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Andrzejewski rides Tea Party push
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| Contributor | Eddie |
| Last Edited | Eddie Feb 01, 2010 05:54pm |
| Category | Analysis |
| News Date | Feb 01, 2010 03:15pm |
| Description | Illinois gubernatorial candidate Adam Andrzejewski is betting that his early attention to the Tea Party movement will pay off when voters go to the polls Tuesday to select a Republican nominee for governor.
Andrzejewski has not gotten the same attention from the conservative grassroots that New York congressional candidate Doug Hoffman or Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio has received. But the possibility of a late surge in a tight race has attracted the interest of national conservatives that found him appealing from the get-go.
Andrzejewski told POLITICO on Monday that he has been trying to court Tea Party supporters since speaking at a tax day rally on April 15.
“I spoke for 15 minutes at that rally and that gave my campaign early momentum,” he said in a phone interview. “I recruited precinct committeemen, built my emails list and signed up donors and that gave my campaign a tremendous boost.”
“I invested in and built the grassroots around my campaign in synergy with the tea party movement,” he added. “The tea party recognizes that I am the one outsider running against insiders.”
A Public Policy Polling survey last week showed Andrzejewski trailing state Sen. Kirk Dillard, a leading candidate in the wide GOP field, by 8 percentage points. But Andrzejewski’s campaign has been touting an internal poll that was circulated Sunday, showing him down by only two points.
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His campaign also attracted the endorsement of Lech Walesa, the former president of Poland, who remains popular in the Chicagoland area.
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