Note to Word on the Street’s Karen McDonald and her editor: The word is spelled aisle (a passage between rows of seats), not isle (short for “island”). The wrong word was used not once, but twice in the short article about candidate Colleen Callahan’s appeal to those on the other side of the aisle.
The kid who came in second in Saturday’s spelling bee wrote a comment in the comment’s section after the article on the spelling bee, correcting a word – considerably harder to spell than aisle -that the PJStar had mispelled.
This is what happens when people rely too heavily on their spell checker.
Raised in the US school system.
The same people always use “your” instead of “you’re”, especially in pronunciation.
I think the implication is that Ms. Callahan is on a very, very small political “isle.” And I think it’s very, very true.
I will make a guess that there is only a handful of democrat officials in the Peoria County or 18th dist for that matter that even knew Ms Callahan was a democrat. If she was well known in the party structure then why did they not recruit her years ago when lackluster candidates were thrown under the politcal bus?
Well PC, because like she said in the article, she thought LaHood was doing an okay job. And if the dems had a reasonably good candidate why would they throw them at an entrenched incumbent like LaHood was? That wouldn’t make much sense.
You’ve got to remove yourself from the mindset that public service is a callling, because its not for these people. Most of our officials today, state legislature and above, see it as just another career.
Statistics of 18th Dist 1994-2004
1994 Lahood 119,838 Stephens 78,332
1996 Lahood 143,100 Curran 98,413
1998 Lahood 158,196 no opponent
2000 Lahood 173,706 Harrant 85,317
2002 Lahood 192,567 no opponent
2004 Lahood 216,097 Waterworth 91,548
In 1994 no incumbent running Democrats loses by 42k , 1996 first reelection generally most vulnerable for incumbent Democrat loses by 44k. 1998 opening for a good Democrat candidate- oops! no body picked up the banner. 2000 big year in Illinois for Democrats and National Democrat candidates Democrat loses to La hood by 88k votes – maybe a good democrat candidate should have entered the race. 2002 no good candidate stepped up to the plate because Lahood was doing okay. 2004 Lahood wins by 124k, incumbency is really kicking in by now. 2006 another opportunity for a good candidate – oops rerun of 2004
My personal pet peeve is past/passed. Oh, and the prevalence of unnecessary ” ‘ ” whenever a word ends in s. (For example:
“I have a lot of cat’s.”)
Cat’s whats?
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