Former Republican U.S. Senate candidate and state of Maryland resident Alan Keyes will be back in Illinois tomorrow night for the initial meeting of his nascent grassroots organization, Cook County United, which is ostensibly a branch of his Illinois United enterprise.

Tomorrow’s meeting which will take place at the office Keyes has rented in Chicago’s west Loop at 7:00pm tomorrow is invite only and billed as a meeting to bring together “40-50 of the best conservative activists in Cook County.” […]

Many leading conservative activists were not invited either and, further, are not particularly interested in Keyes’ return. And many are privately concerned that Keyes may form an exploratory committee to run for Governor.

UPDATE: Keyes is such a goof. Check this out (thanks to a commenter):

Cook County United is a tri-group effort by the Chicago, Northwest Cook and Sauk-Calumet Groups to bring activists together who are interested in working on environmental issues at the county level. A little less than half – about 12,000 - of the entire membership of the Illinois Chapter of the Sierra Club live in Cook County. We are rich in public lands with 67,000 acres in county control, but are poor when it comes to having enough county-level politicians who care about the environment.

I think the local Sierra Club might object if Alan Keyes, of all people, tries to highjack their name.