Last night, a friend of ours in Florida gave us a call.  We put him on speaker phone.  After, of course, Panda hung up on him twice while trying to activate the speaker phone (“It’s not my fault these buttons are so damn small and close together”).  Welcome to Buzzquarters.  So not the Bat-Cave.

This friend was very active in the Utopia Resistance during the primaries and general election, because he worked at University of Chicago’s hospital, had run-ins with Mrs. Utopia, and had followed Dr. Utopia’s career closely.  He,  like us, had Utopia on the radar since he backstabbed Alice Palmer for the state senate seat in 1996.  Just so you know not everyone here in Chicago drank the hopium-laced Kool-Aid.

Well, since the election, this friend went back to his “real life” (what’s that, we ask), and got out of amateur politics. He swore he wouldn’t get back into the game…but then Alexi Giannoulias won the Democrat primary and became the frontrunner for a United States Senate seat.

“We have to stop this guy.  He’s scum.  He’s a crook, he’s controlled by the mob, and he’s probably the worst human being to come this close to a Senate seat in my lifetime.  We have to stop him.  You have to ask your readers to work hard and stop him.”

People, Giannoulias is REALLY this bad.

He has no morals.

No scruples.

No sense of decency.

He is the spoiled heir to a family fortune built on criminal ties…the kind of guy who watches “The Untouchables” and laughs his head-off when Capone uses the baseball bat during the dinner party scene.

In  many ways, he’s actually worse than Dr. Utopia himself.  At least Utopia went through the motions of cloaking himself in mystery to gain access to high office.  Giannoulias just lets everything hang out in the open…so smug, he thinks his mob connections are no big deal.

That he is, in fact, untouchable.

We need some great Giannoulias photoshop work, people, to start the anti-Alexi campaign rolling.  Our niche is making sure every man, woman, and child in Illinois knows exactly who Giannoulias is, why he should not be in the Senate, and how he is connected to Tony Rezko, the Illinois crime families, and Dr. Utopia himself.

Democrats are in a real bind here.

The more Giannoulias is connected to the president, the more the unsavory Illinois connections they both share make news.  This is the stuff the MSM didn’t want to report on in 2008, because it hurts Utopia.  But, now that Giannoulias is a candidate for national office, and so much attention is being focused on this race, it’s time to bring everything about Rezko and Chicago corruption back into the headlines again (or, in this case, for the first time ever).

Democrats need to save this Senate seat.  Dr. Utopia needs to come to Illinois to campaign for Giannoulias to save his old seat.  But, if he comes and campaigns, we think it will hurt Giannoulias and Utopia both.

And, as our friend in Florida encouraged us, we need to do everything we can to bring Giannoulias down.

Who knows who he will take with him.

What art can you make to help?