[Peace-discuss] entertaining pre-announcement bets / what are Tim Johnson's plans?

[Karen Medina]

> *State GOP leader: Johnson won't run again, party to seek replacement*
I am entertaining pre-formal-announcement bets as to what Tim Johnson will
say...
Personally, I think Ron Paul has asked Tim Johnson to run as his Vice
President.

-karen medina
p.s.
> “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...”
Transparent my foot. TJ would have backed out a month ago if it were going
to be transparent.
(imho)


On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:29 PM, C. G. Estabrook <CGE at shout.net> wrote:

> “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 (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.”
> *
> http://www.sj-r.com/breaking/x826300048/State-GOP-leader-Johnson-wont-run-again-party-to-seek-replacement
> *
>
>
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