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[IL Rep] Emanuel: A Two-Termer?
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| News Date | Monday, October 24, 2005 07:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
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By Erin P. Billings
Roll Call Staff
October 24, 2005
Almost a year into the job, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.) is winning more than solid reviews for his oversight of the minority party’s efforts to retake the House in 2006.
But some observers are beginning to wonder whether Emanuel will be willing to take on another two-year cycle at the helm of the DCCC, which by all accounts is an exhausting, all-consuming position within the Democratic leadership. Emanuel has not made his plans public, but sources say his decision to stay on through 2008 rests largely on the outcome of next November’s election.
Emanuel’s spokesman at the DCCC, Bill Burton, said talk of the Illinois Democrat’s future leadership plans is premature.
“We are focused 150 percent on winning seats this cycle,” Burton said.
Sources indicate that Emanuel would be less inclined to stay in place if he achieves his goal of a Democratic majority or alternatively if the party fails to make gains this cycle. But sources speculate that if the party does well and inches closer to winning a majority in 2006, Emanuel would have a tough time stepping aside.
“We probably won’t have a good sense of who is going to be the next DCCC chairman until all of the electoral politics shake out,” said one Democratic leadership aide. |
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