By Mark Rhoads It should not really be such a big suprise that Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-19-IL) had a very difficult time on Wednesday answering a simple question from WLS radio host Don Wade as to her opinion about how…

WASHINGTON – A major component of the bi-partisan compromise debt ceiling bill that passed Congress last week was a special "super-committee" assigned with the job of finding a long term solution that would limit budget spending and energize a sluggish…

WASHINGTON — Wednesday on a press conference call with reporters Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus joined failed gubernatorial candidate (Ed. note – that was BIll Brady) and current Illinois GOP Chairman Pat Brady to level baseless attacks toward President…

CHICAGO – Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady said that Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky’s defense of the failed economic policies of President Obama and Illinois Governor Pat Quinn proves once again that she is clueless. In a press release from the…

from John Ruberry, Marathon Pundit The Democrats want to return to a favored theater of action–class warfare. Earlier today my congresscritter, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), introduced what she is calling the "Fairness in Taxation Act." If Schakowsky gets her way,…

Illinois’ 9th Congressional District, like most congressional districts across the country, has not exactly been hotly contested in recent years. Like most other districts, it was drawn with the incumbent in mind—so that its current representative, Democrat Jan Schakowsky, has always had a safe seat despite her far-left political orientation, never facing more than token Republican opposition.

But it is contested now. In what looks like a strong Republican year, a GOP political novice is hoping to pull off what would certainly be one of the most stunning congressional upsets in …

Please join Tom Roeser as he welcomes Robert Creamer, political analyst and husband of Rep. Jan Schakowsky, and Kevin White, former candidate in the Illinois 5th district. to Political Shootout, Sunday night at 8PM on WLS AM-890.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Pollak campaign welcomes Schakowsky supporters to “Women For Pollak” event on Sunday, August 22

NILES, IL – August 20, 2010 – A political action committee from outside the 9th District that supports incumbent Democrat Jan Schakowsky has told its members to “show up” and disrupt Joel Pollak’s “Women for Pollak” campaign event in Skokie this Sunday.
The Joint Action Committee for Political Affairs (JAC PAC), which is based in the 10th District suburb of Highland Park, sent an email to supporters accusing Pollak of running a “smear campaign” …

To get even more information about Alan Dershowitz, Joel Pollack and Jan Schakowsky, be sure to tune in to Tom Roeser on WLS-AM890 at 8PM on Sunday where his guests include Robert Creamer, husband of Rep. Schakowsky and Dan Sugrue, Republcian candidate for 59th district state House (Lake county).
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Alan Dershowitz has endorsed Republican Joel Pollack for US Representative in the Illinois 9th over incumbent Democrat Jan Schakowsky.

It’s in Politico, a Washington Post Blog, while Chicago Now posts a press release from the Pollak campaign in one of our favorite blogs. TPM and Salon ridicule Dershowitz for straying from the apparatchik’s devotion to Pollak’s opponent Jan Schakowsky.
The Tribune and Sun-Time’s missed it, they must have been otherwise engaged with nitpicking Mark Kirk’s teaching record (Sun-Times)  or nitpicking Mark Kirk’s military record (Tribune).
Carol Felsenthal does the full job on …