7th CD Candidate Ald. Sharon Denise Dixon; Cable and soon streaming

  This week's Chicago Metro Suburban edition of "Public Affairs," features 2010 7th Cong. Dist. Democratic Primary candidate Chicago Ald. Sharon Denise Dixon (D-24th Ward)
  
  The Chicago Metro Suburban airing schedule for Public Affairs is included, below. The show was recorded on Sunday, November 15, 2009.
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:45pm EST
  

• Better than Stephanopoulos w/ Hillard Clinton: Berkowitz w/Democratic Illinois Comptoller Candidate Clint Krislov; Cable and Soon Streaming

  Clint Krislov: No, I’m not waffling. I’m telling you when people get their pension doubled or tripled and then move out of state, so that they can receive their pension and start working somewhere else now and they never have to pay Illinois tax on that, that’s a concern.
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:33pm EST
  

• Better than Olbermann w/Palin: Berkowitz w/Dem. Gov. Candidate Ed Scanlan; On Cable tonight in Chicago, now Streaming

  Ed Scanlan [Democratic Primary candidate for Governor]: ... we ought to be trying to lure businesses into Illinois by giving them a tax Holiday…and then also trying to make our climate in Illinois one that businesses will want to come to. What they are doing is precisely the opposite. [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:55am EST
  

• New Trier, Northfield and Wheeling Republican organization endorsement sessions: Quotes and Totals

  New Trier Republican Organization endorsment session
  
  “It’s fantastic to get the endorsement of the New Trier Republican Organization (“NTRO,”) said Kenilworth’s 10th CD candidate Bob Dold yesterday. It’s a thoughtful organization- true honor to get their endorsement. There are twelve organizations like this in the 10th CD, but there [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 4:32am EST
  

• To form a more perfect democracy [and a more popular Democratic Party], Quinn calls a Saturday Presser—but it was not about Stroger, or Stroger's tax.

  A strange Saturday Sabbath with Gov. Quinn
  
  It was a strange Saturday afternoon at the Thompson Center in the Chicago Loop this past weekend. The few media who showed up in the Blue Room on the 15th Floor for the Press Conference called by Governor Quinn to watch him [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:36am EST
  

• Better than Charlie Rose w/ Nicole Kidman; Berkowitz w/State Comptroller candidate Clint Krislov on state tax increases; Cable and Soon Streaming

  This week's Chicago Metro Suburban edition of "Public Affairs," features 2010 Democratic Primary State Comptroller candidate Clint Krislov, father of three who lives in Wilmette with his wife. His kids are now grown up. Clint is an accomplished lawyer in private practice who has been involved in many consumer protection' [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:07pm EST
  

• Way Better than Stephanopoulos w/Cokie and Sam: Berkowitz w/Dem Gov. candidate Ed Scanlan on Taxes and Deficits, Cable and Streaming

  The "Public Affairs," show featuring Ed Scanlan, Candidate in the 2010 Democratic Primary for Governor, is airing tonight, Nov.9 on cable in Aurora and surrounding areas at 7:30 pm on ACTV-10. The program also airs at 3:30 pm tomorrow and Wednesday in Aurora and surrounding areas (New regular slots for [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 4:23pm EST
  

• Senator Brady gains slightly in last night’s forum while Dillard, Ryan and McKenna tread water.

  As to who won last night’s Republican gubernatorial candidate forum, we ask the question as to which candidate did the best job of helping to move the needle toward the win column.
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  Retired, wealthy small businessman Adam Andrzejewski. With less than one hundred days left until the February [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:53am EST
  

• Tonight’s Republican Guv Forum and the likely MSM coverage bias

  As all seven Republicans in their gubernatorial primary head toward tonight’s show down forum sponsored by the State GOP at the Hilton in the Loop, it is useful to review the liberal journalism bias in this town. Tuesday night’s discussion on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight [Public TV] gives Republicans an [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:35am EST
  

• Better than Tom Roeser w/Bill Ayers:Berkowitz w/Dem.Gubernatorial candidate Ed Scanlan on not raising the income tax and much more;Cable and Streaming

  Ed Scanlan [Democratic Primary candidate for Governor]: ... we ought to be trying to lure businesses into Illinois by giving them a tax Holiday…and then also trying to make our climate in Illinois one that businesses will want to come to. What they are doing is precisely the opposite. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:23pm EST
  

• Better than Craig Dellimore w/ Mayor Daley: Berkowitz w/ Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Ed Scanlan; Cable and Streaming

  This week's Chicago Metro Suburban edition of "Public Affairs," features 2010 Democratic Primary gubernatorial candidate Ed Scanlan, who lives in Oak Park with his wife. His kids are now grown up. Ed is an accomplished lawyer in private practice who has tried more than one hundred jury trials to verdict.' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:49pm EST
  

• Cong. Kirk and Cong. Roskam on Feds divesting their private sector interests; healthcare; Giannoulias v. Hoffman; Gitmo; Palin

  Congressman Mark Kirk (R-Highland Park, 10th CD) and Congressman Peter Roskam (R-Wheaton, 6th CD) held a joint press conference yesterday afternoon in Chicago in which Kirk and Roskam discussed, along with a number of other topics, their proposed legislation to require the federal government to divest itself, over the course [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 4:27am EST
  

• Better than Stephanopoulous w/Valerie Jarrett: Berkowitz w/ Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Andrzejewski-Cable and Streaming

  The "Public Affairs," show featuring Adam Andrzejewski, Candidate in the 2010 Republican Primary for Governor, is airing tonight, Nov.2 on cable in Aurora and surrounding areas at 7:30 pm on ACTV-10. The program also airs at 3:30 pm tomorrow and Wednesday in Aurora and surrounding areas (New regular slots for [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 7:48pm EST
  

• Better than David Gregory with Tim Geithner: Berkowitz w/former Reagan adviser Art Laffer and FNC's Steve Moore; Cable and Streaming

  Art Laffer [former Reagan economics adviser]: We all want to see the poor do well. But, you don’t make the poor rich by making the rich poor. The dream in America has never been to make Beverly Hills look like Watts. The dream is...[Watch the show w/ Laffer and [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 3:24am EST
  

• Sen. Meeks, Columnist Eric Zorn and TV show host Berkowitz discuss education, parental responsibility and school vouchers, charters and school choice

  State Sen. James Meeks, a popular South Side minister, writes an op-ed today -- Their blood is on our hands -- about the ongoing, chronic problem of youths being murdered in Chicago. [Read here]. Berkowitz's journalism mentor and good friend, Chicago Tribune columnist and father of Chicago blogging, Eric' [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 12:43am EDT
  

• Andrzejewski (interviewed by Berkowitz) calls McKenna’s entry into Gov race bad for Illinois; Questions failed leadership of McKenna;Cable & Streaming

  He pulls a knife, you pull a gun.
  
  He sends one of your boys to the hospital. You send one of his to the morgue.
  
  That’s the Chicago Way.
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  Adam Andrzejewski [R-Hinsdale]:...I had 83% of probable Republican voters—did not know who I was-- and I was [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:27pm EDT
  

• McKenna-Murphy make it official: They are running for Gov and Lt. Gov. and they spell out their campaign themes, including "Springfield outsiders."

  Revised at 10:55 am on Wednesday to expand McKenna-Murphy Theme No. 3, below, to include Illinois job growth, which was a very clear emphasis of the McKenna-Murphy announcement and an inadvertent omission from our earlier draft of this post.
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  Andy McKenna, Jr. made his run for Governor in [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 5:27am EDT
  

• Better than McKenna-Murphy announcing their candidacy for Gov/Lt.Gov:Berkowitz w/ Republican Gov candidate Adam Andrzejewski;Cable and soon streaming

  This week's Chicago Metro Suburban edition of "Public Affairs," features 2010 Republican Primary gubernatorial candidate and self-made multi-millionaire Adam Andrzejewski, who lives in Hinsdale with his wife, Kerry, and children. The Chicago Metro Suburban airing schedule for Public Affairs is included, below. The show was recorded on Sunday, October' [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 6:25pm EDT
  

• Better than Monday night football: Berkowitz w/Republican gubernatorial Frontrunner Sen. Bill Brady; Cable tonight in Chicago & Aurora-and streaming

  The "Public Affairs," show featuring Senator Bill Brady (R-Bloomington), candidate in the 2010 Gubernatorial Republican Primary, is airing tonight, Oct. 26: (1) throughout the City of Chicago at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21(CANTV, aka Chicago Access Network TV) and (2) on cable in Aurora and surrounding areas at 7:30 [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 2:05pm EDT
  

• Media Availabilities held after last week's Union League Club of Chicago Republican Guv Candidate forum

  After the Republican gubernatorial candidate forum at the Union League Club of Chicago on Wednesday [See here], a media availability was held with each candidate who appeared at the forum: retired millionaire businessman Adam Andrzejewski (R-Hinsdale), Senator Bill Brady (R-Bloomington), Senator Dillard (R-Westmont), DuPage County Board Chairman Bob Schillerstrom [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 5:29am EDT
  

• The ULC Republican Gov Candidate Forum: 5 guys who say they don’t want to raise your taxes and who want to run against Blago.Will Jim & Andy join in?

  We’ll report further, perhaps, later in the day about this morning’s Union League Club of Chicago (“ULC”) forum with five of the six declared Republican Primary candidates for Governor, but for now suffice it to say that there were no major surprises before a packed crowd of about 220 paying [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 3:26pm EDT
  

• Better than Carol Marin w/Hultgren, Steans, Coulson and Burns: Berkowitz w/Sen. Bill Brady on the Gubernatorial issues;Cable this week & now streaming

  State Sen. and Republican Gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady [Bloomington]: No question I disclosed confidential information [Watch the show with Sen. Brady].
  
  Jeff Berkowitz: So, did [Andy McKenna, Jr.] abuse that [disclosure] by asking for that [information] and then turning around and running against you?
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  Jeff [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 7:47pm EDT
  

• Better than Monday Night Football: Berkowitz w/10th CD Candidate Bill Cadigan on Iran,Taxes,Public options and much more; Cable tonight and Streaming

  JeffBerkowitz: That means military action [against Iran].
  
  Bill Cadigan (R-Winnetka), 10th CD Republican Primary Candidate: That means military action. It means continued quarantine. It means working with the international community in the meantime to make sure that doesn’t happen.
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  The "Public Affairs," show featuring Bill Cadigan, [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 4:04pm EDT
  

• Rep. Julie Hamos and Bill Cadigan are the first 10th CD candidates to “go up,” on TV and get in depth “earned media."Cadigan on Cable & now Streaming

  Updated on Friday at 12:30 pm:
  
  A well used line by Bob Sirott when he was at WTTW was "One more thing." Well, one more thing about the below. This journalist goes after 10th CD candidates Dold, Green and Seals for their failure, to date. to commit to [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 2:49am EDT
  

• Gov. Edgar endorses Senator Dillard for Governor: Did Edgar make the case?

  Edgar’s endorsement of Sen. Dillard for Governor
  
  Former Governor Jim Edgar, who mentored Senator Kirk Dillard (R-Westmont) when Dillard was Edgar’s Chief of Staff for three years in the early 1990s, endorsed Dillard yesterday for Governor. Has Gov. Edgar, the last Illinois Governor not to be indicted, [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 5:04am EDT
  

• Getting to know Bill Cadigan, Candidate in the IL 10th CD Republican Primary

  Jeff Berkowitz: …Folks, this is a good example because now you know something about [10th CD candidate] Bill Cadigan and how he thinks and how he approaches issues. I say that as a compliment… you couldn’t have learned that from [his] website. You can’t learn that from [10th CD candidate] [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 10:42pm EDT
  

• Better than Chris Wallace w/ Governors Granholm and Daniels: Berkowitz w/10th CD candidate Cadigan on War and the Economy; Cable and soon streaming

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  The "Public Affairs," show featuring attorney Bill Cadigan (R-Winnetka), 10th CD Republican Primary candidate, is airing this week (Week of Oct. 12) in the North and Northwest Chicago Metro suburbs in its regular slot. The suburban airing schedule for Public Affairs is included, below.
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  10th Cong. [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 6:34pm EDT
  

• Better than Conaty and Placko w/ Cong. Kirk:Berkowitz w/ 14th CD Republican Candidate Sen.Randy Hultgren on War,bailouts and vouchers;Cable&Streaming

  Randy Hultgren, State Senator (R-Winfield) and 14th CD Republican Primary candidate: …I think [school] vouchers is a term that is so loaded but again if we can get parental choice— [Watch the show w/Sen. Hultgren]
  
  Jeff Berkowitz: So…if I call them scholarships, then you are okay [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 5:12pm EDT
  

• Tom Roeser slams Obama for the wrong reasons and falls for Mike Huckabee—the wrong man for the Republican Party for 2012

  Roeser’s 2005 flirtations with Senator Bill Brady
  
  My good friend Tom Roeser is at it again. He does this every once in a while, falling head over heels, temporarily, for some pol. Four years ago, about this time of the year, it was then Republican Primary gubernatorial candidate [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 4:44am EDT
  

• Better than Bret Baier w/Brit Hume: Berkowitz w/14th CD candidate Randy Hultgren on bailouts and Afghanistan; Cable and now Streaming

  Jeff Berkowitz:…so you would have been against the bailouts, you would have been against the stimulus. Is there a proposal coming from you and other Republicans that you would have done in place [of those programs] or would you have just said let the natural forces work their way out [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 4:46pm EDT
  

• Jim Ryan: A gubernatorial tax increase in your future?

  Jeff Berkowitz: Implicitly, you support the notion of a 5.5 billion dollar net increase in taxes, right?
  
  Jim Ryan: Right. In principle, I support HB 750, right.
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  Jim Ryan to join Gov race?
  
  As Yogi Berra said, it’s Déjà Vu all over again. Ex-Gov candidate Jim [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 3:47am EDT
  

• Better than Oprah w/ Mayor Daley in Copenhagen: Berkowitz w/Terry O'Brien; Cable and Streaming

  Jeff Berkowitz: Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court, Dorothy Brown, she’s running [for Cook County Board President], see any daylight between your views on taxes and hers?
  
  Terry O’Brien [Candidate for Cook County Board President]: She has also said she’s going to gradually phase it out [the Stroger [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 4:28pm EDT
  

• Senator Steve Rauschenberger seeks to return to Springfield

  Former Republican State Senator Steve Rauschenberger (Elgin) is mounting a comeback to re-take the seat (22nd) he gave up in 2006 to run, unsuccessfully, for his party's nomination for Lt. Gov. He makes the run official when he announces tomorrow from Republican Party Headquarters at 2:00 pm in Elgin. Rauschenberger [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 6:46pm EDT
  

• The most perceptive man Tom Roeser knows-- Tom Roeser?

  My good friend, Tom Roeser, had a cute little piece yesterday in the Chicago Daily Observer (“CDO”), an online daily publication he runs with John Powers [also a friend of mine], a Wilmette entrepreneur who appears to struggle to keep his libertarian and Catholic beliefs at peace with each [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 4:05am EDT
  

• Judge Mikva clarifies his prior decision not to endorse anyone in the IL 10th CD Democratic Primary. Could he reconsider? Why the confusion?

  Former Judge Ab Mikva said to Dan Seals: “Well, I endorsed you when Julie [Hamos] was not a candidate or even thinking about running and you have to treat it as a non-operative endorsement at this point.” So, what does that mean, Mikva said…
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  Judge Abner Mikva confirmed yesterday, [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 1:15am EDT
  

• Better than Chris Wallace w/John McCain: Berkowitz w/ Cook County Board President Candidate Terry O'Brien; Cable and Streaming

  The "Public Affairs," show featuring Terry O'Brien, President of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (D-Chicago) and 2010 candidate for President of the Cook County Board in the Democratic Primary, is airing this week (Week of Sep. 28) in the North and Northwest Chicago Metro suburbs in its regular slot. The' [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 8:05pm EDT
  

• Better than Krashesky w/Preckwinkle: Berkowitz w/David Hoffman discussing National Issues on Cable in Chicago and Aurora; also streaming

  Jeff Berkowitz: $500,000? One million? Two million? Give me a ballpark [of your net worth].
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  Jeff Berkowitz: Card Check, yes or no?
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  Jeff Berkowitz: So, the answer is you’re persuadable. If [President Obama] answered those questions in a good way, in a way that is persuasive to [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 5:44pm EDT
  

• Republican gubernatorial candidates Senators Bill Brady and Kirk Dillard air this week on the Illinois Channel

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  Senator Dillard [Republican Primary gubernatorial candidate]: I just gave you my Republican credentials as ...the Republican Chairman of this place [DuPage County]... My wife’s Great, Great grandfather nominated Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency, was the eulogizer at his funeral and buried him. So, I think I’m a pretty good [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 1:45am EDT
  

• Jon Stewart goes easy on Blago: The liberal witness protection program

  Text revised and links added on Friday at 3:40 pm
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  Yes, we know that the Daily Show goes after Democrats as well as Republicans. But, when Stewart seems to relish eating Republicans for breakfast and then he pulls his punches with and swallows a lot of hogwash from a [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2009, 3:04am EDT
  

• Terry O'Brien: Candidate for President of the Cook County Board: A race about race or taxes? Cable and Streaming

  Terry O’Brien: I’ll release what relates to …the financial statement. I’ll release the financial statement.
  
  Jeff Berkowitz: But, not your tax returns.[Watch the show w/Terry O’Brien, President of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District and candidate for President of the Cook County Board, Democratic Primary.
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  Terry O’Brien: [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2009, 3:00am EDT
  

• Senate Candidate David Hoffman nibbles on ACORNs and much more: Cable and now Streaming

  Jeff Berkowitz: …the federal government has now severed relationships with ACORN for Census work, right?
  
  David Hoffman [U. S. Senate Candidate in the Illinois Democratic Primary]: Um-um. I believe so. watch the interview with Hoffman here.
  
  Jeff Berkowitz: If you had been there, if you [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 4:07am EDT
  

• As good as Berkowitz with Obama? Berkowitz w/ U. S. Senate candidate David Hoffman on Healthcare, Gay Marriage and much more: Cable & soon streaming

  U. S. Senate Candidate David Hoffman (D-Chicago): ..I am in favor of equality. And, I think that means that marriage should allow any two people who want to declare themselves together for the rest of their lives equal under the law
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  Four major Illinois Democrats go for gay marriage [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 4:19pm EDT
  

• Better than Carol Marin w/David Hoffman: Berkowitz w/7th CD candidate Williams-Burnett on Taxes, Jobs, War and much more; Cable and Streaming

  Darlena Williams-Burnett, Chief Deputy Cook County Recorder of Deeds and 7th CD Democratic Primary candidate:
  …[T]his would be me talking to the President, I’d like to see the …American government look at utilizing more diplomacy and some of the things they are doing [in Afghanistan] in terms of creating these [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 1:42pm EDT
  

• Racial politics;7th CD and Cook County Board President intersection;Dr. King’s Dream;President Obama and his opposition;stopping racial discrimination

  Revised text and links to shows with Cook County Board President Candidates and others added on Friday at 3:40 pm
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  Cong. Danny K. Davis (D-Chicago, 7th CD) said he was “seriously concerned about the African-American community and…its political empowerment,” and he would not …”participate in any activity…that [would] [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 4:33am EDT
  

• Better than Phil Ponce w/Cheryle Jackson: Berkowitz w/7th CD Dem Primary Candidate Williams-Burnett on War, Bailouts and Abortion;Cable and Streaming

  Jeff Berkowitz: Would you make your tax returns available to the Public?
  
  Darlena Williams-Burnett, Chief Deputy Recorder of Deeds in Cook County and 7th Cong. Dist. Democratic Primary Candidate: Absolutely, there’s nothing there to hide.
  
  Jeff Berkowitz: Would you tell people your net worth?
  
  Darlena Williams-Burnett: [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 6:35pm EDT
  

• Gubernatorial Candidate Dillard on ethics, corruption and Gov. Quinn; The Ghosts of Christmas past: George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich

  Dillard promises no fundraising for two years if elected Gov
  
  Kirk Dillard, State Senator and Republican Primary gubernatorial candidate, held a press conference yesterday morning at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in the Chicago Loop to discuss his ethics reforms initiatives. The press conference consisted of a [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 2:56am EDT
  

• Better than Stephanopoulos w/Brooks, Will, Sam and Cokie; Berkowitz w/7th CD Candidate State Rep. Collins on War, healthcare and more:Cable&Streaming

  Annazette Collins, State Rep. (D-Chicago) and 7th CD Democratic Primary Candidate: I think that the United States- we have not …done a great job in making sure that everyone is insured…if it comes out that the Public Option is the right thing to do, or the best option, then, yes, [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 6:50pm EDT
  

• Berkowitz and Fox’s Wendell Goler debate the relationship between deficits, stimulus plans and the country’s 9.7% unemployment rate w/ CEA Chair Romer

  Yesterday’s report from the Obama Administration’s Council of Economic Advisers (“CEA”) argues that countries like the U. S. that spent more than others on stimulus programs are achieving better than expected levels and growth rates of Gross Domestic Product (“GDP”). Fox News Channel’s Wendell Goler asked CEA Chair Romer: [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 4:37am EDT
  

• President Obama travels cautiously down the road to Baucuscare

  Our cautious President, Barack Obama, will not announce a “Public Option,” tonight, but the Baucus plan [he is following] puts America on the Road to that, if not On the Road to Serfdom. President Obama will opt for the safe shot, not the risky one...you can take that [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 4:35pm EDT
  

• Better than Dane Placko w/Dan Hynes: Berkowitz w/ 7th CD candidate State Rep. Collins on healthcare, education and war

  Jeff Berkowitz: …Should that person in the City of Chicago be able to own a gun, a handgun, in his home? [Watch the show with 7th CD Democratic Primary candidate Annazette Collins].
  
  Annazette Collins, 7th CD Democratic Primary candidate and State Rep. (D-Chicago): Well, it’s illegal right [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 1:10pm EDT
  

• Heard on the Street: The McKenna run for Governor boomlet hits the pause button

  The faltering establishment candidates
  
  Rumors are continuing that Andy McKenna, Jr., is getting ready to enter the Republican Gubernatorial Primary. The thinking is that the establishment candidates (Senators Brady and Dillard and DuPage County Board Chairman Schillerstrom) are splitting that vote and none of them is likely to [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 3:28am EDT
  

• Better than Schieffer w/Arne Duncan on Face the Nation: Berkowitz w/ Julie Hamos, State Rep. and 10th CD Candidate, Cable and Streaming

  Julie Hamos [State Rep. and 10th CD Democratic Primary Candidate]: I was one of [Barack Obama’s] first supporters up here [on the North Shore].
  
  Jeff Berkowitz: you were big in getting [Obama] the nomination—
  
  Julie Hamos: For the United States Senate [seat].
  
  Jeff Berkowitz: In [...]
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  Posted: September 07, 2009, 6:40pm EDT
  

• Berkowitz joins Senator Roger Keats on Roeser's radio show tonight

  Jeff Berkowitz will join former State Senator Roger Keats, 2010 Republican Primary candidate for Cook County Board President, as a guest tonight on Tom Roeser’s weekly, Sunday, call-in radio show, Political Shoot-out, WLS 890 AM Radio, from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
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  Posted: September 06, 2009, 12:39am EDT
  

• Yesterday’s Conservative Summit winners: Andrzewejski, Murphy and Proft, the IL GOP youth movement.

  Supplemented, revised, typos corrected and links added on Saturday night at 8:00 pm
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  Senator Dillard: I just gave you my Republican credentials as ...the Republican Chairman of this place [DuPage County]... My wife’s Great, Great grandfather nominated Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency, was the eulogizer at his funeral and [...]
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  Posted: September 05, 2009, 8:25am EDT
  

• A tale of two Illinois Gubernatorial Candidates on taxes: Two Dans, Dan Hynes and Dan Proft

  Proft and Hynes: An issue contrast
  
  Here is a contrast I bet no MSM member noticed. Not Carol Marin [Host, WTTW], not Bruce Dold[Tribune], not Laura Washington[Sun-Times] and not Mick Dumke[Reader]. Each of whom appeared last night on "Chicago Tonight," to discuss the Guv Primaries, the U. S. Senate [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 4:25am EDT
  

• Better than Rachel Maddow w/ Cong. Mark Kirk: Berkowitz w/ Julie Hamos, IL 10th CD Democratic Primary Candidate and State Rep.; Cable and Streaming

  Jeff Berkowitz: …your rival [in the Democratic Primary], Dan Seals, was asked that question [essentially] in 2005…by Lee Goodman [the 2004 Democratic Nominee in the 10th CD race]… and the answer Seals gave was he’d come down “on the side of peace.” Is that a good answer? Do you differ [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2009, 3:19pm EDT
  

• Better than Fox's Conaty and Placko w/John Kass: Berkowitz w/ Dan Proft on School Choice, lower taxes, original sin and much more; Cable and Streaming

  Dan Proft[Republican Primary candidate for Governor]: I was born with original sin as a Catholic and I’ve added to it considerably over my 37 years. [Watch show w/Proft here]
  
  Jeff Berkowitz: But, any personal blemishes that are comparable to …
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  Jeff Berkowitz: [The State] is in [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 4:23pm EDT
  

• Better than Bears Football w/ Jay Cutler, Berkowitz w/ Republican Guv Candidate Dan Proft on Cable and Streaming-- An all new show

  Dan Proft [Republican Primary Gubernatorial Candidate]: I would move to cut the [state] income tax rate. [Watch Proft here]
  
  Jeff Berkowitz: To what?
  
  Dan Proft: I’d move to try to cut it in half.
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  Dan Proft:...The only way Illinois is viable short term or [...]
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  Posted: August 25, 2009, 4:02pm EDT
  

• Advantage Cong. Mark Kirk: the centrist candidate in the U. S. Senate race

  Kirk’s double header SRO town hall meeting
  
  On the same day, yesterday, that the Obama Administration shifted its focus from healthcare reform to prosecution of former CIA interrogators in Iraq, Cong. Mark Steven Kirk (R-Highland Park, 10th CD) held a doubleheader town hall meeting to discuss why he [...]
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  Posted: August 25, 2009, 7:06am EDT
  

• Better than a Cong. Mark Kirk Doubleheader Town Hall Healthcare Meeting: 7th CD Dem. Primary Candidate State Rep. La Shawn Ford, Cable and Streaming

  Jeff Berkowitz: You would support “Cap and Trade.”
  
  State Rep. La Shawn K. Ford (D-Chicago): I would support "Cap and Trade." Watch the show with State Rep. and 7th CD Dem. Primary candidate La Shawn Ford on your computer.
  
  Jeff Berkowitz: And, you don’t think people [...]
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  Posted: August 24, 2009, 8:02pm EDT
  

• Berkowitz w/Republican Primary gubernatorial candidate Dan Proft airing on the Illinois Channel this week

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  This week's Illinois Channel program features interviews with Republican Primary candidates Senator Bill Brady (R-Bloomington) and Senator Kirk Dillard (R-Westmont).
  These interviews will air this week throughout the State of Illinois from Monday thru Sunday on the Illinois Channel. You can watch them on the web through Sunday on' [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 2:30pm EDT
  

• Berkowitz joins Cong. Danny Davis on State Rep. La Shawn Ford’s WVON Radio show, "Voice of the People," this Sunday night.

  Jeff Berkowitz joins Cong. Danny Davis (D-Chicago, 7th CD) this Sunday night as a guest on host State Rep. La Shawn K. Ford’s WVON radio show, “The Voice of the People.” The show airs from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm on WVON 1690 AM-Radio. You can call in at 773-591-1690. [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 1:53pm EDT
  

• Berkowitz Eye on Jackson-Giannoulias Senate Race, Part 2

  In Part 1 of the Berkowitz Eye on the Jackson-Giannoulias U. S. Senate Democratic Primary race, we focused on Laura Washington's suggestion that Cheryle Jackson is leapfrogging over other African-American leaders in her "rookie run," for political office.
  
  The remaining critique of Laura Washington’s assessment of Cheryle' [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 3:50am EDT
  

• Chicago Urban League President Cheryle Jackson and State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias: Either ready for a prime time U. S. Senate bid?

  Is Cheryl Jackson Leapfrogging over other African-American, would be Senate Candidates?
  
  Laura Washington took a sharp swipe in her column this week at Cheryle Jackson. As Washington put it, “political rookie,” Jackson is trying to “leapfrog,” over generations of African-American political leadership in her bid for the Democratic [...]
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  Posted: August 20, 2009, 3:19am EDT
  

• Better than Fox's Placko w/Cong. Davis: Berkowitz w/7th CD Dem. Primary Candidate Rep.La Shawn Ford on Cable and Streaming

  State Rep. and 7th CD Dem. Primary candidate La Shawn Ford: Well, you know, I am a Catholic and I believe that we have to protect life and preserve life. Watch the show with State Rep. and 7th CD Dem. Primary candidate La Shawn Ford on your computer.
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 4:03pm EDT
  

• Better than WTTW's Phil Ponce w/Cheryle Jackson, Berkowitz w/ Cmsr. Larry Suffredin on "Saving Cook County," Cable and Streaming

  Jeff Berkowitz: … most people thought this Cook County Board [President] race was going to be about, at least in part, some would say in large part, the [Cook County] sales tax increase.
  
  Cmsr. Larry Suffredin (D-Evanston): That’s a minor part of it. [Watch the show w/Cook County [...]
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  Posted: August 17, 2009, 6:47pm EDT
  

• Better than Christian Farr on NBC-5 News: Berkowitz w/ 7th CD Dem.Primary candidate La Shawn Ford on jobs,minimum wages and much more. Now Streaming

  Jeff Berkowitz: Do you support that woman’s right to choose?
  
  State Rep. La Shawn K. Ford (D-Chicago): You know I support----life. [Watch the show here w/ 7th CD candidate La Shawn Ford]
  
  Jeff Berkowitz: …Well, if you support life, some people [with that view] would say [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2009, 4:05am EDT
  

• Berkowitz w/ Cmsr. Larry Suffredin, 2010 Democratic Cook County Board President Primary candidate, now Streaming

  Jeff Berkowitz: This is a government [Cook County] that you’re going to get down from…24,500 employees to 22,000?
  
  Cmsr. Larry Suffredin (D-Evanston): It is easily done.
  
  Jeff Berkowitz: You don’t like Todd Stroger, you like Mayor Daley? 1 to 10, what would you give Mayor Daley?
  
  [...]
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  Posted: August 13, 2009, 2:32pm EDT
  

• Better than Fox's Placko and Conaty w/ Rep. Hamos: Berkowitz w/Cmsr. Suffredin, Candidate for Cook County Board President, Cable and Soon Streaming

  Updated at 11:15 am on Thursday, August 13, 2009: You can now watch the show w/2010 Democratic Cook County Board President Primary candidate Larry Suffredin here.
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  Jeff Berkowitz: … We’re making news…You watch Public Affairs … because we make news…most people thought this Cook County Board [President] [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 7:41pm EDT
  

• Better than George Stephanopoulos w/Peggy Noonan, Cokie Roberts, et al: Berkowitz w/Art Laffer and Steve Moore, on Cable Tonight and Streaming

  Art Laffer [former Reagan economics adviser]: We all want to see the poor do well. But, you don’t make the poor rich by making the rich poor. The dream in America has never been to make Beverly Hills look like Watts. The dream is...[Watch the show w/ Laffer and [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 7:35pm EDT
  

• State Rep. Julie Hamos gears up to become Congresswoman Hamos

  Links added and text corrected on Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 3:30am to reflect, as indicated below, that Dan Seal's losing vote total against Cong. Kirk in the 10th CD 2008 general election improved to 47.4%--up slightly from his 2006 46.6% performance[See vote totals at close of the' [...]
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  Posted: July 29, 2009, 3:27am EDT
  

• Berkowitz w/ State Rep. Mike Boland, a possible Lt. Gov. candidate in the 2010 Democratic Primary, Cable and Streaming

  Jeff Berkowitz: …President Joseph White, he’s the President of the University of Illinois, he’s supposed to know what’s going on, should he be fired for what’s going on [regarding clouted admissions] at the University of Illinois?
  
  State Rep. Mike Boland [D-Moline], possible candidate for Lt. Gov. in the 2010 [...]
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  Posted: July 27, 2009, 8:02pm EDT
  

• Berkowitz w/Dorothy Brown, Circuit Court Clerk and Cook County Board President Candidate in the 2010 Democratic Primary, Cable and Streaming

  Jeff Berkowitz: Some people said [employment in Cook County Government] should have gone from 26,000 to 22,000 employees [in last 2 ½ years; under President Todd Stroger, it went from 26,000 to 24,500. Would you take a pledge to knock it down from 24,500 to 22,000 employees?
  
  Dorothy Brown, [...]
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  Posted: July 27, 2009, 5:22pm EDT
  

• Berkowitz to join John Powers on tomorrow night's Tom Roeser radio show.

  Jeff Berkowitz will join John Powers, Innovative businessman and Publisher of the iconoclastic Chicago Daily Observer as a guest tomorrow night on Tom Roeser’s weekly, Sunday, call-in radio show, Political Shoot-out, WLS 890 AM Radio, from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
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  Posted: July 25, 2009, 7:31pm EDT
  

• Latest double feature at the "Public Affairs Cinema:"Dorothy Brown, Candidate for County Board Pres. and State Rep. Mike Boland (R), Streaming now

  This Monday night's City of Chicago edition of Public Affairs features Dorothy Brown, Circuit Court Clerk of Cook County and Candidate for President of the Cook County Board in the 2010 Democratic Primary. The show, hosted by Executive Legal Recruiter Jeff Berkowitz, focuses on a broad range of Cook County' [...]
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  Posted: July 25, 2009, 5:47pm EDT
  

• State Rep. Julie Hamos likely to become the 10th Cong. Dist. Democratic Primary frontrunner on Tuesday

  Links added and text corrected on Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 3:30am to reflect, as indicated below, that Dan Seal's losing vote total against Cong. Kirk in the 10th CD 2008 general election improved to 47.4%--up slightly from his 2006 46.6% performance[See vote totals at close of the' [...]
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  Posted: July 25, 2009, 1:42pm EDT
  

• Flashback to 2003 and 2004: Real Dialogues with Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama, unlike last night’s Obama Press Conf. aka Obama Kabuki Theater, Act 5

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  Cong. Rahm Emanuel: Well, the reason you—what is the largest single factor to the healthcare inflation? The uninsured. They drive the cost—
  
  Jeff Berkowitz: What about the fact that a great many people don’t pay for [their healthcare]. That is, a third party pays. Don’t you think that’s [...]
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  Posted: July 23, 2009, 4:29am EDT
  

• Better than Rachel Maddow w/Shawn Hannity: Berkowitz w/Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown on her race for County Board President,Cable & soon Streaming

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  This week’s suburban edition of Public Affairs features Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County Dorothy Brown. Clerk Brown is a declared candidate for Cook County Board President in the 2010 Democratic Primary. Topics discussed with Jeff Berkowitz, show host and Executive Legal Recruiter, include the Gang of [...]
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  Posted: July 21, 2009, 6:43pm EDT
  

• Reflections on Cong. Kirk's announcement of his Senate bid, growing up in Kenilworth, Kirk's opponents, quips by Kirk and Gov. Jim Edgar

  This post contains a discussion of yesterday’s announcement by Cong. Mark Steven Kirk (R-Highland Park) that he will be a candidate in the Feb. 2, 2010 U. S. Senate Republican Primary. It also contains media analysis, commentary on Kirk's current Republican Senate Primary rivals, commentary on potential candidates for the' [...]
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  Posted: July 21, 2009, 5:44pm EDT
  

• Better than David Gregory w/ Mitch McConnell: Berkowitz w/Cook County Board President Todd Stroger; Cable and Streaming

  Jeff Berkowitz: So, that would be four African-Americans who are running and seem to be critical of you, …you’re not going to accuse these folks of being racist, are you? Because they’re African-Americans.
  
  President Todd Stroger: Well, you don’t have to be any certain color to be a [...]
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  Posted: July 20, 2009, 5:19pm EDT
  

• Of Frank Knight, Gov. Quinn, government regulation and grave robbers

  Jeff Berkowitz: Governor...Prosecute the wrongdoers, make an example of them—and that will deter, but you cannot prevent every wrong act by having a large regulatory apparatus...
  
  Governor Quinn: ...I think that we have seen in our country a rise in for-profit cemeteries owned by large corporations who own [...]
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  Posted: July 17, 2009, 4:27am EDT
  

• Better than Dellimore w/ Ald. Toni Preckwinkle: Berkowitz w/ President Todd Stroger, Cable and Soon Streaming

  Jeff Berkowitz: I thought you were saying [now] you would favor a repeal of a quarter of that penny increase [in taxes], right?
  
  President Todd Stroger: You know, I said that at first, but now I see that we’re having more costs. [Watch the show with President Todd [...]
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  Posted: July 14, 2009, 8:14pm EDT
  

• The detrimental effects on employment of raising the minimum wage

  As discussed here, Dan Rutherford, State Senator (R-Pontiac) and Illinois 2010 State Treasurer Republican Primary candidate, today gave a very real world example of how Illinois' high minimum wage tends to cause jobs to go to states with lower state minimum wages. In a very timely piece, the [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2009, 9:10pm EDT
  

• Better than Carol Marin w/ Lisa Madigan: Berkowitz w/Ald. Preckwinkle, Cable and Streaming

  The "Public Affairs," show featuring Chicago Ald. Toni Preckwinkle, candidate for President of the Cook County Board in the 2010 Democratic Primary, airs throughout the City of Chicago tonight at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21(CANTV, aka Chicago Access Network TV). Ald. Preckwinkle debates and discusses "City of Chicago and" [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2009, 8:14pm EDT
  

• Senator Dan Rutherford, running for Illinois State Treasurer, argues the high Illinois minimum wage causes job loss in Illinois.

  State Senator Dan Rutherford [R-Pontiac] is holding several media availabilities upstate and downstate today to discuss the official start of his campaign for State Treasurer in the 2010 Republican Primary. His press release states, “In addition to being a good steward of the resources in the Treasury, I intend to [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2009, 2:54pm EDT
  

• WTTW’s Chicago Week in Review: Liberal media bias or simply, wacky errors in its portrayal and analysis of the 2010 Republican field for Governor?

  Revised at 1:10 pm on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 to correct an erroneous or "poorly worded statement," by the author of this blog, Berkowitz, about Dan Hynes' intentions for 2010. See discussion, below, of the WTTW graphic listing Hynes as a potential guv candidate.
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  WTTW misplaces' [...]
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  Posted: July 11, 2009, 10:49pm EDT
  

• Eye on Local TV news coverage of politics/public policy: How important is a Gov. Quinn presser to 2, 5, 7, 11 and 12?

  Electronic media coverage
  
  In general, the local electronic media seem to do what they can to hype government budget deficit, tax and spend issues, especially on the state and local level, if they are going to cover government fiscal issues at all. Their efforts mostly seem to focus on [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2009, 3:50am EDT
  

• Gov. Quinn proposes a billion dollar cut in spending and initiates 2600 layoffs; Is there an alternative to Quinn's income tax increase?

  Gov. Quinn initiates state employee layoffs and seeks to negotiate furloughs with unions
  
  Gov. Quinn used a veto, today, of a four billion dollar appropriations bill that funded state operations as a vehicle to “recommend,” to the General Assembly one billion dollars in spending cuts. However, in addition to [...]
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  Posted: July 08, 2009, 4:56am EDT
  

• Better than Dane Placko w/Cmsr. Suffredin: Berkowitz w/Chicago Ald. Preckwinkle, Cable and Soon Streaming

  UPDATE: You can now watch the show with Ald. Preckwinkle streaming.
  
  Links added at 2:30 am on Wednesday.
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  Jeff Berkowitz: Torture of criminal defendants in the City of Chicago by the Chicago police, did Mayor Daley know about that when he was State’s attorney?
  
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  Posted: July 07, 2009, 3:46am EDT
  

• Better than Chris Wallace w/Rove and Adm. Mullen: Berkowitz w/Art Laffer and Steve Moore, Cable & Streaming

  Art Laffer [Watch Laffer and Moore discuss President Obama's economic policies]: When I look at this world… and you see a little five year old girl in Appalachia or in inner city south side of Chicago who lives with drug addicted parents who are separated and are always on' [...]
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  Posted: July 06, 2009, 3:07am EDT