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Pressure tactic to clear Dem primary field falls flat [IL Governor]
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Dec 04, 2005 06:33pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Dec 04, 2005 06:00pm |
| Description | Backfire. Two Blagojevich allies cooked up a plot designed to pressure Edwin Eisendrath not to challenge the governor in the March Democratic primary -- a letter signed by 25 A-list Illinois progressives urging him to stay out of the race.
But the folks solicited to sign -- almost all dwell in the world of state public policy and it would have been hard to decline -- include friends of Eisendrath. Some tipped him off before he got the letter on Friday.
Once the letter started to circulate, "some people called in advance," Eisendrath said. "Some apologized."
Eisendrath said he considers the whole exercise, orchestrated by state Sen. Carol Ronen (D-Chicago) and Democratic donor Leo Smith, a child welfare advocate, "irrelevant." |
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