Roland Burris announcement
Friday, Jul 10, 2009 - Posted by Rich Miller * I have to leave the office, so my kinda former intern Mike Murray will be handling the live blogging duties on this post if he can find a live feed of the announcement. Burris is apparently announcing that he won’t run in the 2010 election at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Help him out in comments if you can. Thanks. Possibilities include…
* 2pm - I still have not found a live news feed of Sen. Burris’s press conference. If anyone has found one just make a comment to let me know so I can live blog it. Either way, I will post something once the presser is over and and stories start to go up on the web… 2:10 pm - USA TODAY is live blogging it all. CNN also has it on live….
* Again, USA TODAY is live blogging the event…
* Sen. Burris is not eligible for Senate pension, from the Trib…
* 2:30pm - For those of you who missed it, I have some video of Burris’s comments about the high cost of political campaigns, and his decision not to run…
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Campaign 2010 roundup
Friday, Jul 10, 2009 - Posted by Rich Miller * Alexi Giannoulias’ fundraising slowed down in the second quarter. That usually happens. The first round of calls is almost always the easiest. Still, he’s raised an impressive amount of dough…
Yikes. * Comptroller Dan Hynes posted a message to his FaceBook page yesterday about the governor’s race…
* No surprise at all. JBT is gearing up for another statewide bid…
* Sen. Kirk Dillard was in southern Illinois touting his campaign yesterday. No slip-ups about Lisa Madigan this time…
A friend pointed out yesterday that Dillard’s Republican opponents screwed up even more than Dillard did this week with his “I look forward to having Lisa Madigan as attorney general when I’m the governor” comment. None of the other GOP gubernatorial candidates had a tracking staffer at the Dillard announcement with a video camera. If they had, that comment could’ve been posted to YouTube before Dillard’s plane landed at the next town. Over. * Related…
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