Saturday, January 12, 2008
Not Quite as Good as McBeaney, But Not Bad
Randi Scheurer, 8th congressional district Democratic Party primary challenger to two-term incumbent Melissa Bean has issued the press release below.
In it she plays off her husband’s calling Bean and Republican opponent Dave McSweeney “McBeaney.”
Bill Scheurer’s campaign sewed two big Beanie Babies together to create a half-elephant, half-donkey called “McBeaney.” They called it a “donkephant.” A huge one went to parades.
Now, Randi Scheurer’s campaign seems to have re-named the mutant “BeanBerg.”
It certainly is catchy.
I picked this out of the press release below:
BeanBerg vs. McBeaney?
Republican candidate Steve Greenberg rightfully “outed” incumbent Democrat Melissa Bean (IL-8TH Congressional District) for taking over $146,000 in campaign cash from lobbyists and employees of Canadian National Railroad and other interested companies while failing to challenge that corporation’s efforts to buy the local Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad.
This sale will swell congestion and delays on local roads, which already suffer some of the worst traffic patterns in the nation.
We’ve seen this movie before. Greenberg is now learning in 2008 what Republican challenger Dave McSweeney learned in 2006. Bean has the big corporate donors sewed up.
“She has eaten their lunch,” says Randi Scheurer who is challenging Bean in the Democratic Party primary on February 5. “The corporate cash that usually goes to Republican campaigns has been pouring into Bean’s coffers for years. They know they can count on her to vote their interests.”
In 2006, independent critics of the basic sameness of Democrat Bean and Republican McSweeney lumped them together as “McBeaney” and followed them around in parades with a “donkephant” suit – half donkey, and half elephant – to illustrate the point.
“Unless we Democrats dump Bean in the primary, it will be the same thing again,” says Bob Friend, Democratic candidate for Lake County Board-Dist. 17, who supports Scheurer. “We’d have to break out the ‘McBeaney’ suit and rename it ‘BeanBerg’ this time. Fortunately, we have Randi.”
In it she plays off her husband’s calling Bean and Republican opponent Dave McSweeney “McBeaney.”Bill Scheurer’s campaign sewed two big Beanie Babies together to create a half-elephant, half-donkey called “McBeaney.” They called it a “donkephant.” A huge one went to parades.
Now, Randi Scheurer’s campaign seems to have re-named the mutant “BeanBerg.”
It certainly is catchy.I picked this out of the press release below:
” Greenberg is now learning in 2008 what Republican challenger Dave McSweeney learned in 2006. Bean has the big corporate donors sewed up.”2006 Redux:
BeanBerg vs. McBeaney?
Republican candidate Steve Greenberg rightfully “outed” incumbent Democrat Melissa Bean (IL-8TH Congressional District) for taking over $146,000 in campaign cash from lobbyists and employees of Canadian National Railroad and other interested companies while failing to challenge that corporation’s efforts to buy the local Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad.
This sale will swell congestion and delays on local roads, which already suffer some of the worst traffic patterns in the nation.We’ve seen this movie before. Greenberg is now learning in 2008 what Republican challenger Dave McSweeney learned in 2006. Bean has the big corporate donors sewed up.
“She has eaten their lunch,” says Randi Scheurer who is challenging Bean in the Democratic Party primary on February 5. “The corporate cash that usually goes to Republican campaigns has been pouring into Bean’s coffers for years. They know they can count on her to vote their interests.”
In 2006, independent critics of the basic sameness of Democrat Bean and Republican McSweeney lumped them together as “McBeaney” and followed them around in parades with a “donkephant” suit – half donkey, and half elephant – to illustrate the point.
“Unless we Democrats dump Bean in the primary, it will be the same thing again,” says Bob Friend, Democratic candidate for Lake County Board-Dist. 17, who supports Scheurer. “We’d have to break out the ‘McBeaney’ suit and rename it ‘BeanBerg’ this time. Fortunately, we have Randi.”
Labels: BeanBerg, Donkephant, McBeaney
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Melissa Bean To Get Scheurer Primary and General Election Challenges over War Funding Vote
Last night as I was listening to reactions to the Defense appropriations bill votes, I sent2006 8th congressional district candidate for Congress Bill Scheurer an email asking if he had put out a press release.
Come to find out, he and his wife Randi have one, complete with snappy new logo for he "Honk for Peace" web site and sure to stimulate speculation for Republicans.
It follows:
This week, Bean joined a small minority of Democrats, and all but two Republicans, in voting to give the Bush administration another “blank check” for the war -- which includes, and fully funds, the escalation of hostilities -- having previously joined a solid Democratic majority in a symbolic vote opposing this same surge.
In the words of Sue Udry, Legislative Coordinator for the national coalition United for Peace & Justice,
This constant capitulation on the war has led the Scheurer family of Lake County to prepare another electoral challenge to Bean in 2008, only this time with a twist.
In 2006, Bill Scheurer ran as the independent Moderate Party candidate in the general election, getting over 5% of the vote and earning that party a guaranteed ballot slot for 2008. He intends to run again as an independent in the November 2008 election.
However, this time, his wife Randi Scheurer, a strong antiwar activist herself and a key force in her husband’s 2006 campaign, plans to run in the Democratic primary.
“I want to give Democratic voters a chance for something better,” she says. “If they are against the war, now they have a candidate to choose instead of the incumbent.”
The couple will spend Saturday May 26, with their Military Families Speak Out group attending the “Eyes Wide Open” exhibit at Grant Park in Chicago. Their son is an Iraq War veteran, and their daughter was a Captain in the U.S. Army.
This stirring, silent memorial displays a pair of combat boots for every American soldier who died in the war, numbering nearly 3,500 sets of boots by now.
Interested people can reach both campaigns at the www.honk4peace.org website.
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The top picture is Bill Scheurer at the Lake County Fair with McBeaney, a donkephant. Don't you wonder what the combination donkey and elephant will be named next year?
Below left is a photo of Randi Scheurer taken at the only debate after Labor Day that Melissa Bean would allow. It was held at McHenry County College and sponsored by the Northwest Herald.
Come to find out, he and his wife Randi have one, complete with snappy new logo for he "Honk for Peace" web site and sure to stimulate speculation for Republicans.
It follows:
LAKE COUNTY, IL - May 26, 2007
Contact: Randi Scheurer, 847-245-1421, rjscheurer@comcast.net
This week, Bean joined a small minority of Democrats, and all but two Republicans, in voting to give the Bush administration another “blank check” for the war -- which includes, and fully funds, the escalation of hostilities -- having previously joined a solid Democratic majority in a symbolic vote opposing this same surge.
In the words of Sue Udry, Legislative Coordinator for the national coalition United for Peace & Justice,
"People have been dismayed to realize that Democrats and Republicans who have opposed the escalation of the number of troops in Iraq will still fund that escalation. Those who have decried the president's mismanagement of the war, are now willing to fund that mismanagement, with absolutely no accountability."Bean also voted against another Democratic measure earlier this month that called for a binding timetable to end the war and bring our troops home.
This constant capitulation on the war has led the Scheurer family of Lake County to prepare another electoral challenge to Bean in 2008, only this time with a twist.In 2006, Bill Scheurer ran as the independent Moderate Party candidate in the general election, getting over 5% of the vote and earning that party a guaranteed ballot slot for 2008. He intends to run again as an independent in the November 2008 election.
However, this time, his wife Randi Scheurer, a strong antiwar activist herself and a key force in her husband’s 2006 campaign, plans to run in the Democratic primary.“I want to give Democratic voters a chance for something better,” she says. “If they are against the war, now they have a candidate to choose instead of the incumbent.”
The couple will spend Saturday May 26, with their Military Families Speak Out group attending the “Eyes Wide Open” exhibit at Grant Park in Chicago. Their son is an Iraq War veteran, and their daughter was a Captain in the U.S. Army.
This stirring, silent memorial displays a pair of combat boots for every American soldier who died in the war, numbering nearly 3,500 sets of boots by now.
Interested people can reach both campaigns at the www.honk4peace.org website.
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The top picture is Bill Scheurer at the Lake County Fair with McBeaney, a donkephant. Don't you wonder what the combination donkey and elephant will be named next year?
Below left is a photo of Randi Scheurer taken at the only debate after Labor Day that Melissa Bean would allow. It was held at McHenry County College and sponsored by the Northwest Herald.
Labels: Bill Scheurer, Donkephant, McBeaney, Melissa Bean
Sunday, July 30, 2006
JimRod, the Two-Headed Chicken
Moderate Party candidate Bill Scheurer, the peace candidate who actually intimidated Mike Madigan's Democratic Party into not challenging his petitions in the 8th congressional district, came up with a campaign gimmick that apparently only I think is a good idea.Scheurer unveiled McBeaney, a donkephant, at the Lake County Fair, but McHenry County Blog is the only place I can find a picture of it.
For more McHenry County Blog, click here.
It reminded me of JimRod, a creature used in our 2002 Libertarian Party campaign for governor of Illinois.The Illinois League of Women Voters announced that it would invite any candidate who could achieve a 5% support level in a non-candidate poll. We advertised in August before anyone else and actually reached that goal in the Daily Southtown’s first poll.
Then, Jim and Rod, chickens that they were, decided not to accept the League’s invitation. Anyone want to guess why?
So, on the day of the first debate, we unveiled JimRod in Chicago and Rockford, where the first debate was being held.
Not only did we have a costumed two-headed chicken, which cost a lot less than I thought it would—but it looks a bit weak, somehow representative of the two power party candidates—about $100.
We also had a cartoon character. We were going to have more than one cartoon, but it was so good, we couldn’t think of a way to improve upon it.We even had a radio ad that we ran relentlessly on Rockford radio the week before the first debate between Rod Blagojevich and Jim Ryan. Think of the old Chickenman radio series in the late 1950’s and 1960’s.
Maybe I’m too nostalgic about my second little foray into statewide politics.
Certainly, memories are all that resulted, with my receiving just 2% of the vote, about what Rockford’s David Kelley (who now serves on the Rockford School Board) got in 1994. I got more votes for state representative in the 1970’s when cumulative voting was in effect.In any event, Bill Scheurer’s imagination deserves at least a little attention from local and regional media.
He is on the ballot and he will get more than 2% of the vote…even if the media ignore him.
Labels: Bill Scheurer, David Kelley, Donkephant, JimRod, McBeaney, Two-Header Chicken
