Catastrophic Success

This referral is more intriguing than the one I got from the Ministry of Information, People’s Republic of China!

So I have posted about Kathy Salvi twice in the last week. I hope this isn’t becoming an obsession!

At any rate, I noticed this in my referral logs:

I find it very interesting that someone on Capitol Hill is trawling through Google looking for information on Ms. Salvi. Rep. Melissa Bean (D-Ill.) or one of her staffers perhaps? How weird that they hit upon my lowly little blog, especially considering the fact that the first post that mentions Ms. Salvi has a large phallic building covered in a pink condom in it. I hope they found what they are looking for.

My blog is on page 7 of the results for the search, by the way, so they were really searching. By that page there are only 4 sites, including mine, that refer to this Kathy Salvi. Let’s take a look shall we?

Around The Arena 10_05 This is a stable newsletter with updates on a whole bunch of people. It’s also where I first encountered the name of her husband, Al Salvi

Americans for Tax Reform Here I see she signed the The Taxpayer Protection Pledge, as did a gentleman named Al Salvi. Confused why her husband would run against her, I found that according to Capitol Fax, Al Salvi was going to run for that seat, but decided not to, and now his wife is running instead. That must have been a very interesting conversation

Al: “You know, hon, I’m not going to run for Congress after all.”
Kathy: “That’s ok, honey, it’s probably for the best you stay retired from public life. … By the way, Al, apropos of nothing, I’ve been doing some thinking …”

Which leaves only s link from FindArticles.com which links to a list of articles from September 14th, including this article by Scott Fornek of the Chicago Sun-Times. According to this article, Ms. Salvi has three opponents for the Republican candidacy in the race, one of whom has Former US Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-Ill.), a man I respect very much.

In all, I am intrigued by Ms. Salvi’s story and am very open to the idea of her candidacy, pending investigation of her opponents (as named in the aforementioned article):

former investment banker Dave McSweeney, Mundelein businesswoman Teresa Bartels and Wauconda lawyer Aaron Lincoln.

Lincoln’s an awfully important name in Illinois. He’s not a direct descendant biologically, but if he fits the bill as Abraham’s great-great-grandson politically, I’m all for it.

Even though the front of Ms. Salvi’s campaign flier (from her official campaign, by the way) is ridiculous in the extreme, it had the intended effect of making me talk about her and think about her, didn’t it? In fact, I really hadn’t paid any attention to this race to this point, and didn’t even know who her opponents were until this little exercise.

This should be an interesting race.

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