Will next Illinois guv be a squeezeboxer?

The GOP is running a "cigarette-smoking, accordion-playing ex-newspaper reporter who called her primary opponents 'morons,'" according to Bloomberg.com.

Judy Baar Topinka, the Republican rip-snorter in question, is currently the state treasurer. The Bloomberg article describes her as a fiscal conservative and social moderate, and sources call her a "flamboyant" candidate loaded with "self-deprecating humor."

"We're going to restore honesty to this government," including "making sure that we live within our means," said Topinka, who grew up in a Czech immigrant family in Berwyn (home of one of TDA's all-time favorite clubs, FitzGerald's. "That rooster done crowed, but this hen's going to deliver."

A politician who plays squeezebox and tells fart jokes? Sounds like our kinda lady. We already love Illinois (and the Windy City in particular) -- if Topinka gets elected, we might have to consider a cross-country move.