Open Invitation to the One Year Anniversary of the Tea Party Movement in Chicago

It all started in Chicago. Rick Santelli’s call to arms was broadcast from Chicago. The first Tea Party was last year on a cold day in February.  I heard you.  We need a new generation of leaders that will serve the people, not the political class.  My campaign for Governor started because I heard you and I still hear you.

The Tea Party movement is now a year old and what better place to celebrate the movement than in Chicago. We will be at the Dierksen Federal Building plaza at 2:30pm having a rally in honor of the movement and to celebrate all that we’ve accomplished.

I’m also bringing in someone who knows a little something about freedom and just a few decades ago he was fighting in Eastern Europe and Ronald Reagan stood at his side. Lech Walesa will be addressing the gathering to tell us about his struggles.

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Tags: adam andrzejewski, Barack Obama, Chicago Way, CNBC, illinois politics
Posted Jan 28th 2010 at 8:08 pm in Politics, State Politics | 6683078 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/aandrzejewsk/2010/01/28/open-invitation-to-the-one-year-anniversary-of-the-tea-party-movement-in-chicago/Open+Invitation+to+the+One+Year+Anniversary+of+the+Tea+Party+Movement+in+Chicago2010-01-29+04%3A08%3A11Adam+Andrzejewski

Taking On the Chicago Machine: An Interview With Candidate Tom Tresser

I first met up with Tom Tresser when I went to my first Olympics townhall event in the summer. Tresser lead the citizen activist group, No Games Chicago. They opposed the bid, as most have probably figured out. Tresser represented No Games, and their position, in the forum. Here’s how I described Tresser’s best argument that night:

Tresser, on at least five occasions, referred to Daley by the moniker corrupt. No one supporting the bid ever challenged this characterization. Instead, their defense was that the bid was a private non profit effort that is separate from the mayor’s office

The corruption in Chicago’s City Hall was the number one reason to oppose the Olympics coming to this city. While the Olympics aren’t going to be here, the corruption is a major reason, the corruption hasn’t gone away with it. In fact, it’s a part of daily political life in the city of Chicago, the County of Cook, and the state of Illinois in its entirety. (more…)

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Tags: Andy Shaw, Chicago City Council, Chicago Olympics, Chicago Privatization, Chicago Way
Posted Dec 30th 2009 at 5:01 pm in Politics, State Politics | 4995051 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/mvolpe/2009/12/30/taking-on-the-chicago-machine-an-interview-with-candidate-tom-tresser/Taking+On+the+Chicago+Machine%3A+An+Interview+With+Candidate+Tom+Tresser2009-12-31+01%3A01%3A29Michael+Volpe

Californians Prepare Initiative to Make Politics Voluntary, Even for Union Members

Government employee union officials have enjoyed a big advantage over their political competitors: the power to compel members to contribute funds to their causes.

Such political power has served as a massive force in favor of the unsustainable spending that has forced cities like Vallejo, California into bankruptcy with unrealistic salaries and pension benefits for their unionized employees.

Normally only a tiny fraction of Americans choose to donate to candidates or political causes. Yet many government employee unions enjoy the power to compel virtually all of their members into supporting the unions’ advocacy, regardless of how the individual worker feels about that agenda.

That’s one heck of an advantage on the political battlefield, but it comes at the price of forcing, for example, Republican union members to fund Democrat campaigns. Or, conversely, Democrats in Pennsylvania funding then-Republican Arlen Specter’s re-election.  It’s wrong, and abuse of the practice has led states like Utah and Idaho to ban the practice.

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Posted Dec 30th 2009 at 10:23 am in Big Labor, Politics, State Politics, Uncategorized | 5139864 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/rnehring/2009/12/30/californians-prepare-initiative-to-make-politics-voluntary-even-for-union-members/Californians+Prepare+Initiative+to+Make+Politics+Voluntary%2C+Even+for+Union+Members2009-12-30+18%3A23%3A30Ron+Nehring

Study Shows Partisan Influence On Stimulus Spending

Democrats are feeling stimulated these days.  In a recent study, Jerry Brito and Veronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center tracked stimulus spending in all 435 congressional districts plus the District of Columbia.  They found that the amount of stimulus money received by a district was influenced by its partisan representation, rather than economic need. Districts with a Democratic congressman received almost twice as many dollars as those with Republican representation, whereas there was no relationship between a district’s unemployment level and the amount of stimulus money it received.

Barack Obama has broken many campaign promises since taking office, but when it comes to the comparisons to Franklin Delano Roosevelt saddled on him by his adorning followers in the media, he has worked hard to live up to the hype.  We already knew that both dishonestly campaigned against the excessive spending of their predecessors before breaking the bank on their own watch.  Now we also know that President Obama, like FDR, has abused a crisis atmosphere to direct economic relief funds for partisan purposes.

Patronage was instrumental in protecting the incumbent Democratic Party in the first mid-term election under FDR, despite an unemployment rate that surpassed 20 percent.  His administration targeted swing districts for infusions of federal dollars – spending money not to increase employment, but to maximize electoral gains.  He succeeded.  Democrats expanded their majorities by nine seats in both chambers.

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Posted Dec 21st 2009 at 10:23 am in Congress, Economics, Politics | 4988262 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bgarst/2009/12/21/study-shows-partisan-influence-on-stimulus-spending/Study+Shows+Partisan+Influence+On+Stimulus+Spending2009-12-21+18%3A23%3A58Brian+Garst

Exclusive: NUTBUSTERZ Launched To Expose Working Families Party/ACORN Scam

A new citizen action group is committed to exposing the danger that ACORN and the Working Family Party poses to our democracy based on their record of subverting elections through voter fraud, falsifying petitions and engaging in absentee ballot fraud for favored candidacies, looting government housing programs, blackmailing corporations and cheating the public campaign finance system.

Nutbusterz will serve serve as a clearinghouse for media coverage of the illegal activities of ACORN. Media reports on ACORN and the New York Working Families Party (WFP) will be updated daily. Candidates and causes that ally themselves with ACORN will be exposed and held to account.

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Tags: ACORN, ACORN fraud, Annemarie Salvatore, political corruption, Working Families Party
Posted Oct 29th 2009 at 7:15 am in ACORN, Big Labor, Exclusives, Politics, State Politics | 2234641 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2009/10/29/exclusive-nutbusterz-launched-to-expose-working-families-partyacorn-scam/Exclusive%3A+NUTBUSTERZ+Launched+To+Expose+Working+Families+Party%2FACORN+Scam2009-10-29+14%3A15%3A48Capitol++Confidential