Democrat Wins, As Expected, In Race To Replace Emanuel

The Chicago area has a new Congressman. Democrat Mike Quigley easily defeated two other candidates in the race to replace Rahm Emanuel, who left his seat to become President Barack Obama's chief of staff.

Quigley was expected to win in the heavily-Democratic district, but had to beat out 11 other candidates in a free-for-all primary last month.

The Associated Press has more:

Democrat Mike Quigley, a reform-minded Cook County commissioner, has claimed the high-profile Illinois congressional seat that Rahm Emanuel gave up to be President Barack Obama's chief of staff.

The 50-year-old Quigley trounced Republican nominee Rosanna Pulido and Green Party candidate Matt Reichel for the 5th Congressional District seat that Emanuel first won in 2002.

With 56 percent of precincts reporting, Quigley had 15,181 or 74 percent of the vote. Pulido had 3,948 or 19 percent and Reichel had 7 percent.

The district that includes Wrigley Field is a Democratic stronghold stretching from Chicago's wealthy North Side lakefront to ethnic neighborhoods on the northwest side and neighboring Cook County suburbs.

[dj292009]

Gone are the Repig's in 2010!!! YEA
Posted by endeaver-2009

Not all of them

[mattcat25]

OK! I saw the video and was shocked. How could the so called POTUS bow to a Monarch. I guess he wants oil. Any defense for the exhaulted messiahs' actions on this total lack of guts? He may as well have said to the world that America will BOW TO ANYONE and pretty much supplicated the US to the entire world. WEAK,WEAK,WEAK. So much for the intelligence and dignity factor. Now I have seen it all. Why is'nt CBS covering this?
Posted by nolies74621 at 11:37 PM : Apr 7, 2009


I think the gesture of respect by President Obama was more appropriate (to me) then the HOLDING OF HANDS LIKE GEORGE W. BUSH repeatedly did!

[budmag06]

They voted another one in? You would think the good people of Chicago would get tired of being taken by corruption and laughed at.

[wardoglrs]

I guess some here still think that a Dem Or a Repub is a good thing when all you have to do is look at the last 135 years and tell me if you all want to continue with these Cons?. They just robed you of billions and plunged the economy in to a black hole of debt & your still on that platform then we will never get the the true change cause after all it comes and starts with you not Government.

[nolies74621]

Obama bows to Saudi king
Greeting called 'most unbecoming for president of the United States'

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Posted: April 02, 2009
4:12 pm Eastern


By Bob Unruh
? 2009 WorldNetDaily


President Obama greeted the king of Saudi Arabia with a full bow from the waist yesterday, a move one commentator described as a violation of protocol and not worthy of the office he holds.

"I am quite certain that this is not the protocol, and is most unbecoming a president of the United States," writes Clarice Feldman in an American Thinker commentary.

The situation developed as leaders of the world attending the G20 summit in London assembled for a photograph to mark the event.

In this first image, after the king extended his hand while Obama approached, Obama bends from the waist until his head is nearly at the monarch's waist:



OK! I saw the video and was shocked. How could the so called POTUS bow to a Monarch. I guess he wants oil. Any defense for the exhaulted messiahs' actions on this total lack of guts? He may as well have said to the world that America will BOW TO ANYONE and pretty much supplicated the US to the entire world. WEAK,WEAK,WEAK. So much for the intelligence and dignity factor. Now I have seen it all. Why is'nt CBS covering this?

[norcalruss]

Another one bites the dust, yea, yea! It also looks like Coleman has lost to Franken and the Dems will have 59 sentors! Coleman has now lost to a wrestler AND a commedian! Pretty much says it all for the Repignibot party! They are T O A S T !!!!!!!!!!!!

[vincan-2009]

Yahooooooo!! Yeah!!!!! Good job!!!

[bumpedoff1]

No one in chicago votes republican you would be braking
the law