LOL IL Leader reports on Keyes' Bud Billiken experience, not pretty! LOL!

wndycty

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Mon Aug-16-04 09:17 AM
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LOL IL Leader reports on Keyes' Bud Billiken experience, not pretty! LOL!

Keyes marches alone at Billiken Parade... and gets ambushed

Monday, August 16, 2004

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But it was not fun for Keyes and his small band of volunteer supporters, who withstood the backlash of Democrat Senate candidate Barack Obama's popularity as, for the first time in U.S. history, two African-American candidates for U.S. Senate faced an African-American crowd.

Keyes marched without any Republican Party support. Flanking him in front and back were nary a Party official to be seen, nor were there any GOP floats, signs, or stickers.

Party Chairman Judy Baar Topinka sent a car on behalf of her State Treasurer's office, but she herself did not participate in the parade.

"Where was the Bush float? The GOP Cook County float? Jim Edgar? Jim Thompson? Any GOP committeemen?" angrily wondered one Keyes marcher. "All their talk of reaching out to this community is meaningless."
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http://www.illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=18618

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benburch

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Mon Aug-16-04 09:19 AM
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1. Wow! Truth in the Leader???

I am stunned.

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wndycty

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Mon Aug-16-04 09:25 AM
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4. Hey they are assholes. . .but their reporting has always been objective

:kick:

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Chili

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Mon Aug-16-04 09:21 AM
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2. and the lightbulb slowly...

...goes on.

"All their talk of reaching out to this community is meaningless."

Doh!

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Terran

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Mon Aug-16-04 09:31 AM
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5. Yep, that about sums it up, doesn't it?

So happy, down here in Missouri, to see that in print!

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Walt Starr

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Mon Aug-16-04 09:21 AM
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3. They smiled all pretty to Keyes to get him to run

and then they ran the other way and left him flapping in the breeze!

LOL, and more an more, Keyes becomes the mainstream face of the GOP to anybody watching this farce!

ROFLMPAO!!!

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madrchsod

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Mon Aug-16-04 09:57 AM
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6. where were all of grover`s right wing thugs?

Edited on Mon Aug-16-04 09:57 AM by rchsod

i guess they don`t have the balls to join the keyes bandwagon. i`m figuring 20% of the republicans will vote for him . good thing the republicans got rid of one party voting.....

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wndycty

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Mon Aug-16-04 10:04 AM
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7. I am sure Grover's guys will show up, but. . .

. . .you know they were not about to show up at Bud Billiken.

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