Tag Archives: Mark Kirk

Kirk, Giannoulias Misstate Facts in Debate

Posted on October 13, 2010

The Illinois Senate candidates strayed from the facts on Sunday’s "Meet the Press," which featured a debate between Republican Mark Kirk, a House member, and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias, the state treasurer. Bridge Claims Go Nowhere Kirk exaggerated his role in combating the "bridge to nowhere," a name given interchangeably to …
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Sunday Replay

Posted on October 11, 2010

Pity the poor politicians and spinmeisters who had to don suits in the middle of a long weekend and populate the talk shows. They were up to their usual tricks, though: One Republican operative wrongly implied a crime by the White House; several guests talked about the debt or deficit …
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Loans to Mobsters, Ties to BP? Kirk’s Attack Ads Go Too Far

Posted on July 9, 2010

Republican Rep. Mark Kirk is attacking his Democratic opponent in the Illinois race for the U.S. Senate with two ads that go beyond what the facts support. The ads make unsupported claims about the role Giannoulias played at his family’s troubled bank and strain  to tie him to BP, among …
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