Gubernatorial Race

• Pat Quinn is out with a new attack against Bill Brady for…not owing taxes over the past two years? Huh?
• The Journal Star says Quinn is “making it easy”  for Brady to walk away with the governor’s mansion.
• Meanwhile, legislators are perturbed to varying degrees over Pat Quinn’s decision to climb into bed with the unions and put budgetary constraint to the wind.
• And Pat Quinn is evidently in high dudgeon over Bill Brady, who is still trouncing him in the polls.

Senatorial Race

• The Rockford Register Star comes to the obvious conclusion that Mark Kirk is a moderate, and not a Tea Partier and wonders how it will impact his race.
• Meanwhile, Kirk takes a walk on the foreign policy side of his resume, and talks about how progress in Iraq should be remembered over the costs of that progress.
• But don’t expect him to take a position on the DREAM Act. That wouldn’t be very moderate!
• Meanwhile, the Green Party candidate for Senate wants access to the debates. 
• And the American Crossroads ad against Alexi Giannoulias is on the internet. It’s…quite a watch:

• Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Democrat of IL-9, continues to show her willingness to shill for the administration despite its unpopularity.
• And Democrat Rep. Debbie Halvorson (IL-11) is fighting for dear life against Tea Party Republican Adam Kinzinger. Hey, she could always call him Hitler, because that worked well the other 9,000 times she’s done it.
• Meanwhile, in IL-10, a familiar story is forming, with unions backing Democrat Dan Seals, and retailers uniting behind Republican Bob Dold. Class warfare, anyone?