Immigrant rights advocates can breathe a sign of relief: Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) announced this afternoon he will not leave Congress to run for Chicago mayor. The longtime supporter of comprehensive immigration reform was considering entering the field to replace Mayor Richard Daley, who announced More…
Rahm Emanuel could face a serious challenge from Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), one of the most vocal supporters of comprehensive immigration reform in Congress, in the race for Chicago mayor, according to a poll commissioned by Gutierrez as he decides whether to run for the office. Emanuel won a horse-race More…
With the election drawing near, President Obama is drawing on the concerns of campaign finance reformers in hopes of riling the Democratic base. Last night at a Chicago fundraiser for Illinois Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias (D), Obama twice name-checked Karl Rove and the strategist’s relationship with the political organizations More…
Now that Rahm Emanuel has officially bid his adieu to the White House, Paul Blumenthal at the Sunlight Foundation figured it would be a good time to trawl through the White House visitor logs to see who visited the famously gruff chief of staff during his tenure and More…
ABC is reporting that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel could announce as early as Friday that he’s leaving the administration to run for mayor of Chicago, but its local Chicago affiliate is casting some doubt on whether he’s legally eligible:
The Chamber of Commerce is ramping up its attacks on Democrats today. As part of its pledge to spend at least $50 million in the current election cycle, it has cut an ad that targets Illinois Democratic senate hopeful Alexi Giannoulias.
The ad, which is airing today before More…
At an event in Austin last week, former Sen. Phil Gramm, who advised Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) presidential campaign on economic issues, praised economist Milton Friedman’s ideas about sweatshops and all-volunteer armies, but tripped over the basic facts of the conservative thinker’s biography.
Officials in the Obama administration said they anticipate that if all goes as planned, the federal government will purchase the Thomson Correctional Center in Northwest Illinois by late winter, and begin preparations to house terror suspects currently held at the Guantanamo Bay prison. The administration then plans to get the More…
After his speech at the Defending the American Dream Summit, I quickly asked Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) for his take on an issue that had been roiling the event: Chicago’s failed bid to host the Olympics in 2016. Video after the jump.
This seems like some curious behavior from a party that ostensibly wants to win some elections in Illinois next year. In a sizable embarrassment for the White House, Chicago was knocked out of contention for the 2016 Olympic games in the first round of voting. The conservative/GOP response: pretty much More…
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