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Question #1: Campaign finance

Posted 12 March 2007 | By | Categories: Blogroll | Comments Off

With only a little more than a month until the election, the DGreport.com today begins a weekly series of questions addressed to the mayoral candidates. Each candidate receives the same questions and is given the same amount of space to provide answers. The first series of questions pertain to campaign finance, which has emerged in [...]

Meet and greet

Posted 09 March 2007 | By | Categories: Blogroll | 2 Comments

Downers Grove Community Activists (DGCA) will host a candidate forum at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 10 at the Community School District 99 offices, 6301 Springside Ave. The public is welcome although seating will be limited and questions from the floor will not be allowed. DGCA will endorse candidates based upon their responses to questions posed [...]

We’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto

Posted 06 March 2007 | By | Categories: Blogroll | 27 Comments

The contest for Mayor of Downers Grove is looking more like a big-bucks techno-savvy extravaganza than a small-town debate on local issues. Yesterday, the incumbent put out his first weekly e-newsletter with links to his website while his challenger has posted a You Tube interview on his site. The use of modern technology may be [...]

He said, he said

Posted 02 March 2007 | By | Categories: Blogroll | 7 Comments

He said: You’re a Democrat in Republican’s clothing! He said: Am not! You’re the closet Democrat! He said: We’ve been evicted! It’s all your fault! He said: You’re desperate! I was out of town! He said: What’s with the poll? That’s dirty pool! He said: What do you mean? It’s a political tool! I say: [...]

How to tell which council members are up for re-election:

Posted 28 February 2007 | By | Categories: Blogroll, Village Council | 1 Comment

They’re the ones parsing every dime of every contract the village staff presents for approval. And if someone’s got to spend 15 man-hours to account for a $1,000 difference between bids, it will be money well spent—as long as the voters are watching.