Mark Kirk

When it comes to federal lobbyists, Illinois Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias says that “he won’t take their money and he won’t vote their way.”

Earlier this week, Big Government posed an interesting question that remains unanswered: If Illinois Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias is a dual U.S.-Greek citizen, and lived in Greece for more than a year in the late 1990s, how did he get around Greece’s military service requirement?

Today, Wesley Clark is campaigning for Alexi Giannoulias. Interestingly, though, it is Giannoulias’s opponent in the Illinois Senate race, Republican congressman Mark Kirk, who goes back a long way with the former Army general, Clark. 

In 2000, there was Kailey. Today, there’s Debbie. 

The Illinois Senate race has taken on a new meaning: It's no longer just a regular election -- it's also a special election. What this means is, there will be two elections on the same ballot for the same Senate seat, but for different terms.

The Illinois Senate race has taken on a new meaning: It's no longer just a regular election -- it's also a special election. What this means is, there will be two elections on the same ballot for the same Senate seat, but for different terms.

A few weeks ago, Alexi Giannoulias’s Illinois Senate campaign claimed, “Every proposal outlined by Alexi includes a counter-part offset to ensure that it is deficit neutral.”  But a closer examination of Giannoulias’s economic plan reveals it would increase America’s debt by more than $200 billion. 

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Alexi Giannoulias and money are a bad combination.

The Chicago Tribune ran a positively earth-shaking expose on the front page today, proving that Illinois Republican Senate candidate Mark Kirk does not perfectly recall events that happened over three decades ago.

The campaign of Illinois Republican Senate candidate Mark Kirk responds to recent reports that his Democratic opponent Alexi Giannoulias has embellished his record:

First there was the dishonesty about his failed banking experience, then exaggerations about charitable work at the AG Foundation and now we learn his claim to membership on the board of the Community Bankers Association is not true.  Alexi Giannoulias' already-limited resume has suddenly gotten a lot shorter. This is just another example of Alexi’s pattern of deception. He wasn’t honest about his resume, he wasn’t honest about the loans he made to organized crime figures and he wasn’t honest about the $150 million he lost in Bright Start college savings. Illinois voters cannot trust Alexi Giannoulias.

Rep. Mark Kirk will cosponsor Pete King's "America Stands With Israel Act." The Illinois Republican Senate candidate says in a statement:

Last week, THE WEEKLY STANDARD reported that Illinois Democrat Alexi Giannoulias had embellished his record. Giannoulias claimed on his official website – he is currently the state treasurer of Illinois – to be the founder and chair of the AG Foundation.