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Obama Media http://obamamedia.com/blog Covering the coverage of Illinois' Junior Senator Wed, 02 May 2007 03:00:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en How Pookie and Squirt Contributed to Obama’s First Campaign http://obamamedia.com/blog/2007/04/04/how-pookie-and-squirt-contributed-to-obamas-first-campaign/ http://obamamedia.com/blog/2007/04/04/how-pookie-and-squirt-contributed-to-obamas-first-campaign/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:48:55 +0000 Administrator obama Chicago http://obamamedia.com/blog/2007/04/04/how-pookie-and-squirt-contributed-to-obamas-first-campaign/ David Jackson and Ray Long continue the Tribune’s exploration of Obama’s career. They detail Obama’s debut 1996 State Senate campaign and his adoption of the tried and true Chicago tactic, challenging the signatures on his opponents’ petitions:

in that initial bid for political office, Obama quickly mastered the bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics. His overwhelming legal onslaught signaled his impatience to gain office, even if that meant elbowing aside an elder stateswoman ….

A close examination of Obama’s first campaign clouds the image he has cultivated throughout his political career: The man now running for president on a message of giving a voice to the voiceless first entered public office not by leveling the playing field, but by clearing it….”We looked at those petitions and found that none of them met the requirements of the law,” Dobry said. “Alice’s people, they’d done it in a great hurry. Almost all her petitions were signed a day or so before the deadline.”

According to Davis, Palmer “had kids gathering the names. I remember two of her circulators, Pookie and Squirt.”

]]> http://obamamedia.com/blog/2007/04/04/how-pookie-and-squirt-contributed-to-obamas-first-campaign/feed/ Obama v. SEIU in Chicago Aldermanic Race http://obamamedia.com/blog/2007/03/23/obama-v-seiu-in-chicago-aldermanic-race/ http://obamamedia.com/blog/2007/03/23/obama-v-seiu-in-chicago-aldermanic-race/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:17:36 +0000 Administrator Uncategorized Chicago Labor SEIU http://obamamedia.com/blog/2007/03/23/obama-v-seiu-in-chicago-aldermanic-race/ Rich Miller, whose Capital Fax Blog is tracking Obama at Obamarama, has a piece in the Sun Times on Obama’s involvement in the city’s Third Ward aldermanic runoff. An SEIU-backed outsider with a history of community development (Pat Dowell) is running against a long-term incumbent (Dorothy Tillman)  who, while a champion for civil rights for decades, is infamous for her nepotism and toting a pistol during a session of the City Council. Obama is supporting Tillman, who is likely to lose.

Fresh, independent-minded candidates, most helped by labor unions, forced 10 Machine aldermen into runoff elections this year. But now the “Empire” is striking back, and liberal icon Barack Obama is helping the Old Guard in at least one of those races.

Obama is set to endorse the always controversial 3rd Ward Ald. Dorothy Tillman in her runoff against hard-charging independent Pat Dowell. Obama isn’t alone. Almost every black political, religious and civil rights leader in the city is lending support to Tillman, who scored just 43 percent in the first round of voting, finishing a mere 400 votes ahead of Dowell.

About the only major political figure not backing Tillman right now is U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who just helped elect his wife, Sandi, to the City Council. Jackson said this week he plans to put at least 150 foot soldiers into the 3rd Ward come Election Day, but he tried to downplay the fact that this is the first time he and Obama have ever opposed each other in a local race….others are wondering how Obama’s decision to back such a die-hard proponent of slavery reparations will play in Iowa and New Hampshire.

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