[Peace-discuss] Obama's child-killing & the 13th IL CD

[C. G. Estabrook]

A Republican correspondent writes,

"The decision to find a replacement for Tim Johnson is due this  
Saturday May 19th when 14 state GOP chairpeople get together & vote.  
The inside line that I'm hearing is Erika Harold is the odds on  
favorite for several reasons. She was the most prepared candidate at  
the public forums. She is a young African-American woman which pretty  
much overshadows David Gill's entire political base. In a recent radio  
interview, Habeeb Habeeb discounted Kathy Wassink as a viable choice.  
While both men have established connections within the 13th  
Congressional District, I think Erika will win because in this  
election cycle there is a strong anti-incumbent theme. Note the recent  
upset victories by Deb Fischer in Nebraska & Richard Mourdock in  
Indiana."


Wassink is smart and good on her feet, but Harold is the most  
corporate conservative of the four potential candidates - and she'd be  
the hardest for the Democrats to beat.

Given that Landslide David Gill will support Obama's mendacious  
'withdrawal' from Afghanistan and his criminal drone war, that means  
that Congressman Johnson's consistent votes against war in the Mideast  
- and his rather lonely challenge to Obama's wars, from Libya to  
Pakistan - will come to an end in this CD, no matter who wins.

Policy - in this case murder - is once again insulated from politics,  
in an election between a feckless Democrat & a neocon Republican. Tim  
Johnson was a rare and brief exception.

--CGE