"Gilligan" hopes to get off the island
It's already becoming a joke.
Brian Gilliland's friends call him "Gilligan" -- a name he says will appear on the ballot as he runs for U.S. Congress to try to unseat the current captain ... err... U.S. Rep. Lane Evans D-Rock Island in 2006.Methinks that "Gilligan" has aborbed a few too many blows to the head with the Skippers cap.
"The time is right for change in our district," Mr. Gilliland said. Mr. Evans "hasn't been doing his job recently. We've lost too many jobs. I can bring fresh ideas to the job.
"We've been on an island of shrinking opportunities, left to fend for ourselves. We've been stranded on this island for way too long."
Mr. Gilliland is the second Republican to announce a Congressional run against Mr. Evans.
Mr. Gilliland said his recent dealings with Aledo as he tried to start a subdivision fueled his Congressional ambitions. The city wouldn't budge with certain infrastructure ordinances and has made his effort to start building a little harder.Now there's a rock solid reason to run for office. Personal profit! At least he's upfront about it. After all, if there's one problem facing our area that everyone can agree on, it's the lack of government welfare for businessmen. Businessmen such as "Gilligan" shouldn't be required to follow laws, rules, ordinances, zoneing laws and such crap.
Sheesh. Somehow I think that like his TV alter-ego, this "Gilligan" is never going to get off the island.
(and since when is Lane Evans referred to as "Mr. Evans"? Shouldn't it be "Rep. Evans" or "Congressman Evans"?)
posted by The Inside Dope @ 4/26/2005
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5 Comments:
A big "Damn right!" to Dissenter.
But you forgot to add that if a politician can't walk in parades and read the news on TV, why, what the hell good are they? Evidently that's what the Repubs think we need. Local news talking heads! They're the only ones qualified to lead us, damn it!
Of if there's none of them available, lets get some former sports star or coach like the Repubs do out west. They're big and strong... not too bright, mind you, actually some pretty dim bulbs, but they're STRONG and MANLY damn it!
That's what this country needs. Not competence, thoughtfullness, intelligence and good judgement. We need GOOD LOOKING PEOPLE to lead us!!!!
If the public ever realized the true Republican agenda, the prisons would be stuffed with them.
The entire party is based on marketing and PR. In other words, bullshit.
Sell the candidates like laundry detergent. And lord knows a pretty face helps sell the hogwash.
People struggling with physical ailments are just too "real" for the public to buy. It's much better to go with an empty vessel that knows how to deliver lines.
That's been the Repubican M.O. for decades now.
Candidate, schmandidate, just hire a spokesperson.
They elected a cartoon action figure as Governor of California after all.
And Lord knows that we should have gotten rid of that crippled F.D.R. before he enacted the most successful social programs in history and led us to vicory in WWII. At least it could have saved the Republicans all this work They're doing trying to bamboozle the public into believing that throwing it all away is actually good for them.
And as to Republican Joes comments re: the future of Lane's seat. I point out that he's ignoring an important scenario.
Supposing that Evans' voluntarily leaves his seat, a strong Dem could emerge from the primaries and mop the floor with whatever spokesmodel the R's dredge up this time.
Don't make the mistake of presuming that if Evans goes, an R replaces him.
I got a lot of weight-lifting done in the joint.
And R Joe... thanks for your comments. I hope you continue to offer your views and opinions.
But I hope you're speaking for yourself when you say we want to touch and feel our candidates. Ewwwww. haha.
I mean, Denny Jacobs is a fine guy, but I don't really want to "feel" him. He'd probably punch me out if I did anyway.
And I suggest that the cermonial aspect of a politicians job is certainly unimportant. It's done mainly for the politicians benefit, not the public's.
I'm certain that the vast majority of politicians would LOVE it if they didn't have to spend so much time attending ceremonial events. They take up a lot of their time and take away from their being able to do real work (or just relax, for that matter)
Just imagine if politicians didn't have to spend any time on fund raising or ceremonial stuff. Wow. Then they'd really have to produce something other than fluff and hystronics. It would make their lives so much better and would likely result in much more effort being devoted to the business of representing their constituents.
And late for committees? Hell, most politicians would wish that they could just use cardboard cut-outs for those anyway. Unless they're televised, it's mostly for show anyway.
And the use of surrogates in Evan's case is not particularly a bad thing. They're just as capable of listening, speaking, and reporting back to Evans. In his condition, using others to be his eyes and ears isn't a bad thing, in my opinion.
That said, Evans can't serve forever, and there needs to be someone with a lot of appeal to replace him on the Dem side of things. Perhaps a lack of such a candidate is a factor in Evans' deciding whether to continue to run?
Boy, nothing gets past you relevant.
If Evans were a republican, I for one would want him out of office as soon as possible. If he were a Republican, he'd be dangerously wrong on so many issues and so much in thrall to the elite economic class that I'd do everything I could to get rid of him.
But Evan's is a Dem, and he holds views and positions that I very much agree with.
Glad to see that you have alertly recognized that there's a difference between the parties.
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