Despite Republican William J. Kelly’s loss to former Illinois Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka, Illinois Right of Way Daily was pleased to see Kelly defeat his opponent, Jim Dodge and a dirty smear campaign orchestrated by long-time Topinka associate and Democrat operative, Joe Novak.
Kelly’s victory shows that Republicans rejected the smears and the falsehoods of Dodge, the Champion News’ Jack Roeser and Doug Ibendahl, and didn’t like being manipulated by paid bloggers like Lynn Thomas. Voters scoffed at the growing mountain of falsehoods against Kelly, finding them strange and bizaare. Indeed, they are. Now true conservatives are tuning out of these wierd blogs and finding other places to spend their time then in their closets, eating cheese doodles, and reading these sad, tabloidy-blogs. Christian conservative were among the first to reject these type of blogs and these type of political candidates, recognizing the danger in reading, spreading, and continuing to perpetrate provable falsehoods. (Yes, the Eighth commandment still exists). So, to all of those who have come out of the darkness of ignorance and hate, Illinois Right of Way Daily welcomes you.
GREAT SHADES OF DEEP THROAT: DODGE, LYNN “CAO” THOMAS CAUGHT IN TEA PARTY-GATE LIE
NIXONIAN PARALLELS: DODGE, PAID BLOGGER THOMAS CAUGHT IN MASSIVE TEA PARTY LIE
After weeks of filling up the Illinois political blogs with its rumor and lie-ridden muck, comptroller candidate Jim Dodge, unhinged members of his staff, and paid bloggers like Lynn “Cao” Thomas have just been caught in a massive deceit of their own making. If Deep Throat were still around, Thomas’ bizarrely-written stalker-esque blogs against Bill Kelly would have been his next big expose’.
Therapy may be in order here as Thomas is strangely and unnaturally fixated on Republican candidate William J. Kelly. Apparently, from facebook entries, one of Thomas’ main sources of a female campaign worker for Dodge, who was distraught and angry Kelly did not hire her for his campaign. Given the pattern exhibited in these blogs of unstable behavior and commentary by Thomas and the staffer source, Illinois Right of Way Daily cannot blame Kelly in the least. Thomas and her source’s erratic behavior has been on display and over such an extended period of time.
If this isn’t a case for emotional instability, Illinois Right of Way Daily doesn’t know what is. We suppose it could be that the value of the financial quid-pro-quo Thomas’ candidate, Paul Mitchell, received from Dodge benefactor, Jack Roeser, was more than the $5,000 Dodge’s D-2 disclosures revealed. The Topinka-Dodge linked- tall tales raises serious questions: do bloggers have any responsibility to tell the truth on the internet? To support their contentions with any facts? Should blogger audiences hold them accountable for factually unsupportable postings and, thus, should we turn our backs on them? If we read and perpetuate their falsehoods, aren’t we as hateful and as terrible as they are? Aren’t we guilty of the very same lies and deceptions as our left-wing counterparts?
Thomas reported her in blog last week that Kelly attended a Tea Party event and was thrown out after he attempted to speak. Thomas then fabricated a hearsay with conversation and slapped a headline on her blog claiming that Kelly lied. However, it turns out the this “Tea Party” event was anything but. The Lynn “Cao” Thomas/Dodge story does not bear out with facts that have been uncovered by Kelly’s own campaign. The Park Ridge event organizer bragged in the American Liberty Alliance Blog: “The Park District had to have a name of the group holding the meeting so I made one up for them. Tea Party Conservatives. So far I am the only member.” See this link at: http://americanlibertyalliance.com/blog/2009-12-24/lets-talk-recalls/
Illinois Right of Way Daily has heard from the grassroots that the official tea party movement is very upset that the Tea Party name has been misused yet again. This particular event had already chosen and endorsed its candidates before the event took place. That is not what the Tea Party Movement is about. The Tea Party Movement is about truth, freedom, and giving everyone the chance to speak out. It is not about manipulating events and candidacies to your political benefit. According to official Tea Party alerts, Mr. Kelly received the Tea Party’s highest rating and future political event organizers should take extreme care not to exploit the Tea Party’s good name.
In the opinion of Illinois Right of Way Daily, Republican candidate Jim Dodge, paid bloggers like Lynn “Cao” Thomas, and Dodge supporters, Jack Roeser and Doug Ibendahl have truly disgraced and discredited themselves and whatever they might have stood for – or not – in this campaign. With Jim Dodge’s hired Democrat political consultant, Joe Novak, a long-time associate of Judy Baar Topinka’s, we have no doubt who has drummed up the dirt and thrown it into the wind. Surely, they were not expecting to get a mouth full of dirt back in their own faces. That is true justice.
The campaign for comptroller in Illinois has come to mean much more than a campaign for the lowest tier statewide office. It asks the question: Do we participate in the politics of dirt, lies, and politics of the past or do we begin to talk about truth, principles, and a new Republican party led by a vibrant new populism? It is your decision. Choose.
