Articles filed under Democratic Party
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Rangel steps down from House Ways and Means Committee postMar 02, 2010 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- New York Rep. Charles Rangel temporarily stepped aside as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Wednesday as he struggled with mounting ethics woe...
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Unwelcome spotlight falls on Obama chief of staff Rahm EmanuelMar 02, 2010 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- No-drama Obama was bound to get fireworks when he chose the expletive-spewing, hotheaded, never-at-rest Rahm Emanuel to be his White House chief of staff. ...
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Democrats taking applications for Ill. lt. gov.Mar 02, 2010 10:00 pm - Illinois' Democratic voters picked a pawnbroker as their candidate for lieutenant governor, and that didn't exactly end well. So perhaps they won't mind if the next cand...
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Duckworth says no to Quinn, won't run for lt. governorFeb 23, 2010 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Hoffman Estates Democrat Tammy Duckworth has declined the governor's invitation to run as his lieutenant governor nominee in the upcoming elections. Gov. ...
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Invitations to job creation meeting in Aurora trigger disputeFeb 18, 2010 10:00 pm - State Rep. Lou Lang's Feb. 26 visit to Aurora to encourage job growth wasn't supposed to be a city-sponsored event in the first place. But now a ruling by the city's att...
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Cohen should have been allowed to runFeb 15, 2010 10:00 pm - I say let Scott Lee Cohen run for the office of lieutenant governor in Illinois. Are we not the nation of second, third and fourth chances? Leave his past in the past. C...
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All is not well with either party in IllinoisFeb 13, 2010 10:00 pm - Question: Why is Illinois politics like Yellowstone's "Old Faithful"? Answer: Because the hot air just keeps on gushing. Example 1, the Democrats. Most of the century's ...
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Madigan says he warned Cohen things would get worseFeb 09, 2010 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - House Speaker Michael Madigan said Tuesday that in his recent conversations with Scott Lee Cohen, he repeatedly suggested the Chicago pawnbroker abandon hi...
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Making Scott Lee Cohen folk hero says more about usFeb 08, 2010 10:00 pm - "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Mencken. ••• No sooner does the outrage of bumbling Ill...
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Search is on for Democratic lt. governor candidateFeb 08, 2010 10:00 pm - Newly freed from the radioactive candidacy of Scott Lee Cohen, Illinois Democrats now turn to the task of finding a new running mate for Gov. Pat Quinn. And some in the...