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Second Place Blues: Oberweis and Keyes
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Aug 12, 2004 01:57pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, August 12, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Second Place Blues: Oberweis and Keyes
Kane County Chronicle
As you all are very aware, the Illinois Republican party chose Alan Keyes of Maryland to be their candidate for U.S. senator. What you might not know is who is responsible for this bizarre move, and who is not.
First of all, the people who made the selection are members of the state central committee, which does not include any of our local Republican officeholders. Of that group, Kane County was represented by Denny Wiggins, and he supported Aurora dairyman Jim Oberweis. Wiggins' logic was simple: Oberweis finished second to Jack Ryan in the Republican primary and fairness said he should get the nod. Sounds logical enough, but logic and fairness didn't carry the day.
The problem is Jim Oberweis is disliked by many in the party's hierarchy and they wanted no part of an Oberweis senate campaign. To be fair, Oberweis rubs a lot of people the wrong way, and his strident anti-illegal immigration ads during the primary campaign didn't win him any fans in the upper ranks of the Republican Party. |
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