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Our Sen. Kennedy?
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Sunday, December 14, 2008
Author: Michael Sneed, The Chicago Sun-Times
Tipsville . . .

Is Chris Kennedy , the son of the late, great U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, a possible entrant on the list to fill President elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat?

- To wit: Sneed hears Kennedy's name has been wafted into the inner circle of Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn, who would be the guy who chooses Obama’s replacement if Gov. Blagojevich resigns.

- Quoth Dem politico Jay Doherty , a Kennedy confidant: “It would give Pat Quinn the answer to the puzzle before him if he becomes governor.”

- The upshot: Word is Kennedy, who is also the nephew of Sen. Ted Kennedy, a major Obama supporter, is likely to accept if asked.

- Hmmm: Wouldn't that be something: An offspring of the legendary Kennedy line as a senator from Illinois? Stay tuned.

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http://www.tomroeser.com/blogview.asp?blogID=24863

The question WHO is unasked…either because the media are too much in the tank or are too intellectually slow to perceive. Again: WHO DO THE LEADERS…PRESUMABLY DALEY AND MADIGAN…PREFER ULTIMATELY AS THE NEXT SENATOR? Lisa Madigan? Maybe but maybe not. There is every reason to suppose that she and her poppa want her to be governor which is a far better position for future eminence. My good friend and City Club President Jay Doherty proposed Chris Kennedy earlier, the son of Bobby Kennedy and the highly regarded manager of the Merchandise Mart. The sudden burst of publicity for Caroline Kennedy in New York would argue that, paired with Chris and old Teddy, it would be more than a surfeit of Kennedys in the Senate. But Caroline seems to have nearly self-destructed.

The question continues: who do the ruling Illinois Dem leaders prefer for the next governor, Pat Quinn to name? Frankly (this is a personal view) as I know Chris Kennedy I don’t think from a purely liberal Democratic perspective it would be too bad (although we would agree on virtually nothing). But I suspect there is someone else in the wings-not Chris Kennedy, not Lisa-but someone else. WHO? That must explain why the furor over Rolland Burris, a very average man but certainly not the empty suit some anti-Blago Dems and their media camp-followers maintain.

http://www.publicity.org/roundtable_6_03.htm

Jay Doherty, head of the Haymarket Group and president of Chicago’s City Club;

http://www.haymarket.net/default.aspx?pageid=11&playmovie=no&bhcp=1

Elected Officials

Haymarket provides political and governmental support to elected officials at every level of government - city, county, state and federal. Haymarket’s political client history includes:

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# Chicago Finance Committee Chairman Edward Burke Cook County States Attorney Dick Devine
# llinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Fitzgerald
# Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke
# Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin
# County Commissioner Mike Quigley
# Secretary of State Jesse White
# Senator Carol Moseley Braun
# Congressman Luis Gutierrez
# Congressman Danny Davis
# Congressman Patrick Kennedy
# Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
# Senator Edward Kennedy

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Tireless president has City Club riding high after 100 years - Jay Doherty has boosted club membership to more than 1,000 for the first time since 1954.
Chicago Sun-Times - Friday, September 26, 2003
Author: Steve Neal

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Doherty, a liberal Democrat, was the chief fund-raiser for the late Mayor Harold Washington and has close ties to the Kennedy family. Doherty is president of the Haymarket Group, a public affairs consulting firm, whose chairman is former Washington adviser Thomas P. Coffey.

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After college, Doherty got his first political job as advance man and traveling aide to 1976 Democratic presidential hopeful Sergeant Shriver. It was through this campaign that Doherty began his long association with the Kennedy family. After the Shriver campaign, Doherty was hired as director of communications for the Kennedy -owned Merchandise Mart.

In 1980, Doherty pitched in to help Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ‘s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. For the last two decades, he has coordinated Kennedy’s Midwestern fund-raising. He has also organized events for the senator’s son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), and for former Rep. Joseph Kennedy (D-Mass.) and his sister, former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.

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Anne Burke is the wife of alderman Burke See below:

BY TIM NOVAK Staff Reporter

With the Daley administration pointing the finger at Ald. Edward M. Burke for the extraordinary rate of injury claims filed by patronage workers, Burke fired back Friday, saying his staff has “done the best that it can” to prevent abuse and fraud.
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Burke’s comments came amid a Chicago Sun-Times investigation that has found:

• • One in five patronage workers named on a secret clout list kept by Mayor Daley’s then-patronage director filed workers compensation claims, an injury rate far greater than any occupation tracked by the federal Labor Department. Those claims have cost taxpayers more than $38 million.

• • Half of those patronage workers filed at least two injury claims, with a few filing a dozen or more.

• • An estimated 91 workers have been cleared to return to work but are sitting at home, collecting disability checks — sometimes more than $40,000 a year — waiting for the city to find them a less physically demanding job. Many have political connections.
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As part of those written questions, the Sun-Times asked Burke’s staff to discuss any investigations they conducted to determine if the employees were really hurt, why employees remain on paid disability leave for years while their cases languish, and to identify the law firms Burke has hired to defend the city.

Burke’s committee settles most workers compensation cases with the employees and their attorneys, presenting the settlements to the Illinois Workers Compensation Commission for approval. The Finance Committee has overseen workers compensation claims since 1913.

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/105538,CST-NWS-disabled21.article