Thread: IL - Democrats Stumble Toward Senate Primary

December 20, 2009
Democrats Stumble Toward Senate Primary
By JAMES WARREN
Some Chicagoans grouse that President Obama has reneged on promises to return home regularly. Midway through a desultory, prickly United States Senate debate last week, I realized he might need to get back to help save his old seat for Democrats.

It’s almost as though the seat was covered by a secret term-limits restriction. Since 1992 we’ve had Alan J. Dixon, Carol Moseley Braun, Peter G. Fitzgerald, Mr. Obama and now Roland W. Burris, whose mediocrity and conceit helped make his selection by then-Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich so unseemly. Confronting doubts about his candor and fund-raising prospects, Mr. Burris opted not to run for a full term, though he can joyously engrave “U.S. Senator, 2009-2010â€

Rumors have Giannoulias connected to the mob. No proof, just many, many rumors. And he's connected to Obama.

http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2008/ ... orruption/
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“Much in the same way that Obama was groomed for his elections by people in power in Chicago, and much in the same way that Obama supported the corrupt Stroger family even when he could have supported a reform-minded (liberal Democrat) opponent to the Strogers, the Obama-Giannoulias relationship seems one of political payback.â€