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Rush: Andrzejewski is Illinois's Scott Brown
National Review Online ^ | 2-1-10 | Stephen Spruiell

Posted on 02/01/2010 6:40:36 PM PST by kingattax

Rush Limbaugh has thrown his support behind Adam Andrzejewski (pronounced "an-gee-EFF-skee"), a Republican candidate for governor of Illinois. (Audio here.) Tomorrow's GOP primary is crowded with challengers, and Andrzejewski has trailed former state party chairman Andy McKenna in the polls. But he has been riding a surge lately, starting with an endorsement from former Polish president and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa on Friday, and continuing with Rush's declaration that Andrzejewski might be "the Scott Brown of his contest."

"I have not heard Rush’s remarks yet — I’ve spent the day campaigning in Polish neighborhoods all over Chicago — but people I’ve talked to have said his support was strong and very clear, and I’m gratified by that," says Andrzejewski. "When I built my business, I did not hold the CEO card, I held the salesman card, and I went out in my car on nearly 60,000 sales stops. I listened to a lot of Rush over that ten-year period, and I’m deeply touched that he gave my campaign such profile and prestige today."

Andrzejewski says he hasn't had a chance to check the endorsement's impact on donations, but he says: "My personal cell phone has been bombed with calls, texts, and e-mails."

In the middle of our conversation, Andrzejewski has to pause. When he gets back on the phone, I ask him what happened. "We were pulled over by a Chicago police officer who wanted to shake my hand," he says sheepishly. I ask him if he's kidding. He says no, he's not, that this is the kind of attention he's been getting since the Walesa endorsement. (As we talk, his campaign is caravanning from a Polish diner, Staro Polska, in Chicago, to its headquarters, where Fox News is scheduled to show up with its cameras.)

"Walesa came into Chicago and issued what he said was his first endorsement ever of an American politician," says Andrzejewski. "He was very unequivocal, solid and showed real strength and humor in his remarks. He told a story from the early days of Solidarity, when nobody gave them a chance. And if you added up the tanks, guns and airplanes of the Communists, they didn’t stand a chance. He said the difference was that Solidarity's principles and values were stronger." Andrzejewski says the same logic applies to his campaign to retake Springfield from "the Illinois combine" — a nickname for state government which refers to the bipartisan culture of patronage and favor-trading. "He said I reminded him of a young Lech Walesa. I was touched by those remarks."

I ask him why conservatives seem to be backing him over McKenna: "Andy McKenna came into the race acting like I didn’t exist and running on all of my policies and all of my themes," he says. "He calls himself the only outsider in the race. That's a disingenuous statement at best." (McKenna was the state party chairman for five years; Andrzejewski is a newcomer to politics.) "He's no outsider, no reformer, and he had his own ethics problems as party chairman." (The state party investigated McKenna after he paid for a personal poll using party money.)

Virginia, New Jersey, Massachusetts — could Obama's Illinois be next? "I think the parallel . . . is that Republicans are winning in Democratic strongholds by healthy margins, and I expect the same in November when I’m our nominee."


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2010election; adamandrzejewski; andrzejewski; brown; election2010; il2010; illinois; lechwalesa; limbaugh; scottbrown
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To: Stosh

shibillah, right?


21 posted on 02/01/2010 8:30:14 PM PST by Norseman (Term Limits: 8 years is enough!)
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To: kingattax
"...Andrzejewski..."

I'm sorry, but if that were my last name, I'd have to anglicize it. Especially if I was going into politics.

Shorten it to Andrewski, or something.

22 posted on 02/01/2010 8:32:21 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Just like Mike Kryzysewski...how do you get “shuh-SHEF-ski” out of that??


23 posted on 02/01/2010 8:35:54 PM PST by Longhair_and_Leather (Don't send a boy to do a man's job, send a woman--Sarah 2012!)
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To: exit82

Amen! And, God bless every effort to return this country to the precepts and principles on which our Founding Documents are based.


24 posted on 02/01/2010 8:51:36 PM PST by LucyJo (http://www.housetohouse.com/)
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To: Soul Seeker

One of the problems with FR these days is that a lot of Freepers expect Rush to be the campaign manager and PR man for every conservative candidate.


25 posted on 02/01/2010 8:53:56 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (We're right, we're free, we'll fight and you'll see!)
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To: kingattax
>>>>>Rush's declaration that Andrzejewski might be "the Scott Brown of his contest."

Another Pro-Roe/Pro-abort (RustBelt) liberal, who likes Illinois equivalent to RomneyCare, man caused global warming nonsense and gay marriage rights.

If that's what he's talking about, I say, no thanks, El Rushbo!

26 posted on 02/01/2010 9:01:52 PM 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: fieldmarshaldj

Say DJ, who would you choose if were an Illinoisan?


27 posted on 02/01/2010 9:04:06 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN | NO "INDIVIDUAL MANDATE"!!!!!!!)
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To: fightinJAG

Well unfortunately now Canada (!!!) ranks higher than the US as far as economic freedom. Top on the list are Singapore and Hong Kong.


28 posted on 02/01/2010 9:26:52 PM PST by ksm1
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To: Norseman

Pretty darn close - not bad for a Norseman!

(as best as I can present it phonetically, it’d be “chih-bih-wah”)


29 posted on 02/02/2010 4:44:01 AM PST by Stosh
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To: ksm1

And *economic freedom* is at the core of political freedom as well as a key component of national security and (as John Stossel pointed out in comparing the effects of the same size earthquake on San Francisco in the ‘80’s and on Haiti this year) of our physical security (the quality of our buildings, roads, etc.).

Obambi & Gang don’t think of economics in terms of freedom, period. Much less do they have any understanding of how integral economic freedom is to freedom in general and to our national quality of life and resiliency.

Or do they?


30 posted on 02/02/2010 5:44:44 AM PST by fightinJAG (Largest wing in future Obama Presidential Library will be devoted to Bush & Cheney)
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To: Stosh
*** I had a kid in my class in grade school named “Przybyla” - take a shot a that one! ***

Not a problem: Przybyla = Priz-bill-ah
(short I before z, not long I as in 'eye')

31 posted on 02/02/2010 5:59:55 AM PST by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits [A. Einstein])
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To: Falcon28

Anywhere I can go to get a good listing of the right candidates in the IL Republican primary? I live in the same district as Obama.


32 posted on 02/02/2010 6:38:32 AM PST by aruanan
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I’m glad that Rush and I agree about Adam. I walked five precincts, for him.


33 posted on 02/02/2010 6:51:20 AM PST by PhilCollins
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To: Impy; BillyBoy

Out of what is currently running ? I’ve issued no particular endorsement, at least for Governor (and I’m not happy about the Senate choices, either). There’s just no “magic” candidate that grabs me, and I hate having to pick between a plethora of second-tiers, especially when they’re outgunned by the resources of first-tier Combiner cretins, it’s like asking which guy you want to serve as cannon fodder.

Andrzejewski may not be a bad guy, but I think he may simply be way too green to make the jump to Governor. I’m just glad I don’t have to cast a vote there.


34 posted on 02/02/2010 8:53:29 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Nextrush

THIS is the first time I am hearing/reading of it!

NOTHING else in the media. NOT EVEN FNC!

(but FNC has rush dancing to the Lady Gaga)


35 posted on 02/02/2010 9:00:24 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Stosh
Polish names are never pronounced the way they’re spelled.

I had a kid in my class in grade school named “Przybyla” - take a shot a that one! "She-be-wah" = Eagle. Yestem nie jest polakiem, ale kocham jensyki i muzyki (I am not a Polish man, but I love the language and music).

36 posted on 02/02/2010 1:00:20 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: Longhair_and_Leather

Why do Polacks spell their names ending is “S-K-I”?

Because they can’t spell tobaggan!

(a joke from long ago. And for those who would be offended, I have a long Polish name ending in “ski”)


37 posted on 02/02/2010 1:14:26 PM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Well done - you win the kielbasa!


38 posted on 02/02/2010 5:57:12 PM PST by Stosh
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To: Stosh

tak! pan. Smacznego!!!


39 posted on 02/03/2010 5:01:05 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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