102 Precinct Strategy: help take back Chicago Suburbs

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Monday March 11, 2013 · 10:51 PM PDT

2013/03/11 · 22:51

Was there ever any doubt about Gov. Dean's 50 State Strategy? Please help some dedicated progressives implement that same concept on the most local of levels in Wheeling Township, Illinois.

Our local elections are coming up on April 9th -- less than a month to go -- and our canvassing, phone banking and overall 102 Precinct Strategy is in full swing. We're in the midst of our final push fundraising drive with a goal of raising $3000 online between now and Election Day in less than a month.

This is a township that Republicans have dominated for most of the past century. But the tide is turning and right now, if a supermajority of Democrats gets out to vote in our upcoming local election, we can sweep all 8 township positions.

More info below the fold.

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Friday November 07, 2008 · 7:59 AM PST

2008/11/07 · 07:59

(Originally posted at Illinois Reason.)

Somebody help! We keep getting attacked with too many facts and this thing called "the truth"! Ahhh! Noooo! Make it stop!!!

We should've known it wouldn't take but 36 hours for Illinois Review to begin lying about members of the forthcoming Obama Administration, in this case Chicago's own Rahm Emanuel, designated Chief of Staff. It wasn't but an hour or two before one of their own, Mark Rhoads, went off on a rant about every magic unicorn he could think of to explain how, in the Bizarro Ill Reviewer World, Obama couldn't possibly have won this landslide without some sort of criminal enterprise doing it for him.

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How long will it take for this fake story to hit the big time

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5-7 days

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Echo. Echo. Echo.

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Comprehensive Media List... Just in Case

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Friday September 26, 2008 · 4:23 PM PDT

2008/09/26 · 16:23

Four years ago we all got ready for the Kerry-Bush debates, having learned the lessons of 2000 that it's not who actually does better during the debate but whose campaign staff and sympathetic pundits do better spinning after the debate.

I got an email back from one of the Chicago Tribune's reporters the night of the first Kerry-Bush debate, asking what was up with all the emails he got and noting that we sank his battleship by cramming his inbox full of our own take on the debate.

We may need to do that again, given the sway that McCain's "Distraction First" campaign has been playing the game all season long.

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How often do you contact the media?

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How often do you contact the media?

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Once or twice a week

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A few times a month

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A few times a quarter

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What's a newspaper?

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ACTION: Late nite donation for a 50-state nation

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Thursday June 12, 2008 · 11:44 PM PDT

2008/06/12 · 23:44

A month back a few of us folks in the northwest Chicago suburbs launched an online fundraising drive for our local township Democratic organization. We got a bit more than half-way to our goal and due to a variety of events I ended up putting it on the back-burner.

Well, back-burner no more... I'm asking you to help me bring it to a boil.

Our goal is very modest: only $750. But, the results would be huge.

$750 was chosen because that's about how much it costs to keep the local Dem office open. What's that you say? Just another office? Big whoop? Read on...

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Thursday May 15, 2008 · 4:13 AM PDT

2008/05/15 · 04:13

This is a repost of yesterday's diary, which seemed to attract the lunch crowd. Hopefully today, the breakfast crowd will have a chance to offer their help.

Plus, we were issued a challenge by a Second Amendment fan yesterday afternoon. (This fundraiser has nothing to do with 2A, but the guy seems to be a critic of the low-dollar goal and our -- ahem -- "pace" in meeting that goal.)

Read the repost of yesterday's request below the fold.

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Wednesday May 14, 2008 · 10:18 AM PDT

2008/05/14 · 10:18

"My friends..."

If you believe in the 50-state strategy and value the work of grassroots volunteers organizing in our neighborhoods and communities all across the country, please help keep one of those local efforts going this year.

I and a few friends have been trying to raise funds online for the Wheeling Township Democrats for a few days now. This is vitally important because our Dem organization is smack dab in the middle of Chicago's historically Republican northwest suburbs.

I say "historically" because, thanks to the hard work of many people (one hard-nosed individual in particular), this neck of the woods is definitely turning purple, if not downright blue.

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Tuesday May 13, 2008 · 7:22 AM PDT

2008/05/13 · 07:22

(Note: I didn't see this diaried yet. If it has been I'll delete this one.

I've been posting about our local fundraising efforts the past few days, but this smear by Republicans John Boehner and Eric Cantor seemed more important.)

While it's despicable that GOP "leaders" such as Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) would choose to slice out only the few phrases that would make the presumptive Democratic nominee for president look bad (and they have to actually ignore those phrases' real intent even at that), it's equally deplorable that a well-respected journalist such as the Sun-Times' Washington Bureau chief and political columnist Lynn Sweet would let them get away with the distorted half-quoting via her own half-baked he-said/they-said stenography at her to-the-minute blog.

[FYI, Lynn Sweet has been a Chris Matthews regular as she has covered the Obama campaign from one of his hometown papers for well over a year.]

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Monday May 12, 2008 · 10:08 AM PDT

2008/05/12 · 10:08

We're more than a third of the way through our fundraising to honor Pat Botterman's legacy and more than a third toward our goal -- right on track.

If you haven't already, please donate what you can.

As if you needed a reminder of Pat's impact on our little neck of the woods, check out the impromptu eulogies left at Capitol Fax when Rich Miller reported on his death... A lot of heartfelt mourning, for good reason, from Dems, Republicans, family and friends.

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Friday May 09, 2008 · 7:22 AM PDT

2008/05/09 · 07:22

I introduced the Wheeling Township Dems Donor Drive online yesterday as a way to honor my friend and well-known Illinois Dem "operative" Pat Botterman.

Wow, one day down and only 9 to go and already the Wheeling Dems Donor Drive is off to a great start. That, of course, is thanks in no small part to the wonderful help of local activist and Botterman Alum Aaron Krager over at Faithfully Liberal who set up a goal of $250 over the next ten days.

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What will you pledge to contribute?

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What will you pledge to contribute?

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From $20 to $49

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$50 to $99 works for me

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$100 or more is my commitment to local, grassroots volunteers

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As long as it's got the .01, I'm good

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Wheeling Dems donor drive - 50 state strategy in action

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Thursday May 08, 2008 · 3:10 PM PDT

2008/05/08 · 15:10

In 10 days, the Wheeling and Palatine Township Democrats will be hosting a joint fundraiser (PDF) to help cover costs for keeping the only Democratic office in the northwest suburbs up and running.

The Wheeling Dems in particular will also be awarding the First Annual Pat Botterman Leadership Award to honor the legacy of the late, great Wheeling Township Committeman who died suddenly on March 10th.

Over the next 10 days, leading up to the brunch fundraiser, I'll be asking folks to help out the Wheeling Dems with a wee bit of a virtual fundraiser.

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Do you know a "Pat Botterman" -- someone tirelessly working to improve your community?

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Do you know a "Pat Botterman" -- someone tirelessly working to improve your community?

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No, but I wish I did

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Illinois Blogs Recap Rezko & Obama: Not Much There There, UPDATED

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Wednesday January 23, 2008 · 5:00 PM PST

2008/01/23 · 17:00

Two Illinois poliblog institutions, The Capitol Fax Blog (by political journalist Rich Miller) and ArchPundit (by political blogger Larry Handlin), are producing primers for the American people and the self-proclaimed media of record (not that the "national" media feels a need to be bothered with actual details when there's a good soap opera to splash some ink on).

For those interested in learning just what Sen. Barack Obama's not-very-much-of-a-relationship with Chicago developer Tony Rezko is, read up...

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Tuesday January 15, 2008 · 8:23 AM PST

2008/01/15 · 08:23

Boo hoo.

Illinois Review editor Fran Eaton is rather upset that her bud John Bambenek is again being pilloried as a fool for his incredibly dense lack of reasoning when it comes to the application of electoral law. For some reason her dour mood has led her to pull a completely idiotic Potemkin argument out of her cracker jack box of irrational rants by suggesting that the American folks over at Daily Kos must be overly violent due to ... video games.

What?!

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John Bambenek has a similar poll posted at his own "Part-Time Pundit" blog, let's play along... Do you think Illinois' Conservative Dunces should be subject to common sense?

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John Bambenek has a similar poll posted at his own "Part-Time Pundit" blog, let's play along... Do you think Illinois' Conservative Dunces should be subject to common sense?

1 vote

Something about a fiery car crash

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Yes

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Illinois' silly conservative partisans should be abolished

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(And here's my own...) Please, conserv-o-partisans, keep posting this high comedy -- we love it!

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