Politics: June 2008 Archives

BY DAVE PARRO

Congressional candidate Jim Oberweis has been making the rounds as part of a sustained effort to reshape his image, as reported on this blog before.

One of his latest stops was The Courier News in Elgin, where he talked about the mistakes he made during his first campaign and how's he's confident he can beat Rep. Bill Foster the second time around.

Does he have a chance if he can show voters the "real" Jim Oberweis, which he says is the milkman and grandfather, not the bulldog politician?

BY DAVE PARRO

Illinois lawmakers were patting themselves on the back for hastily passing a state budget last week that everyone admits is not balanced, but they still left plenty of business unfinished.

The most significant failure is the lack of a capital bill, despite the best efforts of two respected Illinois politicians. If Dennis Hastert and Glenn Poshard can't get meaningful things done in Springfield, then no one can. (But we really already knew that.)

But the former Republican House speaker and former Democratic congressman from southern Illinois aren't giving up yet.