Monday, November 03, 2008
Dan Duffy Pledges Suit Against Personal PAC & Director Terry Cosgrove
Previously, I have written earlier about pro-abortion (and they really are pro-abortion) Personal PAC's attack on Dan Duffy.
Besides the completely false “Woman in Jail” piece you can see in the above link, I have copies of two other mailings (click to enlarge). (I've missed two others.)
First there is the “Back Alley Stairs” Piece. You can see it below:
Another Personal PAC attack piece can be seen below. They would call is the “Kiss or Tell” piece. Since it came just before Halloween and has "scary" writing, that's how I labeled it.
And Sunday night, while I was getting a positive, if misdirected (because I do not live in the 26th state senate district) robo-call from Gentes, Personal PAC was making calls, too. Only they were probably limited to the 26th District.
Personal PAC pieced together recordings of Duffy's voice and interspersed Duffy's comments with those of another person to damage Duffy still more.
Duffy says the only part of the message that was true was the tag line identifying Personal PAC as having made the phone call.
At $45,243.31, Personal PAC is Gentes' largest contributor outside of Senate President hopeful John Cullerton, who gave $50,000. Contributions started last January and the reported ones go up to last Friday. I assume there will be more reported later. From in-kind contributions which have already been reported, I would not be surprised to see another mailing hit today.
Personal PAC is using its intensive voter identification of women who self-identify themselves as pro-choice and not "pro-choice" to tell “pro-choice” voters that Duffy is pro-life and “not pro-choice” voters that he is pro-choice.
It is an elegant and competently carried out campaign strategy that, in different permentations has worked since 1992, although it often has taken more than one election cycle to pick off an incumbent. (Personal PAC had to do it three times to beat me in 2000.)
You can imagine the confusion among the electorate.
And, a confused electorate is a volatile one.
Duffy is so angry that he is pledging to sue Personal PAC and its director, Terry Cosgrove, regardless of how the election turns out.
Besides the completely false “Woman in Jail” piece you can see in the above link, I have copies of two other mailings (click to enlarge). (I've missed two others.)
First there is the “Back Alley Stairs” Piece. You can see it below:
Another Personal PAC attack piece can be seen below. They would call is the “Kiss or Tell” piece. Since it came just before Halloween and has "scary" writing, that's how I labeled it.
And Sunday night, while I was getting a positive, if misdirected (because I do not live in the 26th state senate district) robo-call from Gentes, Personal PAC was making calls, too. Only they were probably limited to the 26th District.Personal PAC pieced together recordings of Duffy's voice and interspersed Duffy's comments with those of another person to damage Duffy still more.
Duffy says the only part of the message that was true was the tag line identifying Personal PAC as having made the phone call.
At $45,243.31, Personal PAC is Gentes' largest contributor outside of Senate President hopeful John Cullerton, who gave $50,000. Contributions started last January and the reported ones go up to last Friday. I assume there will be more reported later. From in-kind contributions which have already been reported, I would not be surprised to see another mailing hit today.
Personal PAC is using its intensive voter identification of women who self-identify themselves as pro-choice and not "pro-choice" to tell “pro-choice” voters that Duffy is pro-life and “not pro-choice” voters that he is pro-choice.
It is an elegant and competently carried out campaign strategy that, in different permentations has worked since 1992, although it often has taken more than one election cycle to pick off an incumbent. (Personal PAC had to do it three times to beat me in 2000.)
You can imagine the confusion among the electorate.
And, a confused electorate is a volatile one.
Duffy is so angry that he is pledging to sue Personal PAC and its director, Terry Cosgrove, regardless of how the election turns out.
Labels: 26th District, Abortion, Bill Gentes, Dan Duffy, Personal PAC, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, Terry Cosgrove
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Abortion Supporting Personal PAC & Planned Parenthood Endorse Bill Gentes for State Senate
No surprise here.Personal PAC, the most radical pro-abortion political action committee in Illinois has decided to try to to take over another suburban Chicago Republican district.
Joining in the endorsement is Planned Parenthood.
The latest target is apparently pro-lifer Bill Peterson's district. Peterson is retiring after serving in the General Assembly since his first election in 1982. Running as a Republican is Dan Duffy.
Gentes' press release follows:
Personal PAC & Planned Parenthood Endorse GentesIn the photo with Bill Gentes on the left is Dan Giallombardo.
Personal PAC and Planned Parenthood Chicago Action both pledged support for Mayor Gentes in the race for Illinois' 26th district. Each group has a long history of backing pro-choice candidates on the state and national level.
In announcing its endorsement of Mayor Gentes, Steve Trombley, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Chicago Action said,"Bill Gentes will fight hard for positive gains in women's health care..."In response to this endorsement Mayor Gentes issued the following statement:"I am grateful for the endorsements of Personal PAC and Planned Parenthood Chicago Action. These groups recognize that I will fight to keep abortion safe and legal for the citizens of Illinois.
Throughout my years in public office I maintained my pro-choice beliefs because I believe the women of Illinois should not have to worry about politicians in Springfield telling them how to run their lives.
Illinois lawmakers cannot allow anti-abortion forces to stand in the way of smart and safe pro-choice legislation. We cannot allow personal ideologies to get in the way of the rights of women in Illinois."
Labels: 26th District, Bill Gentes, Bill Peterson, Dan Duffy, Personal PAC, Planned Parenthood, Pro-Choice
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Dems Soften on Abortion
Well, not that you can notice in the legislative arena.But, the platform is being modified a bit.
And, although I don't follow national politics closely, I heard that the pro-life son of former Pennsylvania Governor Robert Casey, a pro-lifer who was not allowed to address the 1992 national Democratic Party convention, is going to be permitted to speak this year.
Locally, we have McHenry County Democratic Party coroner candidate Dave Bachmann, who has made no secret of his pro-life views, even showing up at the pro-life political action committee's pig roast.
It must have been intimidating to see the McHenry County Republican Party's elephant float and all the GOP signs out front of Resurrection Center.
And former Republican Dundee Township Republican Central Committee Chairman and GOP Kane County Board member is running as a pro-life Democrat for circuit court judge.
So far, there seems to be a semblance of tolerance for both among local abortion supporting Democrats.
Labels: Abortion, Dave Bachmann, John Noverini, McHenry County Coroner, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Message of the Day – A Bumper Sticker
After filling up with gas at the station that was called “State Gas” when I first started driving back in the late 1950’s, I drove home past the old St. Thomas Catholic Church.There were several pro-life bumper stickers on cars and vans parking around the park where the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce has its building.
Here’s one of them:
Pro-Choice? That’s a Lie!
“Babies Don’t Choose To Die!”
“Babies Don’t Choose To Die!”
If you want one of these, click on the image and you can see the price and address.
Labels: Bumper Sticker, Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce, Message of the Day, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, St. Thomas Catholic Church, State Gas Station
Friday, June 29, 2007
Message of the Day – A Public Notice
Required to be posted by Governor Rod Blagojevich, this notice informs women that they can get the “morning after pill” at the Crystal Lake Walgreens.
This move was made, of course, to please the pro-choice folks who backed the governor in the 2002 election.
If I remember correctly, the posters were ordered put up shortly before the 2006 fall election.
Of course, pharmacies do not have to post them as prominently as the Crystal Lake Walgreens does.
Maybe it is trying to attract the overnight market, as well as the morning after market.
You can make the print in the notice large enough to read by clicking on the image.
This move was made, of course, to please the pro-choice folks who backed the governor in the 2002 election. If I remember correctly, the posters were ordered put up shortly before the 2006 fall election.
Of course, pharmacies do not have to post them as prominently as the Crystal Lake Walgreens does.
Maybe it is trying to attract the overnight market, as well as the morning after market.
You can make the print in the notice large enough to read by clicking on the image.
Labels: Crystal Lake, Morning After Pill, Pro-Choice, Rod Blagojevich, Walgreens, Wallgreen
