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The Leader has a story today about a recent meeting of the 44th Ward Republican Organization and this jumped out at me:
Andy McKenna, the Republican Party’s new chairman was the evening’s headliner. […]McKenna noted that the governor had a $10 million war chest and that this incredible treasure was enough to spook potential candidates from running.
In what sounded like a winning campaign theme, he asked us not to be concerned with the amount in Blago’s warchest but how it got there. Further, the best tag line in memory was “What’s the cost of corruption?â€
As I envisioned that on the side of buses all over Dick Mell’s ward, McKenna began to list the possible costs of corruption along with the governor’s management failures. There are plenty including $2 million in undeliverable flu shots, the membership vacuum in the state’s senior citizens’ drug plan, the state’s financial shenanigans and his dispensing of jobs, jobs, jobs.
I noted in the Capitol Fax this week that if the governor’s two greatest assets - his huge war chest and his repuation as a reformer - could be turned against him his other weaknesses would be much easier to exploit. Apparently, McKenna is on the same wavelength.
posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Feb 10, 05 @ 9:06 am
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