Posted on 03/19/2006 1:10:39 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(AP) MAYWOOD, Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich is talking to friendly church audiences today about one of his campaign positions - a statewide ban on assault weapons.
Tuesday is Election Day.
Blagojevich is being challenged in the Democratic primary by Edwin Eisendrath, but the governor said the visits are not campaign stops.
Blagojevich spoke to reporters after delivering his standard campaign speech at Proviso Baptist Church in Maywood.
In the speech, the governor discussed being the son of working parents and said he wants to improve education and health care in Illinois.
He also urged worshippers to call their lawmakers to voice support for an assault weapons ban.
Blagojevich said he's just focusing on doing his job, and part of that is stumping for a ban.
He's set to speak to two Chicago churches this afternoon.
This wasn't "partisan" campaigning anyway. "Blag the Impaler" is not running for office ~ he just wants the people of Illinois to further disarm themselves so his friends in the Mob and assorted street gangs can expend their operations outside of Chicago.
I'm surprised that church didn't erupt in flames.
Probably Unitarian Universalists -- "church lite"
while i oppose the assualt weapons ban, it would likely not be declared unconstitutional by the SCOTUS
Blagojevich must be taking advice from the libs in MD state government. They are constantly trying to push "assault weapons" ban bills through committee for a floor vote. Acording to a lot of elected MD libs, "assault weapons" are any firearm that can be fired in semi-automatic mode, including handguns. But hey, it's okay. The libs are just worried about my "safety". ;)
Whhen you consider what a disaster the Illinois Republican Party is, it makes a little more sense. Various crooks, losers and wife-pimps named Ryan, for one thing....
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Even if it would have, it is STILL a violation of the RKBA spoken of in the 2nd amendment.
Never said I agree with it, now did I?
He knows this. He was Sara Brady's floor leader when he was Chicago's Kongressjerk. The man is 100% committed to producing an American totalitarian state where only the police and military are armed. He also knows that this leads to things like Nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia, and Pol Pot's Cambodia, but he sees these as good, because he pictures himself in charge with the disarmed peasants doing the bidding of his armed storm troopers. Yet the morons in Chicago vote for him. I guess to the majority of voters in IL, freedom is not very important.
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