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GOP rookies set sights on Durbin 1/9/2008 By Jim Jaworski News Sun Three Republican candidates are vying to challenge incumbent Dick Durbin for his seat in the U.S. Senate. While Durbin has name recognition, campaign funds and political power, the GOP hopefuls want to energize the party to take the primary Feb. 5 and upset the second-ranked Democrat in Congress. Steve Sauerberg Sauerberg, who has never run for political office, has positioned himself as the front-runner by securing key endorsements from top Illinois GOP officials, including Illinois Republican Chairman Andy McKenna and Republican County Chairmen's Association President Randy Pollard. Sauerberg,...

War divides Republican Senate hopefuls By John Patterson | Daily Herald Staff SPRINGFIELD -- None of the three candidates vying for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination want to set a specific timetable for getting troops out of Iraq, but they differ on whether the war ever should have started or has been successful. Neither Steve Sauerberg, a Willowbrook physician, nor Andy Martin, a Chicago Internet writer and lawyer, said he would have voted to send troops to Iraq. "Knowing what we know now -- that Saddam Hussein did not have significant stockpiles of WMDs -- I would not have voted...

WND: How would you like to direct the campaign? Cox: I have a lot of things to say, and I have a record of business success as a chief executive. I've been very involved in my community. I've been very involved in the Republican Party, and I didn't seek to be included in these debates by the major networks without doing some work myself. I started 18 months ago, traveling all throughout every single county in Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire, speaking to Republican groups, visiting small towns, talking to Rotary and Kiwanis and all these other kinds of...

Here is an op-ed, by John Cox, a conservative republican presidential candidate, about his not being covered by many reporters. In the Texas Straw Poll, in Sept., he received more votes than Sen. McCain, Sen. Brownback, and Rep. Tancredo. His website is www.cox2008.com. Phil Collins News item: Paris Hilton announces for President and NBC invites her to next debate of presidential candidates. Is this what we want for the selection of our political leadership? The President of the United States is the most important post not only in our country, but the world. The leadership of the world's largest economy,...

John Cox: Hardest Working Presidential Candidate You've Never Heard Of By - Beth LaMontagne AddThis Social Bookmark Button (August 23, 2007) Chicago businessman John Cox is the hardest working presidential candidate you've never heard of. This past weekend, Cox attended six events around the state, from the Candia Old Home Day parade to the air show in Portsmouth. He was at barbeques, Greek Festivals and the only presidential candidate to attend Manchester's Latino Festival. Although Cox has a New Hampshire campaign office on Elm Street and a state field coordinator, he has gotten little to no media coverage and has...

Want Reagan? Try John Cox Republican voters dissatisfied with the current crop of Reagan wannabes ought to check out the only GOP candidate barred from this week's South Carolina debate hosted by Fox: John Cox. That's because while the other candidates used the first debate to claim they were closest to Reagan, Cox tells us he's the real McCoy. "Ronald Reagan was from Illinois, and I'm from Illinois, too." And it doesn't end there: Cox, a lawyer-businessman who was also chairman of the Cook County Republicans, hates taxes and wants major reform and elimination of the IRS. "I'm a manager,"...

THURSDAY NEWS UPDATE. ARIZONA: NRCC BACKS GOP CENTRIST IN OPEN CD-8 PRIMARY. Retiring eleven-term Congressman Jim Kolbe (R) is strongly supporting State Representative Steve Huffman as his successor -- and now Kolbe has some powerful allies in his vocal efforts to derail the candidacy of former State Representative Randy Graf. The National Republican Congressional Committee spent $122,292 to purchase TV time for a spot in support of Huffman scheduled to start airing later this week, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal also reported the individual leadership PACs of House Speaker Dennis Hastert, House Majority Leader John Boehner and...

A Very Dark Horse June 18th, 2006 With the 2008 presidential primaries well over a year away, John Cox of Illinois is already striding the landscapes of New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina in an effort to generate attention and support for his campaign for the White House. He wants to bring Reagan Republicanism back to the party. Cox has also recently published a book outlining his thoughts on out-of-control career politicians and explaining his own philosophy of progressive conservatism. John who? John Cox is a 50-year old Chicago businessman, tax attorney and accountant who thinks the time is now...

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