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| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Sun-Times |
| News Date | Thursday, January 20, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A non-aggression pact between Democrat William Lipinski and Republican Judy Baar Topinka -- which protected the former congressman and state treasurer from any real electoral opposition -- will not be extended to his son, freshman Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.).
I asked Topinka if she transferred her allegiance from the father to the son.
"I don't know the son at all," said Topinka, in her final days as the chairman of the Illinois Republican Party. "My interest was in his father."
Those should be chilling words for the new lawmaker, recalled by his father to come home from Tennessee and take his seat.
The senior Lipinski, readers of this column remember, installed his son as his successor plotting all the way to make sure Tennessee Dan had no opposition and did not have to campaign.
So all bets are off? I asked.
Said Topinka, "Yes, I think so." |
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