Only 12 more days to the election . . .
Only 8 more days of early voting . . .
Now for another of our periodic round-ups of coverage of the Geoghegan campaign in the blogosphere.
Gapers Block, the local Chicago blog, had two recent posts which mentioned Tom. The first is this one, titled “Geoghegan wins the ‘I Called It’ contest on Burris.” It quotes the following, from a recent statement the campaign released:
In January, I wrote a piece published in the New York Times about the need to hold a special election to replace not just Barack Obama, but all Senate seats that are vacated. I didn’t write this for political expediency, but to point out that this was a century-old constitutional reform made to take power away from large, monied special interests. We don’t need a new amendment. We just need to follow the one that’s there: the 17th Amendment.
Once again we see our political system at the local, state and federal levels flooded by the influence of big money. Banks receive trillions in bailouts while working people lose their jobs, health care and homes. We are in desperate need of reform in this country; let’s start by holding elections to fill vacant Senate seats.
The other Gapers Block post linked to this interview which Tom recently did with Jeff Berkowitz on his show, Public Access, and said Tom was “makin’ all kinds of sense” on the show. Indeed.
Next, famed blogger Nate Silver, who is based here in Chicago, recently wrote about the IL-05 race. Here’s some of what he had to say:
The most interesting alternative to keep an eye on remains Tom Geoghegan, a labor lawyer and author who has been endorsed by the Cook County nurse’s union and has many connections within the netroots. This is one race, indeed, where an endorsement of Geoghegan by some of the major left-of-center blogs could make a fair amount of difference.
Finally, check out this post on Wallwritings, entitled “Tom Geoghegan Is A Progressive Running to Replace Rahm Emanuel In Illinois’ Fifth; He Could Win.”
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Oct. 8, 2008 NY Times had an Op-Ed from Tom Friedman and there is a great quote from it which is very pertinent to Goeghan’s tax increase ideas
“I grew up in a very middle-class family in a very middle-class suburb of Minneapolis, and my parents taught me that paying taxes, while certainly no fun, was how we paid for the police and the Army, our public universities and local schools, scientific research and Medicare for the elderly. No one said it better than Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: “I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.”