Posted on 07/31/2004 8:35:15 AM PDT by LandOfLincolnGOP
Edited on 07/31/2004 9:00:30 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Cook County commissioner tops GOP list
Party eyes mother of 3 for Senate run
By John Chase and Mickey Ciokajlo, Tribune staff reporters. Tribune staff reporter Liam Ford contributed to this report
Published July 31, 2004
Cook County Commissioner Elizabeth Doody Gorman has shot to the top of the list of candidates to replace Jack Ryan as the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, according to several Republican officials.
As the Republican State Central Committee gets ready to gather Tuesday and possibly select a replacement for Ryan, who officially took his name off the ballot Thursday, several influential Republicans are pushing Gorman as the party's best choice to beat Democratic nominee Barack Obama.
"Most of the calls and activity directed toward me as a member of the Central Committee have centered on Liz Gorman over the last few days," said state Sen. Kirk Dillard (R-Hinsdale), one of the 19 members who will select Ryan's replacement. "When all things are near-equal, I always lean toward the woman candidates."
Gorman, 39, of Orland Park joined the GOP after spending the 1980s voting for Democrats. She has caught the attention of state Republicans because, as a mother of three, she would have greater political latitude than a white male to attack Obama, an African-American, party leaders said.
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Doody?
ROFLMAO...my thoughts exactly....lose the middle name!!!!
"When all things are near-equal, I always lean toward the woman candidates."
Sacrificial lamb. With Iron Mike, maybe half a chance.
Nominate Barack Obama on the Republican ticket as well as the Democrat ticket. Then claim his loyalties. It is not like the fact that Obama is something of a liberal should be any obstacle. After all, Charles Percy once represented Illinois in the Senate.
It might have been worse. The venomous spouse of the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001" could have returned to Illinois to insert Herself into the Senate in 2000, rather than go to New York. Dick Durbin would have stood aside and resigned his seat if Herself had asked.
The Illinois GOP had a primary and Jim Oberweis finished second. By all rights, he should get it.
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