During the upcoming negotiations over the bargaining agreement, we write to ask that the Major League Baseball Players Association agree to a prohibition on the use of all tobacco products at games and on camera at all Major League ballparks. This would send a strong message to young baseball fans, who look toward the players as role models, that tobacco use is not essential to the sport of baseball.
The World Series highlights the importance of this issue. Tomorrow night, an expected 15 million viewers, including many children, will …

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I am writing on behalf of Congressman Mark Kirk, our Republican Nominee for the United States Senate.  As you know, I challenged Congressman Kirk for the nomination in the February primary.  Although the Congressman and I disagree on some important issues, on those most critical to our nation right now—the size and scope of government, the faltering economy, and national security—we agree.

The Congressman is facing President Obama acolyte Alexi Giannoulias for the Senate seat that the President, who once held the seat, is desperate to keep in the hands of …

Independent Scott Lee Cohen is holding job fairs.  He’s “the only candidate for governor holding job fairs in Illinois,” as we are reminded hourly.  This is in some ways the scariest of all, because it plays to such economic ignorance.

This is not to say anything against job fairs, by the way.  They’re fine.  A job fair makes a little money for the hotel that hosts it, for the caterer who provides the doughnuts and cookies, and sometimes for the promoter as well.  All good, all fine.  And sometimes people who …

The Illinois Review has a great interview with an SEIU Member who objects to the radical agenda of the Union leaders.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie today endorsed Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady.
Governor Christie joined Brady at campaign events in Chicago, Peoria and Springfield that highlighted Brady’s plan for putting Illinois back to work, and for making a clean break from the tax and spend policies of the Quinn/Blagojevich administrations.
“Governor Christie is standing up for taxpayers of his state against the big government, tax and spending crowd, and I’m honored to have his support,” said Brady.
“He knows New Jersey can’t tax and spend its way out of its fiscal crisis, and …

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, from the day George Ryan took office as governor in January 1999 through the last year of the administration of Rod Blagojevich in 2008, a net number of 637, 979 former Illinois residents moved out of the state and have not returned or been replaced by others moving in.

Illinois now ranks 48 of the 50 states in net migration. California and New York lost more people, more than 1.4 and 1.7 million respectively.
Read more at the Illinois Review

Republican candidate for LG Jason Plummer drew the line in the sand against releasing his individual tax return to the public weeks ago, and he’s not budging, no matter how hard the media pushes.  In an interview with Associated Press, he said:
“I don’t think a person’s economic status, their financial status, should be a standard for whether or not they can run for office,” Plummer said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I’ve never voted for anyone because they’re rich or poor, white collar or blue collar. I vote on the …

From the Illinois Review
The Illinois House of Representatives is considering a key vote right now. Senate Bill 2494 would save thousands of children from Chicago’s worst schools by giving them a voucher allowing them to attend the school of their choice.

This program has been successful in other states, and it won’t cost downstate or suburban schools any money. After years of your tax dollars going to failing schools, this bill will also hold Chicago Public Schools accountable for their performance.
Is your legislator standing with the kids who need help, or …

I have just returned from an outstanding GOP unity event led by Pat Brady.
My enthusiasm for this year and its opportunity to serve the people of Illinois is growing in light of the extraordinary ticket we nominated and situation we face.
The GOP gubernatorial race appears to be on its way to amicable resolution.  Why?  Because Kirk Dillard, Bill Brady and (no relation) Pat Brady are class acts who know that first, Illinois’ election administrators owe GOP primary voters and the people of Illinois a clean and solid count.
In other words, they are declining …