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Within the past couple days, the Illinois Family Institute and the Topinka Tattler listed bullet points comparing and contrasting the two major party candidates for Illinois governor this November. As a public service…
Read MoreThe press is probably not welcome, but the rest of you are: Judy Baar Topinka – Volunteer Opportunity Please join us at the Citizens for Topinka Chicago Campaign Headquarters (312 West Randolph) on Tuesday,…
Read MoreABC 7 News quotes Topinka commenting on Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman’s primary loss: “As you drum out the moderates of the Democratic party, and Republicans have a tendency to do it to their moderates…
Read MoreNot long ago we did a little math – and the numbers we added up are worth revisiting since the total hasn’t changed. The cumulative years of service of the Republican members of the…
Read MoreWe struggled to come up with a headline for this post. We filtered out a few before arriving at the one chosen above. Our favorite was: “Topinka proposes radical idea: take yet more money from working…
Read MoreA “big box” regulation passes the Chicago City Council…BP Amoco shuts down a pipeline and gas prices rise…property taxes or income taxes rise or there’s a threat to raise them…Topinka issues an “economic plan.”…
Read MoreOne of the failed gubernatorial candidates from last March’s Republican primary rejected some good advice about a year ago. The simple suggestion was to admit that Republicans have been a part of the problem…
Read MoreOur concentration is typically focused on Illinois political and governmental matters. National issues – and especially foreign policy – we leave to our allies with larger budgets and bigger staffs. Occasionally, however, events occur or words are…
Read MoreThere’s at least one former advisor to Jim Edgar that’s being honest in an assessment about the problem with Blagojevich—and in so doing, implying the solution Topinka would bring. A year ago Mike Lawrence, who heads…
Read MoreTomorrow is August—so time is running out on U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald—he only has a little more than three months left to win this campaign for Topinka and Birkett. Speaking of poor strategic decisions on…
Read MoreYesterday in an editorial the Belleville News-Democrat yelled at the Blagojevich administration for it’s “cavalier” attitude regarding Illinois’ fiscal realities. Part of the problem, the editorial stated, is due to “all his spending.” The editorial referenced a…
Read MoreBy John Biver What kind of “Economic Plan” do you propose if you’re running for governor after serving a quarter century in state government but still have no idea what to do about the…
Read MoreImagine this scenario: a state in the union with a direction-less, idea-less, and principle-lacking Republican party. Now imagine that in that same state’s largest city resides the nation’s best state-level think tank. Can you conjure that…
Read MoreCan Judy Baar Topinka match Alan Keyes’ Election Day performance? Circumstances make this a serious question. There’s a good chance Topinka might set a new low for an Illinois governor’s race just like Keyes did…
Read MoreBy Jim Burns: They’re still ‘nattering nabobs of negativism.’
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