[Peace-discuss] Landslide David Gill breathes a sigh of relief...

[C. G. Estabrook]

Sounds about right.

It was the Yankee, Lefty Gomez, whom I read about in my baseball- 
obsessed youth, who said, "I'd rather be lucky than good."

A motto for LDG? (Should that be LDGaga?)

On May 19, 2012, at 6:11 PM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:

> Here's what one observer said about it. (below).
>
> (Congressman) Gill should be rejoicing.
>
> I really did think they would choose the neocon beauty queen over
> the neocon toady hack.
>
> With the broadly despised Willard Romney heading the ticket, many  
> Republican voters
> will simply stay at home. It looks like the Illinois GOP is under  
> orders from
> headquarters to make sure this seat goes Democrat.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: A huge embarrassment for all Republicans
> Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 15:37:47 -0500
> From: Doug Ibendahl <dibendahl at ilryp.org>
> To: Doug Ibendahl <dibendahl at ilryp.org>
>
>
> RepublicanNewsWatch.com
>
> Party hack behind IL GOP money transfer scheme gets nod for Congress
> By Doug Ibendahl
> May 19, 2012
> http://republicannewswatch.com/wp/?p=12151
>
> Rodney Davis, a State GOP insider at the center of the Illinois  
> Republican Party’s money transfer scandal, was chosen today to  
> replace retiring Congressman Tim Johnson on the ballot this November.
>
> Davis, who as long-time right hand man to Congressman John Shimkus  
> and State GOP Chairman Pat Brady, has played a major role in making  
> the Illinois Republican Party a national laughingstock. Most  
> recently Davis helped orchestrate a quite possibly illegal  
> contribution funneling scheme which has become a growing  
> embarrassment to the Party.
>
> The discredited and unqualified Davis was inexplicably chosen over  
> Erika Harold, a former Miss America, Harvard Law School graduate,  
> and now a highly respected practicing attorney. The good-old-boys  
> decided to reject the potential GOP rising star in favor of one of  
> their own.
>
> Today’s vote was shameful, but not all that surprising given the  
> decrepit condition of the Illinois GOP.
>
> Doug Ibendahl is a Chicago Attorney and a former General Counsel of  
> the Illinois Republican Party.
>
> On 5/20/2012 4:34 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>> ...but the voters of the 13th district will have no candidate who  
>> opposes Obama's war-making in Asia and Africa as Congressman  
>> Johnson did.
>>
>> David Gill apparently supports the administration's mendacious  
>> 'withdrawal' plans. (Not that he's had much to say publicly about  
>> it.)
>>
>> http://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/government-and-politics/elections/gop-picks-rodney-davis-to-face-gill/article_924e6638-a1dd-11e1-baa7-0019bb2963f4.html