[Peace-discuss] It's clear it'll be a back-room deal...

[ewj at pigsqq.org]

If Pat Brady said the sun will come up tomorrow, 
you'd better go out and buy flashlight batteries.




>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: C. G. Estabrook <CGE at shout.net>
>  To: Peace Discuss <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>  Subject: [Peace-discuss] It's clear it'll be a back-room deal...
>  Sent: Apr 05 '12 09:29
>  
>  “The successor for that spot will be chosen in an open, fair and
>  transparent process pursuant to our rules and the Election Code,” Brady
>  said. “I’m going to start working on that immediately...”
>  
>  
>  STATE GOP LEADER: JOHNSON WON\'T RUN AGAIN, PARTY TO SEEK REPLACEMENT
>  
>  
>  By BERNARD SCHOENBURG ([LINK: mailto:bernard.schoenburg at sj-r.com]
>  bernard.schoenburg at sj-r.com)
>  
>  The State Journal-Register
>  Posted Apr 04, 2012 @ 06:59 PM
>  
>  
>  U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson, R-Urbana, is apparently poised to remove himself
>  from the November ballot, which would allow GOP leaders to name a candidate
>  to replace him.
>  
>  
>  “I can confirm it,” Pat Brady, chairman of the Illinois GOP, told The
>  State Journal-Register. “Everybody’s told me it’s true.”
>  
>  “The successor for that spot will be chosen in an open, fair and
>  transparent process pursuant to our rules and the Election Code,” Brady
>  said. “I’m going to start working on that immediately.”
>  
>  The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette reported this afternoon that Johnson has
>  scheduled a 3 p.m. news conference in Urbana Thursday, where he is expected
>  to announce he is leaving Congress after completion of his current term.
>  
>  Johnson, a member of Congress since 2001, on March 20 breezed to victory in
>  a three-way GOP primary in the new 13th Congressional District, which
>  includes much of Springfield.
>  
>  The Democratic contest in that district was much closer, with Election Day
>  returns showing a 143-vote advantage for David Gill, a Bloomington
>  emergency room doctor who has run against Johnson three times before, over
>  Greene County State’s Attorney Matt Goetten.
>  
>  Michael Richards, spokesman for Gill, said today that late-arriving
>  absentee ballots in the district have added to that lead, which Richards
>  now put at 173.
>  
>  Richards had only heard news reports of the possibility that Johnson would
>  drop off the November ballot after winning the primary.
>  
>  If that is the case, Richards said, “It’s certainly undemocratic of the
>  Republican Party to take the choice of the candidate away from the voters.
>  … If  Tim Johnson thought maybe he didn’t want to serve another term,
>  he shouldn’t have run.”
>  _[LINK:
>  http://www.sj-r.com/breaking/x826300048/State-GOP-leader-Johnson-wont-run-again-party-to-seek-replacement]
>  http://www.sj-r.com/breaking/x826300048/State-GOP-leader-Johnson-wont-run-again-party-to-seek-replacement_
>  
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