At least they are spending their own money unlike the democrats who buy our votes with our own money they take from us in taxes, fees and fines.

I welcome the new money in the community. As Harold said, take the money and vote the way you were going to vote anyway.

Us would be those of us who pay taxes and Red Light and Speed Scamera tickets in our communities.

Thank you. That sounds like a compliment coming from you.

Actually my favorite pejorative for them is "Alderlackie". You can use it if you like.

Oh Broseph that really hert. ..lol.

I know bullies who hide hate people who aren't afraid of them but don't you think that is a bit harsh.

B.S.

This is all you do one each and every post. You're about as predictable as a BM. Until you come with some worthy conversation, no one gives a BM what you say or think. You're not intelligent and you add absolutely nothing worthy to a conversation. Go away troll.

This is FGFM. I post under other
names, but many of you have come to know me as FGFM. For lack of a better term, I’m an Internet troll
and I have a serious problem. As some of
you may have guessed, I have very serious psychological issues. Split personalities, obsessive compulsive
disorder, schizophrenia, perhaps some mild autism, you name it. Sometimes I go “off the meds” and post
incoherently. “Racism!” “You have a
theory!” “Capple-whatever”, and various other posts are the results. Anyway, I simply wanted to say that I’m sorry
and thank you for your patience as I sort through these issues.

For those who think the African-American race is a monolithic race, you're very misinformed. The South and West sides are full of conservative people. Call us Republicans or whatever you choose, but the bottom line is that we realize Democrats have done nothing to improve the dire situations in our community, from a political stand point. I haven't seen Rahm Emanuel or Pat Quinn take a strong stand for issues that concern our community. I assume that's for fear of alienating the good old boys who at the end of the day, are the ones who dish out that almighty dollar when they go crawling back with their hands held open .

I welcome Republican candidates to campaign in my community as long as they stay out of the churches. I vote independently. I'm no sucker to the "do nothing" Democratic party who takes the black vote for granted, And never delivers those empty promises.

Signed,

A free turkey on Thanksgiving Eve.

All: This is your
friend FGFM here. I post under other
names, but many of you have come to know me as FGFM. For lack of a better term, I’m an Internet troll
and I have a serious problem. As some of
you may have guessed, I have very serious psychological issues. Split personalities, obsessive compulsive
disorder, schizophrenia, perhaps some mild autism, you name it. Sometimes I go “off the meds” and post
incoherently. “Racism!” “You have a
theory!” “Capple-whatever”, and various other posts are the results. Anyway, I simply wanted to say that I’m sorry
and thank you for your patience as I sort through these issues. Consider it a plea for help.

Glad Republicans are finally doing SOMETHING in Chicago.

Too bad the story writer didn't mention the ultra-rich Democrats that have been buying elections for years- Pritzker, George "the felon" Soros, Warren Buffett, Peter Lewis (Progressive Insurance), Tom Steyer, Herb Sandler, and others.

It appears the story writer bought the lies the Democrats like to spew about rich Republicans, but the GOP today is largely a party funded by middle-class voters. The average contribution to the GOP hovers around $50. With soft-money contributions banned,

The super rich Democrats can now hope to sway elections with large checks to 527 advocacy groups such as MoveOn.org, Americans Coming Together, and the Media Fund, and by bundling contributions to candidates. Over the last four elections, the Democrats have dominated on both accounts. Consider these numbers, from the nonpartisan, non-profit Center for Responsive Politics (CRP):

The top 25 contributors to 527 advocacy groups are funding liberal/Democratic causes, including liberal billionaires George Soros, and Peter Lewis.

Democrats made up 15 of the 25 individuals who gave more than $2 million to 527 groups. Of the Senate and House candidates who received “bundled” contributions that year, 9 out of the top 10 in the Senate and 8 out of 10 in the House were Democrats.

Those who gave a million dollars or more gave $36 million to the Democrats and only $3 million to Republicans, a 12:1 ratio. Those who gave $10,000 or more gave $140 million to the Democrats and just $111 million to Republicans. Of the top 10 individual contributors to candidates that year, only one gave to Republicans.

In 2000, Bush’s “Pioneers” received considerable press for their efforts to raise $100,000 each for the campaign. But the really big donors that year were Democrats. According to the lefty Mother Jones magazine, 18 of the top 25 individual donors to political campaigns were Democrats. In recent years, the Left has been obsessed with the role that the oil and natural-gas industry plays in funding the Republican candidates. Republicans are “in oil companies’ pockets,” says the DNC in one press release. In 2004, according to the CRP, the oil and gas industry pumped $25 million into campaigns, 80 percent of it to the GOP.

But that pales in comparison to industries and interests that fund the Democratic party. That same year lawyers gave $182 million (75 percent to Democrats) and Hollywood donated $32 million (70 percent to Democrats). So, quite believing the red herring stories about the Koch brothers - it is used to distract from what the billionaire Democrat donors are doing.

You obviously have no idea what this story was about and wasted a lot of ink reprinting a bunch of right wing talking points that have very little to do with local politics.

In my judgement, critical Democratic supporters should spend less time criticizing Republicans now investing in the Black community and start actively COMPETING!! NOBODY is stopping Democrats from opening full time offices inside the Black community and spending dollars with Black business and service providers.

I'm going to rant on this topic a bit. All facts. No BS. Let me preface this by saying I'm glad they are "trying something new". But to me, that isn't the point. Not at all. Doing what's right is the point.

There's a problem with this too little too late thing. Obama is replacing blacks with Aztecs. In 3 years it'll be too late for all of you. You are being replaced with a better class of Demonrat slave.

Sidenote: Tell me something black people. Why haven't you looked at a History book since MLK died?

At what point did you think Democrats wrote the Civil Rights Acts. At what point did you think Obama was the first black President. At what point did you think that MLK & Abe Lincoln were Democrats? At what point did you go from being self-reliant freed men to willful slaves on the Demonrat Plantation?

I know the exact point. LBJ knew the point too. JFK also knew. Right before they vetoed the Republican Civil Rights Act, and right after they took credit for writing & passing it. The "Great Society" of Slaves. You jumped in head first. You took what the enemy offered you.

105 years. That's the time between the Emancipation Proclamation and Martin Luther King, Jr's death. Also killed by a Democrat, btw. That's the time it took for you to willfully give up your freedom. 3 generations.

Something else I'd like to mention. Not all people are as disconnected from their History as Blacks. I'm one of those people.

On that topic, do you know what it's like to have 600,000 of your family members wiped from existence trying to free you, and then to have you literally spit in the faces of their children?

Do you have ANY F'ing idea what that's like? To be constantly hated by the people your family died freeing? I think you do know what that's like. You just didn't realize it until now. And no, you ignorant mass of abject stupidity. The Republicans and Democrats didn't switch sides.

And NOW, you complete and absolute morons, VOTE FOR THE MUSLIMS THAT SOLD YOU INTO SLAVERY IN THE FIRST PLACE!! AND THEN ASK FOR PROTECTION FROM THE NATION OF ISLAM?

The same people that sold you AND CONTINUE TO SELL YOU TODAY on the horn of Africa(which is where Obama's Muslim family lives).

So in short. Shame on you. Shame on all of you. If your ancestor's rose from the dead today, they would beat you to death tomorrow. Your recent change of heart may have come much too late. Your "significance" is being replaced by your muslim Masters new slaves. I hope you understand Spanish for the next election. The Democrats have already determined what to do with you. They will keep flooding your city and state with illegals until they get the results they want.

Man I don't know about you but I am highly entertained with these crazy white folk's inability to accept Obama. It's hysterical!

Yeah and here is the quote that goes with it: Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963... "These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference... I'll have them ni##ers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years".

Maybe you should try fewer quotes and try to make them of higher intelligence.

About time. The Party that always blows own off its toes finally shows some . . .thought, shall we ? Illinois and National GOP always allow others to define them. When they stop allowing that they might become a politcal . . .not laughing stock.

Boy Mark Konkol needs to go back to history, There are Republicans in EVERY neighborhood. I am GAY & I am A Conservative Republican. Because Democrats are soooo stupid, they are Destroying this Great Country.
WAKE UP PEOPLE !!!!!!!!

I'm confused about why Chris Cleveland was consulted regarding this office opening, but I would like to know more about the Chicago GOP's plan that will be presented to urban voters. I am wondering if this plan was in action when I ran for State Rep and the Chicago GOP ran a white candidate from Kankakee County against me.

And for the record, there was a variety of food on the menu, not just chicken.

You need prayer. I'll pray for you.

Political parties and affiliations are for low information voters who have no critical thinking skills. They are shepherds fleecing the sheep and preparing them for the soup pot.

Wrong Mr. Coward who refuses to use a real name. He was constitutionally qualified to run. I would never deny anyone the right to run for office as long as they met the constitutional requirements. Evidently you do not know the difference between supporting one's right to run and voting for them.

Evidently you cannot read. The column you referred to bashes the GOP for ignoring the candidacy. He had every right to run. He had every right to party support. The Democrats supported a former urban terrorist for years, Bobby Rush. Then there is the former member of the FALN, Luis Guiterrez, who is continually supported by his party. McKinley deserved the same. I support anyone to run who is constitutionally qualified. Does not mean I would vote for them.

Please show me where it says ex felons cannot run for federal office.

If a person runs on a party ballot the party is obliged to support them. It is in their by-laws. They must support all candidates on the ballot.

Oh what? You're going to pretend to have a brain now?

Friends: FGFM here. I post under other
names, but many of you have come to know me as FGFM. For lack of a better term, I’m an Internet troll
and I have a serious problem. As some of
you may have guessed, I have very serious psychological issues. Split personalities, obsessive compulsive
disorder, schizophrenia, perhaps some mild autism, you name it. Sometimes I go “off the meds” and post
incoherently. “Racism!” “You have a
theory!” “Capple-whatever”, and various other posts are the results. Anyway, I simply wanted to say that I’m sorry
and thank you for your patience as I sort through these issues.