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7 comments July 11th, 2008
A Friday quiz for all you media aficionados, desperadoes and Olds Toronadoes:
What was the first audio (sound) trademark registered by the U.S. Patent Office? Hint: It dates from 1931, and you can still hear it today.
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The gambling expansion bill failed Wednesday, 47-55, fewer votes than it got in May, notes Steve Brown, House Speaker Mike Madigan’s press guy. (The bill needed 71 to pass, a supermajority.)
Gov. Blago wanted the gambling bill to fund his $34 billion capital plan. Brown also wanted to let me know that Rep. Bob Pritchard, a Hinckley Republican who was among lawmakers who called for passage of the capital bill at a raucous Rockford news conference and Bash Madigan affair a few weeks ago, voted against the gambling expansion needed to fund the capital plan.
“Bus Ride Bob was a no vote,” said Brown. The bus reference refers to a Pritchard pronouncement at the Rockford presser. Pritchard suggested that advocates of the capital bill get on buses and campaign for the plan in Madigan’s Chicago district in an effort to pressure the Speaker.
Madigan does not support the gambling plan advanced by Blagojevich, noting that Chicago, where a new casino was slated to go, did not support the gov’s plan.
Ever since that Rockford event, Brown has labeled Pritchard “Bus Ride Bob.”
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Capitol Fax reports the latest Rasmussen Poll, which says Gov. Rod Baloneyvich is the nation’s least popular governor, with a dismal 13 percent OK rating.
The poll also shows Sen. Dick Durbin crusing far ahead of Republican opponent, Dr. Steve whatzishame, and Barack Obama is well ahead of John McCain.
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