Special Election for IL-5

[Rowan]

Come on Rosanna stay over 20%, that will make it a mandate.

[cinyc]

Precincts Reported: 463 of 578 (80.1%)
X Mike Quigley (D)   24,369 (69.4%)
Rosanna Pulido (R)   8,435   (24.0%)
Matt Reichel (G)   2,332   (6.6%)

Come on Rosanna stay over 20%, that will make it a mandate.

Mandate for what?  Not totally blowing a special election with especially low turnout?

[Lunar]

i'm more interested in CA-32 now.  Glancing at Chu's website, it's weird she includes the headline "California Race May Expose Ethnic Rifts"

http://www.judychu.net/PDF/rollcall022409.pdf

[Rowan]

Precincts Reported: 463 of 578 (80.1%)
X Mike Quigley (D)   24,369 (69.4%)
Rosanna Pulido (R)   8,435   (24.0%)
Matt Reichel (G)   2,332   (6.6%)

Come on Rosanna stay over 20%, that will make it a mandate.

Mandate for what?  Not totally blowing a special election with especially low turnout?

Clearly this is a referendum against Obama.

[cinyc]

Precincts Reported: 463 of 578 (80.1%)
X Mike Quigley (D)   24,369 (69.4%)
Rosanna Pulido (R)   8,435   (24.0%)
Matt Reichel (G)   2,332   (6.6%)

Come on Rosanna stay over 20%, that will make it a mandate.

Mandate for what?  Not totally blowing a special election with especially low turnout?

Clearly this is a referendum against Obama.

Clearly this is a special election with extremely low turnout in a heavily Democrat-leaning district that has little meaning outside IL-5.

Anyway, 84.1% in:
Precincts Reported: 486 of 578
X Mike Quigley (D)   25,563 (69.3%)
Rosanna Pulido (R)   8,893   (24.1%)
Matt Reichel (G)   2,435   (6.6%)

[cinyc]

With almost 94% in:
Precincts Reported: 543 of 578 (93.9%)
X Mike Quigley (D)   28,343 (69.7%)
Rosanna Pulido (R)   9,653   (23.7%)
Matt Reichel (G)   2,691   (6.6%)

[CARLHAYDEN]

With 572 of 578 precincts reporting:

Quigley     30,109
Pulico        10,509
Reichel        2,868

The six precincts still outstanding are all Chicago precincts and all from wards 1 (precinct 7), 31 (precincts 15 and 28), 40 (precinct 23) and 43 (precincts 29 and 53)

[Holmes]

Clearly this is a referendum against Obama.

Clearly this is a referendum against Mike Quigley and Rosanna Pulido.

[muon2]

Clearly this is a referendum against Obama.

Clearly this is a referendum against Mike Quigley and Rosanna Pulido.

The primary and the general have been referenda against the recent tax and fee hikes by the Cook County board. Quigley had been the obvious outspoken critic in the primary, and Democrats as whole wore some generic blame (taxes along with the newest Blago indictment) in the general.

[minionofmidas]

What kind of Green is Matt Reichel?

[Bacon King]

What kind of Green is Matt Reichel?

a youngin' that ran in the Democratic primary until he couldn't get enough signatures.

[Badger]

I knew I recognized Pulido's name from somewhere previously. Sure enough:

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1532

A freeper and enough of an anti-immigrant extremist to be profiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Nice.

[cinyc]

I knew I recognized Pulido's name from somewhere previously. Sure enough:

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1532

A freeper and enough of an anti-immigrant extremist to be profiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Nice.

She's on the hit list of the Southern Policy Law Center.   So what?  Being against illegal immigration is not against the law - yet.  Though if extremist left-wing organizations like the SPLC ever got their way, it would be.

[Badger]

I knew I recognized Pulido's name from somewhere previously. Sure enough:

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1532

A freeper and enough of an anti-immigrant extremist to be profiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Nice.

She's on the hit list of the Southern Policy Law Center.   So what?  Being against illegal immigration is not against the law - yet.  Though if extremist left-wing organizations like the SPLC ever got their way, it would be.

Pulido's organization, F.A.I.R., hasn't earned its listing as a hate group "because they're opposed to illegal immigration". See the following detailed report from SPLC:

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=846

Here's a good--almost charitable--summary:

"Founded in 1979, FAIR has long been marked by anti-Latino and anti-Catholic attitudes. It has mixed this bigotry with a fondness for eugenics, the idea of breeding better humans discredited by its Nazi associations. It has accepted $1.2 million from an infamous, racist eugenics foundation. It has employed officials in key positions who are also members of white supremacist groups. Recently, it has promoted racist conspiracy theories about Mexico's secret designs on the American Southwest and an alternative theory alleging secret plans to merge the United States, Mexico and Canada. Just last February, a senior FAIR official sought "advice" from the leaders of a racist Belgian political party."

Even a cursory review of the facts shows FAIR isn't merely opposed to "illegal" immigration, but ANY immigrants (other than white Europeans, of course).

The KKK is a hate group with a detailed unabashed white supremacist philosophy which it has channeled for decades into organized acts of violence and terrorism; FAIR, by contrast, is organized general nativist xenophobia which it channels into racist (but apparently non-violent) invective. With that obvious distinction noted, however, saying FAIR is listed as a hate group simply because it opposes illegal immigration is like saying the Klan is so listed merely because they oppose affirmative action.

Just curious: If the SPLC truly was "an extremist left-wing organization", would it still investigate and list as hate groups various Black Separatist organizations including Nation of Islam? (It does)

Anyhoo, my point to this before jacking the thread (sorry--bad newbie! bad!) was concurring that Pulido's got serious credentials as a wingnut. Not that it mattered as, as has been pointed out, the second coming of Jesus--or even Harry Carey--couldn't win in this district running as a Republican.