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Writers and Cartoonists for Obama will be hosting a fundraiser tonight, auctioning off a donated pool of signed books and political cartoons. Funds raised from the auction will go towards the cost of bussing Illinois residents to Iowa to canvass voters for Obama.
Following the auction, a group of local writers will briefly read from their selective work “that is very fun, very interesting, very political (in the broadest sense).” The evening will wrap up with a group viewing of the third and final presidential debate. All money raised from the fundraiser’s ticket sales will be donated to Obama for America.
Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division St., 10/15, 5:30 p.m., $50 per person in advance online, $60 at the door, 25 and under can pay their ages.
Obama and McCain acceptance speech wordles via Thomas Hawk
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So I guess Chicagoist is not even pretending to be anything but a publicity mouthpiece for the Obama campaign. This posting even includes a link to his website, where we can donate money!
I understand that the editors of this site are liberal, but shouldn't they make the Obama campaign pay for this kind of advertising?
Is anyone bothered by this besides me?
mss2400-
You have a completely valid point. If you or anyone has info about a McCain fundraising event send it my way, and I would be happy to post on it.
eh.
I mean, go ahead and insert a link to Mccain's site too, but does anyone really care if Chicagoist supports one candidate or the other?
Seriously, a few posts up the page you're making fart jokes about Chipotle. This isn't exactly a bastion of high-minded journalism.
I don't have much to add to the comments above. It really should not be called "Chicagoist" if you are going to have political ads like this one serving as Chicagoist articles.
And I am not trying to be funny or sarcastic.
Readers should be aware that Chicagoist is the only "-ist" site in the country that is openly and rabidly pro-Democrat.
Think, for a minute, Chicagoist. There might be a reason why your "-ist" brethren have avoided your level of partisanship.
Shouldn't this be a website about Chicago-related matters? And not a website for pushing the liberal views of the staff?
Here's something about Obama and his friends the Obamaist won't be covering but affects the nation and chicago.
BOGUS VOTER BOOTED AMID PROBE OF ACORN
4,000 OF LEFT-WING GROUP'S SIGN-UPS ARE SHADY
Comments: 227Read Comments Leave a Comment By JEANE MacINTOSH in Cleveland and MAGGIE HABERMAN in New York
Click to enlargeLast updated: 10:11 am
October 14, 2008
Posted: 3:44 am
October 14, 2008
Investigators probing ACORN have learned that an Ohio man registered to vote several times and cast a bogus ballot with a fake address, officials said yesterday, as they revealed that nearly 4,000 registration applications supplied by the left-leaning activist group were suspect.
The vote of Darnell Nash, one of four people subpoenaed in a Cuyahoga County probe of ACORN's voter-registration activities, was canceled and his case was turned over to local prosecutors and law enforcement, Board of Elections officials said yesterday.
Nash had registered to vote repeatedly from an address that belonged to a legitimately registered voter, officials said during a hearing at which the subpoenaed voters were to testify.
Board officials had contacted Nash this summer, questioned his address and told him to stop repeat registering.
But still, he breezed into Ohio election offices - the state allows early voting for president - reregistered with a fake address and cast a paper ballot, officials said.
"He came in on 9/30 and Mr. Nash again registered to vote at [someone else's] address, and he cast a ballot," said board official Jane Platten.
Nash did not turn up for the hearing.
The Post reported last week on the Cleveland-area probe and the subpoenas, which were sent out to four people - including two voters who said they were hounded by ACORN workers to register over and over, even when they warned they'd already done so.
It's the latest issue in the probe of ACORN's registering voters in Ohio, one of at least nine states where officials are investigating similar reports of phony sign-ups by the group.
At the same time, officials said, some 5 percent, or 3,650, of the 73,000 total registration cards turned in by ACORN in the Cleveland area from its Project Vote initiative to sign up low-income voters were "questionable," Platten said
Obama used to work with Acorn things that make you say HMMMMM
weeeeelllll ... considering that Obama lives in Chicago, started his career as a community organizer in Chicago and represented part of Chicago in the State Legislature, it makes sense for Chicagoist to dedicate a lot of space to Obama, more so than, say, Austinist.