Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Political endorsements or not

These thoughts are mine. They may be shared by many but I am speaking for myself. If you are offended, it was not intentional. If you continually get offended by my positions and opinions, you should change, I doubt I will.
OCTOBER 26, 2010

The election is only a week away. I have made my mind up. Whatever happens from now until the election will be negative and released by the other candidates.

It is no surprise but I strongly endorse Tom Doherty for Circuit Judge. He is the better of the two candidates between Jordan Gallagher and himself. He will be the best Judge between the two. The experience argument is specious at best and a red herring. Only sitting Judges have experience. They all are neophytes at one point. Two years on the bench, much of it in ‘dog-bite’ Court in Aurora doesn’t provide enough experience to defeat the better candidate, Ton Doherty. Vote for Tom Doherty.

In the campaign for DeKalb County State’s Attorney, the decision is an easy one. A seasoned trial lawyer, experienced with over twenty years in the Courtroom easily trumps an inexperienced bureaucrat who moved from the Chicago area just to run for a high-paying government job with the backing of her heavily connected father and his powerful associates. Clay Campbell has earned our respect and our vote. Ms. Chami merely picked her parents right. She has not earned anything.

For Governor, get Quinn out of there as soon as humanly possible. Bill Brady is the best candidate and the only major candidate with real world experience in modern business. Brady has accomplishments outside of the government arena. He is being vilified for being successful. I always thought it was a good thing to be a millionaire but not in Quinn’s world. He calls Brady on the carpet for claiming tax deductions. Brady did not make the tax laws and should not be criticized for following them. Quinn is in way over his head. He does not have the intelligence, backbone or trustworthiness to continue as the Governor of Illinois. He got the job by default. He wasn’t ready then and he isn’t ready now. He has bought off most of the available unions. The voters of Illinois must make sure Quinn is a long-forgotten memory when the unions come calling to cash in their chips.

The United States Senate seat once occupied by President Obama is being sought by two people who do not deserve to win. One of these liars is going to win. One would take the Chicago outfit with him and the other would take a war chest full of bogus military awards with him. Neither will take honesty or the respect of the voters with them. “None of the above” should be an option. 

I vote in every election. I vote on every issue and race. This year that will change. I will not vote for either Kirk or Giannoulias. I will leave that race blank. You may call that a waste or say “vote or don’t complain” In this election, voting for either one of the two main candidates would be a wasted vote. I have already complained. If this is the best the two main parties could come up with as major candidates, we are in bigger trouble than I first thought.

I do not support Bill Foster. Randy Hultgren will get my vote. Bill Foster is the invisible Congressman. He has never done anything on his own. He lends his name to a few bills that are sure to pass so he can make campaign claims but I am not aware of a single original, independent idea he has come up with. Randy Hultgren can do a better job. He is another candidate being attacked for following the law. Foster says Hultgren’s employer took bailout money. He doesn’t say Hultgren took bailout money, I suspect because he didn’t.  Foster voted for the bailout and now wants to be reelected because a company followed the law he made and took the bailout money. Foster is making a circular argument on that one and it always leads back to the incumbents that voted for the laws they now complain about. That argument is similar to a person who kills his parents and then asks the Court for leniency because he is an orphan. Didn’t work then, won’t work now. Vote for Randy Hultgren.

Notable births on this date:

1879 Leon Trotsky Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet)
1916 Fran‡ois Mitterand Jarnac France, President of France (1981-1995)
1919 Edward W Brooke 1st black senator in over 80 yrs (Sen-R-Mass)
1947 Hilary Rodham Clinton First Lady (1993-)

Notable deaths on this date:

901 King Alfred the Great, die
1868 B F Randolph SC state senator, assassinated
1909 Prince Ito of Japan is assassinated by a Korean
1979 Park Chung-hee South Korean President is assassinated

Notable events on this date:

1774 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia
1881 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Az
1955 Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as pres
1972 Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam
1975 Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit the US
1976 Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

Email: brucebrennanlaw@aol.com