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Whore? Really? by Mike Gold – Brainiac On Banjo #332 | @MDWorld

July 1, 2013 Mike Gold 3 Comments

Brainiac Art 332I can name five animals who eat their young.

1.Polar bears

2.Beetles

3.Hamsters

4.Guppies

5.Republicans

A couple weeks ago GOP Chairman Jim Allen of Montgomery County Illinois called Erika Harold, and I quote: “the love child of the D.N.C.,” “a street walker,” and “Little Queenie.”

There are several things you need know about Erika Harold. In no particular order:

  1. Erika Harold is a Conservative Republican, a delegate to the 2004 Republican National Convention, and a campaign worker for G. W. Bush and other Republican candidates

  2. Erika Harold is an attorney and a graduate of the Harvard Law School

  3. Erika Harold is challenging incumbent Rep. Rodney Davis in the Republican primary for Illinois’ 13th congressional district

  4. Erika Harold is a former Miss America

  5. Erika Harold is black

  6. Erika Harold is part native American, as well as part Greek, German, Welsh, and Russian

It seems as though Ms. Harold has established her bona fides and, quite frankly, she’s exactly the type of person her party needs to bring new voters into the tent. So why does Chairman Jim Allen call her a street walker and a bastard?

Clearly, he’s a Rodney Davis supporter. That’s okay; he’s entitled to support whomever he likes. He’s also a Republican County Chairman, so it comes as no surprise that he has a hysterical fear and loathing of the left coast demon-witch Nancy Pelosi. But to me, a guy who remembers the days when the Republicans would speak no evil of their fellow Republican, it comes as quite a shock when a man in his position so viciously employs such maliciously defamatory language about a fellow party member.

According to the website Republican News Watch, which (you might have guessed) is pro-Republican, here’s Chairman Allen’s email, reprinted here as is without editing or alteration:

From: Jim Allen <jimallen@consolidated.net>

Sent: 06/18/13 10:59 PM

To: dibendahl@mail.com

Subject: 13th Congressional District reply

 

Rodney Davis will win and the love child of the D.N.C. will be back in Shitcago by May of 2014 working for some law firm that needs to meet their quota for minority hires.

The truth is Nancy Pelosi and the DEMOCRAT party want this seat. So they called RINO Timmy Johnson to be their pack mule and get little queen to run.

Ann Callis gets a free ride through a primary and Rodney Davis has a battle.

The little queen touts her abstinence and she won the crown because she got bullied in school,,,boohoo..kids are cruel, life sucks and you move on..Now, miss queen is being used like a street walker and her pimps are the DEMOCRAT PARTY and RINO REPUBLICANS…These pimps want something they can’t get,,, the seat held by a conservative REPUBLICANRodney Davis and Nancy Pelosi can’t stand it..

Little Queenie and Nancy Pelosi have so much in common but the one thing that stands out the most.. both are FORMER QUEENS, their crowns are tarnished and time has run out on the both of them..

Some might say I’m picking on the Republican Party. I am not. I am picking on the malapropos group that is passing for the Republican Party today. These beings do not exhibit anything resembling Republican values – or for that matter, conservative values. They act like rabid three-legged wolves.

I’d like to see the Republicans return to the Grand Old Party. But I’m afraid with fools like (to name but a very few) Jim Allen, Michael Burgess, Trent Franks, Martin Harty, Foster Friess, and Texas Republican state senator Jodie Laubenberg (“rape kits that will help the woman, basically clean her out”), those sing-along days are lost to us forever.

Mike Gold performs the weekly two-hour Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind ass-kicking rock, blues and blather radio show on The Point, www.getthepointradio.com, every Sunday at 7:00 PM Eastern, rebroadcast three times during the week – check the website above for times and streaming information. Gold also joins MDW’s Marc Alan Fishman, Martha Thomases and Michael Davis as a weekly columnist at www.comicmix.com where he pontificates on matters of four-color.

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  1. R. Maheras
    July 1, 2013 - 7:56 am

    Jim Allen was a dumbass, and he resigned.

    But Illinois is full of dumbass politicians — most of which are Democrats, since the Republican presence in Illinois is so small these days.

    So, yes, think you are picking on Republicans.

    By the way, while antiquing last week, I stumbled across a 1963 issue of the “Saturday Evening Post” containing an article declaring then Mayor Richard J, Daley a “dinosaur” politician because of his machine-like hold on Chicago.

    That made me laugh. He was mayor until he died, and after a few hiccups (including Harold Washington’s tumultuous stint as mayor), his son took over where daddy left off and ran Chicago for a couple of decades. The machine is still alive and well with Emanuel’s reign, and even more powerful than it was in 1963, when there were actually six Republican city councilmembers!!! Those days seem positively bipartisan by today’s standards, where there are no Republicans or even independents in the Chicago city council.

    Dinosaur indeed!

  2. Neil C.
    July 1, 2013 - 8:49 am

    It’s because any conservative or GOP party member with common sense refuses to denounce the most extreme members of their party, for fear of having the same things done to them. That’s why Rush Limbaugh and the other foofs are allowed to spread their views with no fear of retribution.

  3. Mike Gold
    July 1, 2013 - 8:58 am

    … or any fear of winning the next election.

  4. Whitney
    July 1, 2013 - 1:59 pm

    He resigned. Yippee.

    But he got elected. And if the story hadn’t have hit the press?

    Nightmare stuff.

  5. Mike Gold
    July 1, 2013 - 3:03 pm

    Russ, the Cook County Democratic Machine probably isn’t dead, but it’s steam-driven and rusty. It was fueled by patronage, and that dissipated after the Shakman Decree. Both Daleys were extremely popular and their constant reelections were the result of the vast majority of voters liking their performance — far, far, far too many votes to steal.

    Rahm might be the beginning of a different machine; he’s a brilliant organizer. Certainly, his absence was felt in the second Obama campaign. But he’s nowhere near as popular as either Daley, or even Jane Byrne — who know how to party.

  6. R. Maheras
    July 2, 2013 - 9:28 am

    Yeah, Emanuel represents a new era for the machine. But the way he iced out the seasoned minority politicians in Chicago shows the old network still has the biggest clout. I so miss columnist Mile Royko’s insight on Chicago’s political shenanigans. He was the best at throwing light on those scurrying cockroaches.

  7. Mike Gold
    July 4, 2013 - 3:22 pm

    It’s a different machine, Russ. Much more cult-of-personality based, and, yes, that’s saying a lot. Some of those seasoned minority pols came up through the ranks of the old machine. We’re probably splitting hairs here; a rose is a rose is a rose.

    I miss Mike Royko every time I read a newspaper. What a magnificent writer. Good grief, I can only imagine the fun he would have had with Blago.

  8. Rick Oliver
    July 5, 2013 - 3:04 pm

    Russ:
    I’m not clear on what the 13th district has to do with Chicago, your pet whipping boy. It’s not even close to Chicago. While only 1/3 of Illinois’ congressional reps are Republican, the party is hardly dead. Illinois has one Democratic and one Republican senator. Before the travesty known affectionately as G-Rod, Illinois had three Republican governors, spanning a quarter-century.

    You really need to stop obsessing about Chicago. We get that you don’t like it. What you don’t seem to get is that one city does not constitute a representative sample of an entire party.

  9. Mike Gold
    July 5, 2013 - 3:45 pm

    Didn’t the last Republican governor just get out of prison? So, he’s, like, available for service to his party once again, right?

  10. Neil C.
    July 5, 2013 - 10:59 pm

    Amen, Rick!

  11. R. Maheras
    July 9, 2013 - 8:54 am

    Rick — Your interpretation of Illinois Republican stats are wrong. Yes, Mark Kirk is a Republican, but if you knew anything about him and his voting record, he could just as easily be a Democrat. And the influence he did have took a major hit when he suffered a debilitating stroke. He has spent a year simply trying to recuperate, and while he’s now back on the job, his power and influence in Illinois is very limited.

    The governorship argument is also flawed, because I’m talking about the Republican Party in Illinois NOW — not 25 years ago.

    The Illinois Republican Party has been in a disarray since the early 2000s. This was especially evident during the Alan Keyes nomination fiasco of 2004, when Republican Sen. Fitzgerald surprised his party by retiring after serving only one term. The Republican candidate of choice, Jack Ryan, won the primary, but when he suddenly left the race after a personal scandal was exposed by the Chicago Tribune, Illinois Republicans could not find anyone to run in his stead.

    After numerous possible Illinois candidates refused to run, Illinois went the carpetbagger route and brought in outsider Alan Keyes. The election was a fiasco, and the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, cruised to an easy victory.

    Republicans in Illinois have been on their heels ever since, have no strong candidates waiting in the wings. Their influence all over the state is waning, and unless some young blood moves in and stops the bleeding, they are, for all intents and purpose, a dead party in Illinois.

    Mike keeps saying that the Illinois Democratic machine is somehow different, yet they seem to enjoy more power now than ever. He argues that the patronage laws crippled the old machine, but he’s kidding himself. Legacy Democrats skirted around those laws, just like they skirted around housing segregation laws passed a few years earlier.

    So, despite the laws, the machine keeps on rolling, and Chicago, to this day, remains one of the most segregated major cities in the country.

  12. George Haberberger
    July 9, 2013 - 2:43 pm

    “Jack Ryan, won the primary, but when he suddenly left the race after a personal scandal was exposed by the Chicago Tribune, Illinois Republicans could not find anyone to run in his stead.”

    Yes the Chicago Tribune and WLS Ch7 sued to unseal Ryan’s divorce files even though the couple had an 9-year-old son. I’m certain their intentions were only those of the public good.
    Even Slate magazine questioned the propriety of this action.

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