Posted on 11/02/2009 12:58:05 PM PST by MinnesotaLibertarian
Former Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan, who lost to Democrat Rod Blagojevich in the 2002 governor's race, will be attempting a political comeback by filing petitions to seek next year's Republican governor nomination, aides said Sunday. Ryan's camp will file petitions Monday to appear on the Feb. 2 Republican primary ballot, aides said. That's the last day to do so. Ryan hasn't said anything publicly about his potential candidacy. A news conference is scheduled for Tuesday in Springfield. Ryan lost to the now-disgraced Blagojevich 52 percent to 45 percent in an open-seat contest -- the result of an election in which the GOP was hounded by the scandals surrounding the occupant of the governor's mansion at the time, Republican George Ryan. The Ryans were not related, but the attorney general's name didn't help. For most of the time since leaving state government, the former two-term attorney general has been a lecturer at Benedictine University in Lisle.
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Phil is running for the open seat Beth Coulson who is running for Kirk’s house seat. The guy favored by the Tom Cross and the party brass is some dude named Hamilton Chang. Billyboy told me Chang is a RINO. All I know about him is is he’s a rich banker (great name for a rich guy) who was born in Taiwan.
The rats will be heavily targeting the seat with candidate Daniel Bliss who lost by 3 points to Coulson last year.
Having said that he is damaged and will need to survive the attack regarding all his baggage.
However he also brings baggage that is to his credit side -- several personal tragedies. He has battled cancer; his wife, Marie, nearly died of a heart attack; and the couple lost a daughter to brain cancer and a son who took his own life.
He is conservative, articulate, intelligent, and attractive. But there is a lot of baggage, and a lot of drama there.
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