Elect Raley - US Congress

10/31/2025

Let's gooooooo!

10/31/2025

October 30, 1978

10/30/2025

Stardate 103025. Captain’s log. Took a road trip today to support Ismael, a family man and decades-long member of the Staunton community, who was taken by ICE yesterday, with no explanation. Senator Dick Durbin and Representative Nikki Budzinski are working to get answers.

I can’t be here Sunday for the rally, but I hope many of you turn out. I wanted to show my support, so we decided to have a meal at Ismael’s restaurant, Caldera Bar and Grill, on Main Street in Staunton.

I can confirm the service and food are exceptional. I was glad to see many other tables with customers. Please do what you can to support this man, his family, and his employees.

10/30/2025

I would love to be there.

I will be in Homer Illinois meeting and greeting friends in the district who would like a bit of normalcy returning in their lives.

Apparently, Ismael is a well regarded, well loved and (per people who know him) legal member of the Staunton community who operated a home town, home style Mexican restaurant for decades. Someone from the town had to have turned him in. I hope that person is happy.
This is not my America, home of the brave and land of the free. I find it very hard to pledge my allegiance to this.
I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis and how scared my parents were.
This is worse.

Representative Miller is the head cheerleader. I'm sure she wants more moms, dads and grandmothers tossed too. She condones the zip tying of kids and the flagrant dismissal of our Constitution. I wonder what she gains out of all this. Probably some hidden stock somewhere. How about more arrests of criminals and less of law abiding citizens who have made a difference and contributed to the community good?

Christians don't condone the tear gassing of kids on their way to a Halloween party.
Let's work together and show Representative Miller the door.

She doesn't represent me.
Does she represent you?

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10/29/2025

Hey kids...
Now you can be the first on your block to be the first on your block... straight from the fashion shows in France, it's the design that's taking the world by storm!

It's the "Raley Rally T."

Make a fashion statement, astound your friends, slay your enemies, show the world...um...uh...you're aligned with truth, justice and the American way, yeah...that's the ticket.

They are selling like hotcakes...which always confused me.
1. What's a hotcake?
2. Who has the knowledge on how much they are selling?

Now available for purchase. $40. Cheap.
Union made.
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(professional catalog pose provided by me)

In my best radio voice..."get yours TODAY!!!"

10/29/2025

Through out my life, it's been baseball.
It's always been my favorite sport and that crosses generational lines.
My mother was a baseball fan, her dad and his dad.

I tried playing it once, unfortunately, I am painfully slow.
Which also ruined my basketball stardom.
I come from a DNA infused line of St. Louis Cardinal fans. My family grew up dirt poor in Southern Missouri, so summer nights with baseball on the radio along with Moon Pies and RC Colas were great mindless entertainment and wonderful memories.

Moving to Kansas City, I became a huge Royals fan. At that time 79-85, they were a great baseball team and a very exciting team to watch.

I say this because this has been a great World Series.
In the past couple of years, it seems here in St. Louis at least, the playoffs are a long way away.

The Dodgers were supposed to steamroll The Blue Jays and most folks thought it was a sweep.
While Ohtani is the best player ever, baseball is much more of a team game. So, we're at 2-2, it's now a best of three with two games in Toronto.
How cool would a game 7 be?

For further amusement, Trump hates LA and really hates Canada.
That's a win.

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10/29/2025

Let's play Jeopardy!

Here's your answer $742,193.55.

The question in the comments

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10/29/2025

Trump (and Mary's) America....your company lays off 14,000 people while you spend millions grifting and selling out your name with the "Trump Ballroom."

Meanwhile, there is a $5.6 billion fund for emergency fund for SNAP. Republicans are refusing to release the funds.

Robber Barons 2.0

10/29/2025

Here is a list of some Illinois Food Pantries accepting donations at this time...

From the U of I Extension office

https://extension.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/ccdmsunit19foodpantries.pdf

10/29/2025

If you've ever dealt with someone who has dementia, you know the telltale signs and learn to recognize them in others.

Donald Trump is slipping into dementia. His boast to AOC about identifying animals is a dementia test. His word salad speeches (what's the deal with magnets?), the rambling, incoherent answers to questions, the sad case of him dancing and then just wondering off in Japan, shattering protocol and basically embarrassing the United States on a global stage are signs he's not all there.

As the band War said many years ago...he's "slipping into darkness." In cahoots with all of this is the "liberal" media who does not report this with the same gusto they did when Joe Biden would have a "senior moment." If anyone says anything anymore about the "liberal media" tell them to shove it where the sun don't shine, as they helped elect him not once, but twice and now are cowering under to a senile old man.
See: CBS' Face the Nation where the formerly great interviewer Margaret Brennan accused Hakeen Jeffries of causing the shutdown and continuing it. CBS is now in the camp of all things Trump.

If we can flip one district at a time, we can right the ship, stop this madness and impeach everyone of these Steven Miller's for gleefully taking away our democracy.

I'm in this to win this. I believe Representative Miller is vulnerable, due to her abandonment and willful destruction of the 15th district. She's stiffed Republicans and Democrats alike.
Talk to your neighbors, ask them if this is what they voted for.

We can and must do better.

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10/28/2025

Macomb Food Pantries

10/27/2025

Stuff is getting real.
This belongs to a friend of mine's daughter.

$121 more a month she can't spend on groceries, fuel, etc.

Even if she needed SNAP, she won't get it.

When does complacency turn into anger?

Are we truly a Xanax nation?

Wake up! Rise Up! Stand Up!