illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
From Congressman Mark Kirk's office: WASHINGTON U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) tonight voted against Speaker Pelosi's trillion-dollar 1,990-page government health care bill, just hours after House leaders refused to allow an up-or-down vote on the congressman's amendment to prohibit the...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL), who is seeking the Senate in 2010, has been running to the far right to appease his base and win the Republican primary. Kirk has been actively seeking Sarah Palin’s endorsement, hoping she will burnish his right-wing credentials. However, when ThinkProgress interviewed Kirk yesterday, he seemed tepid about accepting an endorsement [...]
2008 Democratic Convention Watch (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Think the Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin/Teabagger campaign craziness ended in the 23rd District of New York on Tuesday? Think again. Between Mark Kirk’s groveling for Sarah Palin’s endorsement, Charlie Crist’s forgetting he endorsed the stimulus, and Rob Simmons carrying a teabag in his pocket, we present three previously-reported “centrists” becoming extreme right-wingers before...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
When word broke that self-described moderate Republican Mark Kirk was angling for kind words from Sarah Palin for his U.S. Senate bid, the response from his rivals was savage and uniform. All three leading Democrats, as well as Kirk's Republican challenger, accused him of inconsistency, a criticism that has nagged Kirk ever since he backed away from his vote in favor of climate change legislation in...
Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
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Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Republican Rep. Mark Kirk created a stir by asking for help from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in his bid for the party's U.S. Senate nomination on Feb. 2. Now that quest for help has become fundraising fodder for one of the Democrats seeking the seat. Read more on Clout Street at chicagotribune.com .
Clout St (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Posted by Rick Pearson at 5:40 p.m. Republican Rep. Mark Kirk created a stir by asking for help from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in his bid for the party's U.S. Senate nomination on Feb. 2. Now that quest for...
U.S. Politics and the World (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
corn1971 posted a reply: The IL Republican party went through what the national party is now going through. For decades the Governor's office was held by Republicans, moderates like Jim Thompson, Jim Edgar & George Ryan. George Ryan had been the Sec of State before becoming Gov. A license for bribes scandal would hound him, ultimately leading him not to run for re-election and a prison conviction....
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
from the Hughes for U.S. Senate campaign (HINSDALE, IL) – A new Wilson Research analysis of polling data from the U.S. Senate campaigns of Mark Kirk and Patrick Hughes, respectively, indicates bad news for the Kirk campaign. This comes on...
First Read (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
From NBC's Mark MurrayThe Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is trying its best to squeeze every ounce out of the Mark Kirk-Sarah Palin story. A quick recap: First, the Washington Post's Cillizza got his hands on Kirk's letter to Palin friend Fred Malek, inquiring if Palin might endorse the Illinois congressman in his Senate primary. Then, as we reported earlier today, one of Kirk's conservative...
Peoria Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
You know how moderate U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk supposedly asked Sarah Palin for an endorsement. Rick Miller discovered it never happened: I probably should’ve known better than to believe the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza yesterday when he wrote… Illinois Rep. Mark Kirk penned a memo to Republican poobah Fred Malek hoping to secure an endorsement from [...]
First Read (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
From NBC's Domenico Montanaro Patrick Hughes , a conservative running for Obama's U.S. Senate seat next year, is out with a statement after the news came out of his primary opponent Mark Kirk 's appeal to Sarah Palin for her endorsement. "I believe Mark Kirk, who has consistently supported President Obama's legislative agenda, including cap and trade legislation, is quickly realizing that Republican...
THE METHODS REPORTER (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Cap'n Trade Mark Kirk is an oily kind of jerk. He moves like mercury. He voted for the Waxman Markey Global Warming Stick-Up of America for General Electric! Kirk was the ONLY Republican in the... (Like this story? Click the headline to vote it up on WindyCitizen.com)
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Daily Beast interviews Erick Erickson : Erickson, however, says the “purge” is largely exaggerated. “I’m fine with Mark Kirk in Illinois, Mike Castle in Delaware, even Olympia Snowe and Sue Collins in Maine,” he said. “There are places where conservatives can’t win. My problem is where the right can win, the GOP should go right.” Seems quite sensible...
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
WHEN A 'MODERATE' GIVES UP ON MODERATION.... In the 109th* Congress, which ended last year, Rep. Mark Kirk (R) of Illinois was one of the House Republican caucus' most moderate members. This year, he voted with Democrats on a cap-and-trade...
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