Category Archives: Chicago's Election Headquarters
McCarthy and others react to Van Dyke verdict
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Bill Cameron has the round up reaction from local politicians to the Van Dyke verdict. At City Hall, Emanuel and his police supt Eddie Johnson issued a statement...
Oct 05, 2018
Dem Manchin says he’ll vote to confirm Kavanaugh
WASHINGTON (AP) - The remaining undecided Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin, says he will support Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The West Virginia senator announced his decision moments after the rem...
Oct 05, 2018
Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh clears crucial Senate hurdle
[van id=”politics/2018/10/05/brett-kavanaugh-senate-cloture-vote-passes-ath-vpx.cnn”] By LISA MASCARO and ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - A deeply divided Senate pushed Brett...
Oct 05, 2018
Senators start reading crucial new FBI file on Kavanaugh
By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Senators began reviewing the new FBI background file on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh Thursday and will use the confidential m...
Oct 04, 2018
Pritzker and Rauner debate toilets, taxes, then get personal
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Democratic Attorney General Lisa Madigan has opened a criminal investigation into Republican Governor Bruce Rauner’s handling of the Legionaries disease cr...
Oct 04, 2018
Job Market Continues to Roll
Employers continue to hire according to a new report from ADP and Moody’s Analytics . The report indicates that private companies added 230,000 more positions for the month. Those additions are ...
Oct 03, 2018
Sen. Corker believes Kavanaugh will be confirmed, Democrats “overplayed their hand”
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee pressed hard for an FBI probe into Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged past. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee says they “overplayed their hand” attempti...
Oct 03, 2018
Quigley says 7 days is not enough for FBI to investigate Kavanaugh
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Democrats are already saying 7 days is not enough for the FBI to investigate Kavanaugh further. One of the Democrats the party is trotting out to make the case t...
Oct 02, 2018
White House tells FBI it can talk to anyone about Kavanaugh
By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House has given the FBI clearance to interview anyone it wants to by Friday in its investigation of sexual misconduct a...
Oct 02, 2018
Report: A “scheme to defraud” saved Pritzker over $300k
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) A Cook County Inspector General’s investigation has concluded a “scheme to defraud” gave Democratic candidate JB Pritzker a few hundred thousan...
Oct 02, 2018
