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Minuteman Wins GOP Primary for House Seat Illinois’ heavily Democratic 5th congressional district
The Washington Independent ^ | 3/4/09 9:34 AM | David Weigel

Posted on 03/04/2009 8:20:30 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Last night voters in Illinois’ heavily Democratic 5th congressional district voted in a primary for candidates to replace former Rep. Rahm Emanuel, now the White House chief of staff.

Mike Quigley won the Democratic primary, while Rosanna Pulido won the GOP primary.

Who’s Rosanna Pulido? She was a founder of the Illinois Minutemen, a wing of the immigration restriction group that patrolled the U.S.-Mexico border in 2006 and 2007. In this CNN interview, she called then-GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain “just another politician that acts as if he was elected to represent the Mexican government.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonindependent.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: aliens; chicago; elections; il2009; illegalimmigration; illinois; immigrantlist; immigration; pulido; quigley; rahm; rahmemanuel
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1 posted on 03/04/2009 8:20:30 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; chicagolady
Who is Rosanna Pulido?

IIRC she is FReeper Chicagolady.

2 posted on 03/04/2009 8:25:45 AM PST by Roccus (The Capitol, the White House, the Court house.....................America's Axis of Evil!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Groovy, but what is the likelihood of ANY Republican winning the general?


3 posted on 03/04/2009 8:26:07 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (True nobility is exempt from fear - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: chicagolady

Congrats!


4 posted on 03/04/2009 8:29:43 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
We can win that seat. We will send in thousands of people to register voters, take people to the polls, and even vote themselves. We will set up a network of activists to intimidate voters who might vote for the opposing party.

Oh, I'm sorry, we don't have an ACORN on our side... I guess the Dems win again...

5 posted on 03/04/2009 8:30:12 AM PST by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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To: Army Air Corps

bttt


6 posted on 03/04/2009 8:30:24 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

The way Rahm and Obama are fiddle-f***** our nation’s wealth and security away, she may have a chance.


7 posted on 03/04/2009 8:31:29 AM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Russ

I understand your sarcasm, but this brings up the salient point....why DON’T we “send in thousands of people to register voters, take people to the polls, and even vote themselves”? Is there some unwritten rule that says that only Democrats can GOTV? Sure, we’re constrained by doing things legally, but all the same....


8 posted on 03/04/2009 8:32:20 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (True nobility is exempt from fear - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: chicagolady

Congrats!

Where do we send donations?


9 posted on 03/04/2009 8:33:31 AM PST by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Congratulations Chicagolady!!!


10 posted on 03/04/2009 8:39:55 AM PST by proud2beconservativeinNJ ("In God We Trust")
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

One tough FReeper lady.

As the WashIndie post says, Obama won the district 73% to 26%. She faces impossible odds.


11 posted on 03/04/2009 8:41:05 AM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; PhilCollins

BTT!


12 posted on 03/04/2009 8:46:01 AM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Groovy, but what is the likelihood of ANY Republican winning the general?

This is Rahm Emanuel's old seat. And before him Blagojevich and Rostenkowski. In the last 107 years it has had a Republican congressman for 4 of them. What do you think?

13 posted on 03/04/2009 8:48:06 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

I agree. Give them a taste of their own medicine. Unfortunately, they would have ourr side tied up in court for years and the election ruled null and void.


14 posted on 03/04/2009 8:56:09 AM PST by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Many of the district’s voters think that their last two congressmen, Rahm Emanuel and Rod Blagojevich, were corrupt and liberal. To show that they support a big change, more voters will choose the only conservative, in the race, Rosanna. Obama said that we should vote for change.


15 posted on 03/04/2009 8:59:49 AM PST by PhilCollins
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To: Non-Sequitur

‘This is Rahm Emanuel’s old seat. And before him Blagojevich and Rostenkowski. In the last 107 years it has had a Republican congressman for 4 of them. What do you think?’

Following that line then Joseph Cao shouldn’t have even tried in the Louisiana 2nd CD. Since the end of the Civil War the LA-2 district has had Republicans for only 9 years.

But yet Cao won anyway.


16 posted on 03/04/2009 9:00:39 AM PST by LongIslandConservative
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To: LongIslandConservative

Illinois is finally starting to wise up! Its about time!


17 posted on 03/04/2009 9:03:29 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: LongIslandConservative

Illinois is finally starting to wise up! Its about time!


18 posted on 03/04/2009 9:03:36 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: chicagolady

Woo-Hoo! Congrats!


19 posted on 03/04/2009 9:04:54 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Te odeo, interfice te cochleare)
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To: Non-Sequitur
This is Rahm Emanuel's old seat. And before him Blagojevich and Rostenkowski. In the last 107 years it has had a Republican congressman for 4 of them. What do you think?

I think we need to contest every single seat. And in cases like this, we need candidates who will say inflammatory (but correct) things to shake things up. She needs to tag her opponent as a member of the party that supports abortion, homosexual marriage, illegal immigration, socialized medicine, and out of control taxing and spending. See how that plays. If she harps on those issues, she'll get a sizable part of the minority vote. To date, the GOP has been too scared to go there.

It's time.
20 posted on 03/04/2009 9:05:16 AM PST by Antoninus (It's a sad time when Pravda's reporting is more reliable than anything in the major US media.)
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