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ar Mexican soccer player Alan Pulido has been rescued after being kidnapped in the crime-ridden northern border state of Tamaulipas, Mexican authorities said Monday. The rescue took place after midnight on Monday, according to press accounts quoting officials in Ciudad Victoria, the state capital, where the player had been abducted about 24 hours earlier. Pulido was not believed to have suffered any major injury but was undergoing a medical evaluation. In a brief appearance before the press, he wore a multicolored tank top and had a bandage on his right hand. “I’m well, thank God,” Pulido said in comments to...

In early March, a gal named Rosanna Pulido won the Republican primary for the upcoming special congressional election in Illinois’ District 5, Rahm Emanuel’s former kingdom. She will lose. But not before making the funnies! She was the founder of the Illinois chapter of the Minutemen, because she *hates* the Mexicans. Once in a CNN interview she described John McCain as “just another politician that acts as if he was elected to represent the Mexican government.” Well maybe he was! AND YET, her most delightful comments came under the name “chicagolady” on the Free Republic website, where she wrote hilarious...

<p>Democratic Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley is cruising tonight in the 5th District race to replace Rahm Emanuel in Congress.</p> <p>With 45 percent of precincts counted, Quigley had an 8,500-vote lead over Republican Rosanna Pulido and Green Party candidate Matt Reichel.</p>

...Pulido said she isn't intimidated by Quigley's big money lead. Quigley had raised $512,932 in the election cycle that started after the November election while Pulido collected just less than $21,000, according to Federal Election Commission filings as of March 30. Reichel, a 27-year-old French teacher and translator, said he hadn't yet filed an FEC report because he hadn't raised $5,000. "I feel like it's a David and Goliath scenario but the end of the story is David wins," said Pulido, director of the Illinois Minuteman Project, part of a national volunteer civilian border patrol group that wants to stop...

Voters are heading to the polls Tuesday to pick a replacement for Rahm Emanuel in the 5th Congressional District. Democrat Mike Quigley, now a Cook County commissioner, hopes to succeed Emanuel. If elected, he will represent much of the city's North and Northwest sides, as well as a handful of near western suburbs. Quigley is up against Republican Rosanna Pulido, founder of the Illinois Minuteman Project, and Green Party candidate Matthew Reichel, a peace activist. Polls opened at 6 a.m. and will close at 7 p.m.

Rosanna Pulido debated Democrat and Green Party candidates last night on Chicago Tonight.

FR's own Rosanna Pulido, candidate for Congress in Tuesday's Special Election to fill Rahm Emanuel's vacant congressional seat on WGN in Chicago today

The next ten days are going to involve some intense campaigning on the ground in the Fifth District of Illinois, with the goal of electing FR's own chicagolady, Rosanna Pulido, to Congress on April 7. We still need more volunteers! No matter where you live, if you can make phone calls from home for Rosanna, please contact Maureen Gerrish at pulidophonebank@gmail.com, and she'll get you all set up. If you live in or near the district, please join up with one of our teams that will be canvassing precincts every day for the next ten days. We're starting out tomorrow...

Two weeks to go until the April 7th Special Election!Tonight, Wednesday, March 25, 2009, there will be an electronic Town Hall meeting with Rosanna Pulido via conference line. While supporters from across America will be on the call, first preference will be given to citizens of the Fifth Congressional District of Illinois. The call will take place at 7:00 pm Central time. The call in number is: 218-339-2222 The passcode is: 592188 If more conference calls are scheduled we will notify you via email. Opportunities to meet and talk with Rosanna PulidoOn both remaining Saturdays and Sundays before the April...

As many of you know, FreeRepublic's own CHICAGOLADY, Rosanna Pulido, is on the ballot in the IL 5th Congressional District Special Election on April 7th, only two weeks from tomorrow. This race will decide who fills the House seat vacated by Rahm Emanuel when he moved into the White House with Barack Obama. This district covers a large swath of the North Side of Chicago, and several northwest suburbs. It is a heavily Catholic area that has been dominated by the Democrat machine, but it doesn't have to stay that way. If you talk to folks in the Fifth, you...

With a special election to fill the seat vacated by Emanuel just weeks away, Democrat Michael Quigley, Republican Rosanna Pulido and Green Party candidate Matt Reichel are each planning on taking their own route to victory. For Quigley, a onetime aide to former Alderman Bernard Hansen, 44th Ward, who got 11,551 votes, that means hammering away with the same "reform and reinvent" message that helped him beat out 11 other hopefuls, including especially strong candidates like State Reps. Sara Feigenholtz and John Fritchey, said Quigley spokesman Billy Weinberg. "People voted for Mike's message of open and honest government, and his...

With a special election to fill the seat vacated by 5th District U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel just weeks away, Democrat Michael Quigley, Republican Rosanna Pulido and Green Party candidate Matt Reichel are each planning on taking their own route to victory. For Quigley, a onetime aide to former Alderman Bernard Hansen, 44th Ward, who got 11,551 votes, that means hammering away with the same "reform and reinvent" message that helped him beat out 11 other hopefuls, including especially strong candidates like State Reps. Sara Feigenholtz and John Fritchey, said Quigley spokesman Billy Weinberg. "People voted for Mike's message of open...

Chicago, IL - On a day when congressional candidate Mike Quigley made the fundraising rounds of Washington, DC, the Pulido campaign was notified by the League of Women Voters that he has declined their invitation to debate Rosanna Pulido, his opponent in the April 7 Special Election to fill the vacant 5th District congressional seat. When asked about the day's events, Rosanna Pulido raised questions about Quigley's priorities. "I find it amazing that he's doing a victory lap in Washington before the voters have even expressed their will," she said. "He's meeting with K Street lobbyists and their checkbooks and...

Voters May Go In Early Through April 2 For 5th Congressional District Race CHICAGO (CBS) ― Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley topped a field of a dozen Democrats in the 5th Congressional District primary on March 3. He faces Illinois Minuteman Project founder Rosanna Pulido, who won the Republican nomination, and peace activist Matthew Reichel, who won for the Green Party. Early voting runs through April 2, and the special election is on April 7. The district includes much of the north lakefront and Northwest Side, as well as a handful of western suburbs – among them all or parts...

On Saturday afternoon, in the midst of Chicago’s famous St. Patrick’s Day celebration with its tradition of turning of the Chicago River green, a cadre of concerned Republicans met to plan a way to capture the Congressional seat of Chicago’s 5th District, the one being vacated by Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. The candidate charged with this task is Rosanna Pulido and she only has about three weeks to do it. The special election for Emanuel’s seat is to be held as soon as April 7th. Her supporters and other interested parties (me included) met at the top of...

GOP Not Fully Embracing Their Candidate for Congress Rosanna Pulido is the GOP's candidate in the race to replace Rahm Emanuel in Congress, but her own party hasn't given their full support. I will have to call RUSH LIMBAUGH!

Grab the Listen Live or turn on your radios! She's on the Roe Conn Show

Special ElectionAPRIL 7, 2009 Illinois Fifth Congressional District ROSANNA PULIDO, FR's own CHICAGOLADY, is the Republican nominee!Rosanna Pulido for Congress What you can do nowFor more information or to volunteer: tomhoefling@gmail.com This is a tough Special Election in a heavily Democrat district, but it isn't impossible. Rosanna is a GREAT candidate, and will work hard to earn every vote. Once folks get to know her, they love her! She cannot count on the IL GOP, fellow FReepers, which means that she has to count on us. I would ask that over the next five weeks those who take the defeatist...

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.”

568 of 578 Precincts Reporting - 98% Name Party Votes Vote % Pulido, Rosanna GOP 975 25% Hanson, Tom GOP 842 22% Anderson, David GOP 702 18% Bedell, Gregory GOP 645 17% Kay, Daniel GOP 369 9% Stewart, Jon GOP 365 9% http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2009/by_state/IL_Page_0303.html?SITE=ILCHTELN&SECTION=POLITICS