Posted on 03/19/2012 10:16:17 AM PDT by Publius804
What's a Schakowsky Republican you ask? Good question.... Probably not much different than many "Chicago Republicans." If you are any bit familiar with the Chicago machine, it is no secret that the Chicago GOP that does exist, along with the state Republican Party itself, is heavily influenced by democrats and democrat operatives. But it looks like one of their operatives got a little sloppy in this year's 2nd Ward Republican Committeeman race.
A citizen journalist sends us the following:
Mirlinda Vula Feierstein, Candidate for 2nd Ward Republican Committeeman sure has an interesting campaign strategy. In late January, concerned citizens of the 2nd Ward found this picture of Mirlinda posing with Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky on her campaign facebook page.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Democrats are democrats. Moderate republicans are democrats. Conservative republicans are republicans.
“Conservative republicans are republicans.”
Conservative republicans are moderates. Tea Partiers are republicans.
I’m surprised there is any Republican Party in the city for them to infiltrate.
Tomorrow when I go to vote in the primary I will help choose the candidates for the following offices:
President of the United States
U.S. Representative (2 people running, neither have a snowball’s chance in hell of beating Jackson, Jr. or Halvorsen.)
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
10th Ward Republican Committeeman
Oh, and one person, “No Candidate” is running in the GOP primary for multiple offices: State Senate, State Rep, States Attorney, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Recorder of Deeds, Board of Review, Illinois Supreme Court, 6 seats on the Appellate Court, and 11 seats on the Circuit Court.
bttt
Don Wade. Paging Mr. Don Wade. Please pick up the interview courtesy phone for Ms. Mirlinda Vula Feierstein.
The interview courtesy phone, please, Mr. Don Wade.
That would also explain Mark Kirk.
Is Jan Schakowsky’s husband out of jail yet?
From Mirlinda FB ....
- Responses to Democrats Infiltrating Chicago GOP with Schakowsky Republicans Mirlinda Vula Feierstein on March 18, 2012 at 9:39 pm The picture of me standing next to Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky was taken at a Philanthropist Funded event for International Students from Kosovo . . . a NON-POLITICAL EVENT!
Steve Boulton on March 19, 2012 at 12:33 am ... I’m the Executive Director of the Chicago Republican Party. This is being spread as a smear by Feierstein’s opponent, not “concerned citizens.” The picture was taken at an event for Albanian refugees from Kossovo at the salon run by Feierstein’s mother, who assisted in the war zone to get families out. Schakowsky showed up and as hostess Feierstein was asked to have her picture taken. Feierstein’s Facebook page also had pictures with her Mark Kirk and other Republicans. Mirlinda Vula Feierstein is a staunch Republican. It is telling that all her opponent has to run on is a photo.
It is these types of “Republicans” they are talking to!
Rep.Schawkosky’s hubby, Robert Creamer went to prison for failing to pay his taxes.
I’m shocked.
Besides POTUS, where the candidate I support has no delegates, the only contested race I got is for Ward Committeeman. My longtime Committeeman is retiring and I 2 guys are running both whom I know nothing about.
One, Charlie Serrano, might have worked for George Ryan. Or it could just be a guy with the same name.
The only thing I know about the other is that he is over 65 and gave money to Walter Mondale in 1983.
I believe my outgoing Committeeman and many others to be puppets.
Just cause this Mirlinda girl posed for a pic with a rat congresswoman doesn’t necessary mean she’s one as well. She’s also has a pic with our “GOP” Senator Mark Kirk. She says the pic with Jan S was taken at a charity event. Her opponent’s name is Marty Phelan, a realtor.
One of the few things online about the ward committeeman races I’ve found is some blogger I’ve never heard of before named Stephen F. Boulton’s personal recommendations. He backs this girl and Serrano in my Ward.
Record low turnout is expected in the city. The rats don’t have anything to excite them either.
I’ve been voting since 2002, no one has ever run for state legislator in my district, not a one.
Can you say “Combine”?
I’m not surprised that Illinois has Schakowsky Republicans. Sen. Mark Kirk and Rep. Judy Biggert are almost as liberal as Schakowsky.
I hope that you’ll run for the state senate or state house, this year. If you want to run, please contact your ward committeeman, on Thursday.
1) A GOP primary for Congress against Bobby Rush (Mayor Don Peloquin of Blue Island vs. Fred Collins who was the GOP nominee for Sheriff in '08 vs. "Republican" Jimmie Lee Tillman, son of Dorothy),
2)A GOP primary for State Senator (Dr. Barbara Bellar vs. Dr. Ricardo Fernandez, difficult choice since both had a colorful resume for the job and virtually identical conservative views), and
3) A GOP primary for Cook County Board of Review (Sean Morrison vs. Dan Patlak...both of whom have turned me off with their constant mudslinging and pushy supporters). There are 3 Board of Review seats, this one represents about 5% of the city and 95% of the suburbs, so it's called the "suburban seat" for Crook County. Wish our judges worked that way because I'm damned tired of seeing 20+ judicial races in Crook County with "No Candidate" as the GOP nominee.
The RATs also have some contested primaries... Dorothy Brown has some hispanic alderman trying to unseat her as Cook County Clerk, and that will be a biggie since winning the RAT primary in Crook is tauntamount to being elected. Bobby Rush has 4 or 5 opponents, they all seem to be black marxists who are just as bad on the issues, even the suburban guy. I think there will be low turnout here since Obama is unopposed on the ballot in Illinois.
But the 2nd Congressional district, which is east of me, is expected to have high turnout since Jesse Jackson Jr. and fmr. Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson are beating each other up in the Congressional primary (I've seen tons of campaign signs for each... JJJ's signs read "OBAMA/JACKSON"). As I said before, I predict Jackson gets 90+% of the votes in majority black areas and wins easily. I doubt Debbie is going to get 90%+ in the white suburbs like Homewood and Crete, or in Will Co. (even if she did do very well there, there are far more Republicans in that part of the district whereas the Crook County part contains the bulk of RAT voters)
Hope you remembered to write-in Hector Concepcion for Congress in the 4th district. The good news is the spanish word for "conception" is "concepción" so in this majority hispanic district, most of the voters who pull a Republican ballot won't have any trouble spelling it. :-p
And I STILL haven't seen a Romney sign in Crook County as of election day (I figured they'd at least sprout up overnight like how Pat Quinn went from having a handful of signs scattered in odd places the day before, to thousands of them at every polling place on election day). With the thousands of dollars that Romney has pumped into robocalls to endlessly pester Illinois voters, you'd think they'd make use of the signs they already have.
Pictures don't tell the whole story. I've been at Second Amendment events that were bipartisan. I may have a picture somewhere with former Lt Governor John Cherry or Congressman John Dingell. That doesn't mean I voted for the Granholm/Cherry ticket or would have voted for Dingell if I lived in city limits. We just agreed on one issue.
Slow as hell up here in my neck of the woods. My precinct has over 900 registered voter split roughly 50/50 R&D. I just voted at 11:30 and was boter # 68 !!! Sheesh.
There were no signs at all from presidential candidates, which kind of surprised me. I had gotten an email yesterday from some pro-Isreal group literally begging for voluteers to put up Santorum at pollings places. I emailed them back a list of precincts I would be covering for Patlak and offered to help. They called me and said those precincts had already been covered, but yet there were no signs out this am.
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