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| The Illinois political freak show | |
| 2010-02-01 | |
| Sunday's John Kass column, for your reading pleasure The mighty winds blow across the Illinois prairie as taxpayers wince and prepare for Tuesday's vote. A white guy born of the Democratic machine plays the race card trying to win black support. Consummate Republican insiders spend millions to convince voters they're really outsiders. These people think we're chumbolones. I loved it when Terrence J. O'Brien, a Democrat running for Cook County Board president, compared himself to a giant rodent who would crawl out of the sewers to victory on Tuesday. But my new favorite comes from the bombastic state Sen. Rickey "Hollywood" Hendon, D-Chicago, campaigning for lieutenant governor with an instantly classic radio spot. Hendon's ad features folks at a birthday party, listing Hendon's great deeds, some of which may even be true. Then he uses a cream-filled Hostess snack cake to remind voters that his ballot punch number is 19. The ad ends with one woman asking another to save her a piece of cake. "Girl, you know I can't afford no cake," comes the response, " but I do have a Twinkie with 19 candles on it!" Hendon's great illuminated Twinkie may capture the imagination of the voters and inch him closer to the lieutenant governorship. The job doesn't have any real duties -- except to sit alone in an office, watching Maury Povich and the daytime soaps, and wait for the governor to die or get indicted. Hendon may be the perfect man for the job....
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