Party Hack Behind IL GOP Money Transfer Scheme Gets Nod for Congress
Rodney Davis was chosen Saturday to replace retiring Congressman Tim Johnson on the ballot this November.
Rodney Davis was chosen Saturday to replace retiring Congressman Tim Johnson on the ballot this November.
AP | Posted 05.20.2012
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Republican leaders have chosen a November ballot replacement for longtime Republican U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson after he abru...
Doug Ibendahl | Posted 05.09.2012
If the County Chairmen ignore the pressure they are surely getting from the usual suspects and failed establishment players, the Illinois GOP may soon have a great story to tell for a change.
Posted 05.09.2012
A former Miss America's U.S. House bid gained traction this week as the Ivy League-educated former beauty queen was named as one of four finalists for...
Posted 04.24.2012
When veteran Illinois U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson dropped his re-election bid earlier this month, a slew of area politicians and businessmen threw their hat...
Pearl Korn | Posted 04.10.2012
We must become a much more politically engaged and informed population and take responsibility for ensuring that those we elect to represent us in Congress are held accountable, but also support them when they do the right thing.
AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 04.05.2012
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Veteran Illinois U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson intends to drop his bid for a seventh term and retire, a Republican official said Wednesday....
Pearl Korn | Posted 03.11.2012
Our nation deserves a better government, Michael Moore, and you are one of the few people with the ability to actually help make that happen.
Jeff Steele | Posted 02.08.2012
The U.S. House overwhelmingly passed its first significant crowdfunding legislation, in the form of H.R. 2930, the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act....
Pearl Korn | Posted 01.28.2012
Who are these people that we've sent to Washington to represent us? Do they live in this country? Do they see the same news reports, pass the same shuttered businesses, hear the same desperate stories from their friends and family? One has to wonder.
Pearl Korn | Posted 10.15.2011
It has often been said that politics is not a spectator sport. There is no greater truth, especially these days. Yet we progressives do see glimmers of hope surfacing here and there, including in exciting places like Wisconsin.
Posted 09.26.2011
Following the lead of some of the top Republican members of the Illinois General Assembly, who last week filed suit over the state's redrawn House and...
Posted 09.19.2011
Two of the Illinois General Assembly's most powerful Republican legislators filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday that claims the state's newly drawn cong...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 09.07.2011
WASHINGTON -- The 2012 elections are more than 15 months away, but the fight for control of Congress is under way in state capitols around the countr...
AP | By DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 08.10.2011
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Friday that he will nominate Martin J. Gruenberg to become chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 08.10.2011
WASHINGTON -- The nation's largest labor union federation on Friday threatened to challenge the powerful chairman of the Senate Banking Committee in t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress are discussing several mechanisms to cut off funding for U.S. military operations in Libya, arguing that since Presi...
Stephanie Woodard | Posted 05.25.2011
Campaigning in the South Dakota legislature's District 28 is an extreme sport -- the political X Games of 2010. The vast expanse encompasses much of t...
Stephanie Woodard | Posted 05.25.2011
Opponents of holding a full-scale election on the Oglala Sioux Tribe's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation this fall held on as long as possible during a recent confrontation with hopeful voters.
Roll Call | Posted 05.25.2011
Congressional reports on foreign travel are essentially useless for determining where Members went, how much was spent and who traveled with the lawma...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011
"I'm not a telemarketer," the friendly voice says into his cellphone. "I'm your United States congressman." Click....
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota has been released from a hospital after gallbladder surgery earlier in the week. John...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson will remain in a Sioux Falls, S.D., hospital a few more days but is expected to make a full recovery f...
AP | CHET BROKAW | Posted 05.25.2011
PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson was in a Sioux Falls hospital on Monday after being admitted with a fever that might have been caus...
Pearl Korn | Posted 05.25.2011
In my last post (which you can read by clicking on this LINK) I wrote about and supported Dr. David Gill for Congress in the 15th Congressional Distri...
Doug Ibendahl | Posted 05.22.2012