Several candidates are still exploring whether to enter the race including the biggest name, Chicago Alderman Joe Moore, 49th Ward, who is an Evanston Township High School graduate.No wonder Joe doesn't have time to speak out on the sad state of his ward. He's looking to cut his losses and get the hell out of Dodge. Don't let the door hit you in the ass.
Moore said Tuesday he is seriously exploring whether to run and expects to make his final decision before Labor Day, in the past the traditional cutoff for candidates to declare for office. Source/Read more.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Run, Joe, Run!
He's robo-polling. By next week we'll all know. Will Joe Moore run for the 18th District State Representative seat?
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It's such a joke. He is hoping his RP base will be the momentum he needs to win and if that does indeed happen, then there really isn't much hope for any change around here. It was funny to be asked if I thought banning foi gras(sp?), was a positive thing in regards to a state rep candidate. Unbelievable.
I'm getting word this poll cost upwards in the neighborhood of $15,000.
You know what that could buy?
15 lakefront parking spaces for 1 year.
More pigeon spikes for the Metra underpass.
3 months payroll for Anne Sullivan.
What would you do with that $15K?
In a perfect world, Joe Moore would not be in politics. That said, what is the lesser Joe Moore evil? Are we better off with Joe Moore the Alderman or Joe Moore the State Rep., I'm thinking the latter.
"Don't let the door hit you in the ass."
Problem with that sentiment is running for Hamos' seat means he's not leaving.
Now if Moore would take a lesson from Hamos and run in another district, say in southern IL or another state...
"Gabel, 56, ... was born in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood ... "
History buffs, how do you get born in RP circa 1953? Was this a home birth or was there a hospital in RP?
Let's put it this way, Hugh.He'd be out of MY district. This man would no longer be MY representative.
That's good enough for me. Let the people North of Touhy suffer.
Yes, Hugh, there was a hospital in Rogers Park in 1953. Doctors Hospital was at the site of the Dunkin' Donuts strip mall on Clark Street between Lunt and Morse. It was torn down in the '80s or '90s and replaced with the strip mall
If Joe becomes a State Representative, the whole STATE will suffer.
Remember, these people vote on issues that affect us all.
Good luck getting the moratorium on new nuclear power plants repealed if Joe gets into the legislature. The flock we have there is bad enough.
"It was torn down in the '80s or '90s and replaced with the strip mall"
Hospitals are nice and all, but that's a great strip mall...
backintherog said... Hospitals are nice and all, but that's a great strip mall...
POST OF THE WEEK!
thanks Carol! you the man
"It was torn down in the '80s or '90s ..."
maybe earlier? I sure don't remember it
Just curious...who's the alternative to Moore? Everybody seems to want him out but is there someone out there who is A) willing to run and B) that you can all get behind? Shouldn't someone be figuring that out now, because I have a feeling there's going to be more than a few people running, which will dilute the vote and when that happens the incumbent usually wins. So...who's your man/woman?
My very dear fellow Rogers Parkers.
I am delighted to hear that the generous and noble Mr. Joe Moore plans to run for a higher office. I can only hope that he will have even more power than he does today. He is making a career out of taking the side of those of us who are poor and disadvantaged. I am sure that if he runs against the likes of George W. Bush as he did in the last aldermanic election, he will see a new victory. I look forward to seeing him do good for even a larger area of the state as he has done for us here in Rogers Park. He has supported my friends and me with our Section 8 vouchers and our complaints about our unfair landlord. God bless him and his future goals.
There are two ways to get rid of a rotten alderman.
1. Indictment
2. Election to a higher office.
I have given up on number one.
Craig? Hugh?
Do either of you have any kind of answer here?
We, the many bloggers of Rogers Park, have put in sooooo much time to get Joe Moore out of politics...and he is stupid enough to run for the 18th Congressionsl District? What will he truly do for them?
Will Joe Moore take the people of the 18th District, just as he has taken those of the 49th Ward into the 21st century of 'Don't look! It's not a crime! But I won't tell, if you don't tell, until Barack says it's a crime (and he KNOWS how to really committ a crime!). And then...I really, really will hesitate to call it a crime.'
BUSHWA! Kiddies...And for those who have been around as long as the aging hippie Michael James, and his eqaually-aging 'partner', Katy Hogan, who are friends and compatriots of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who are friends and compatriots of Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, and Michelle and B arack Obama...May the almighty and eternal grant them all some sort of everlasting peace and a Michael Jackson-like repose, or a reasonable verisimilitude threreof.
Because NONE of them belong on my street!
Run, Joe, Run!
I can't wait for Moore's campaign comnmercial, a West Wing style walking & talking shot down Howard past chique boutiques and trendy restaurants and thriving retail
2nd commercial - Morse streetscape
I think Rachael should run for alderman.....your posts rock my world, Rachael.....Btw, in which election did he run against Bush? I think I might have missed that one.....dangit! See how out of the loop one gets when escaping RP to live in Evanston.
Michael James is a Hippie?
Good one!
The seat that Joe is considering is not the 18th Congressional, it’s the 18th State Representative seat. The candidates who have already committed are Jeff Smith, Eamon Kelly and Patrick Keenan-Devlin. Kelly, tapped by Carol Ronen and other regulars, and Keenan-Devlin, more independent-minded, are both promising young men but their combined potential doesn’t come close to matching Smith’s record of experience and accomplishment.
"What would you do with that $15K?"
I'd erect a monument at the Adelphi crater to Joey Donuts. It would read "Alderman Joe Moore.. He wasn't here to serve. He was here to take."
@Hugh:
I think a Joey ad would feature him with a goose he claimed to have saved from becoming foie gras.
But it wouldn't have anything about Morse Ave., the crime in RP, his bribes from developers & certainly no images of what's now on the Adelphi site.
And Craig, is that plywood over some of the girders at the west end of the Adelphi site new?
I saw Joe Moore on Good Day Chicago this morning. Apparently he screwed up and about 200 peoples cars got towed because his office failed to notify people that they were filming a deodarant commercial and the cars had to be moved or towed.
Hi Rachael - Yep - I missed Moore running against Bush too - hmmmm. So who is this "Rachael in disguise"? The posts are just way too goofy to be a person who truly believes what they write!
There are plenty of candidates considering running there will be no shortage of that.
There is little doubt Fagus is going to run and there are way too many rumors Joe's Wife might run. (although I just don't see it.)
If Joe wins though wouldn't the Mayor appoint his replacement? Any ideas who that would be?
My very dearest fellow Rogers Park neighbors,
Let me humbly reply to those of you who don't remember Mr. Joe Moore running against the very evil, racist, and ignorant George W. Bush. In the campaign literature that I received at my apartment, it was very clear that Mr. Joe Moore was linking his opponent Don Gordon to the horrible Republican party and by name to George W. Bush. I remember thinking at the time that this was a wonderful strategy in that those of us who are disadvantaged and poor hate George W. Bush and would vote for anyone who disagreed with him.
May God bless Mr. Joe Moore and his campaign staff for their successful work. Amen.
See?
Follow the logic.
Don't ever question-just proceed to follow the logic.
small fact check item-
david fagus does not run in the municipal elections. he was re-elected to a 4 year term last year.
and i sure do not remember this hospital. i moved here in 87.
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