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Dan Proft
Dan Proft, a principal of Urquhart Media, LLC, has run political campaigns and served in various capacities in state and local government for the past 13 years.
Since February 2007, Proft has been the featured political commentator on the Don Wade & Roma Morning Show on WLS-AM 890, the number one news talk radio station in Chicago, where he provides a weekly commentary. His commentaries also appear regularly in Human Events (HumanEvents.com), the nation's leading journal of conservative thought since 1944.
In April 2008, Proft was added as a featured columnist for School Reform News, a national newspaper published by the Chicago-based Heartland Institute.
Additionally, Proft is a frequent guest on Illinois radio and television public affairs shows. Proft is also a regular panelist at workshops and conferences on media, politics, and foreign affairs.
Among his civic pursuits, Proft serves as a Board member for the Illinois chapter of Operation Homefront, a non-profit whose mission is to provide assistance to military families, particularly those with a spouse serving overseas. He also serves on the Associate Board of The Cradle, an Evanston-based adoption agency.
Proft is a 1994 graduate (B.A.) of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He earned his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1992, while at Northwestern, Proft helped found an independent weekly campus paper, the Northwestern Chronicle, which continues to publish to this day.
Proft, a practicing Catholic, grew up in west suburban Wheaton, Illinois.
An avid sports fan, Proft coaches youth basketball in Cicero and Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.
dan@urqmedia.com
Dan Proft's Commentaries
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 Why Republicans in Illinois Lose, Reason No. 64,112
Monday, July 14, 2008 - By Dan Proft
Reason Number 64,112 as to why Republicans in Illinois lose: opposition to their own party platform.
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Firing Back at King Richard (in Self-Defense)
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 - By Dan Proft
- Don Wade & Roma Morning Show - WLS 890-AM
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has chosen to make the gun issue personal. Okay, I'll bite.
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Madigan's Memo Signals Gathering Storm
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
I had erroneously conjured Madigan into some sort of calculating, Hobbesian tactician interested in publicly disemboweling the Governor, when it turns out he's just a wonkish law librarian. You can imagine my embarrassment.
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ILGOP: The Party of Schadenfreude?
Friday, June 06, 2008 - By Dan Proft
On the opening day of the Illinois Republican Party's quadrennial state convention in Decatur, please standby for this special message for Illinois Republicans: Hoping your political opponents get indicted is not an electoral strategy.
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Obama to Trinity: It's Not You, It's Me
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Monday, June 02, 2008 - By Dan Proft
- Don Wade & Roma Morning Show - WLS 890-AM
Maybe it is because I have so often been on the receiving end of "The Talk" that I am compelled to say, Trinity United Church of Christ deserved better, Senator Obama.
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