Politics: May 2007 Archives

By Ted Slowik

I love what Kirk Dillard, a Republican who represents about half of Naperville in the state Senate, had to say about our illustrious governor, Rod Blagojevich:

“When the governor ran for office five years ago, he had two press conferences at gas stations when gas was less than $2 a gallon, ripping the (then-) incumbent governor for not doing anything on gas prices even though they were half of what they are today under Blagojevich’s watch,” Dillard said.

In the old days, DuPage County was purely Republican - providing statewide balance to the Democratic stronghold in Cook County. To this day, the DuPage County Board is 100 percent Republican. But some Democratic candidates of late have carried DuPage in state and federal races, and the blue party is hoping to make even more gains in 2008.