I wrote recently that nobody would be able to attend the inaugural meeting of Pat Quinn's Illinois Reform Commission. Happily, I was wrong; activist Hugh Devlin attended, and even managed to get copies of Government Data and the Invisible Hand into the hands of the commissioners.
Tom Geoghegan's campaign has been picking up speed with volunteers now making calls daily from the campaign office at 4419 W. Irving Park — the opening of which can be seen on Youtube, where my highly-cultivated camera-avoidance skills momentarily failed me. He's picked up endorsements from The Nation and Students for a New American Politics and picked up, I suspect, more than a few new supporters at yesterday's candidate forum put on by the IVI-IPO. The campaign has been scaling up its field operation at an impressive pace but continues to need all the volunteers it can get — so please get in touch or just stop by the campaign office between 10 am and 8 pm if you can help. Candidates this good are too rare to sit this one out.