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| Last Edited | COSDem Sep 07, 2011 09:25pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - News Gazette |
| News Date | Thursday, September 8, 2011 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson doesn't get to choose his Democratic opponent in next year's general election. But if he did, it would be former state Rep. Jay Hoffman.
Hoffman, a Collinsville Democrat, announced Thursday that he is looking into running in the new 13th Congressional District and would make his decision by the end of September. Already in the race is Bloomington physician David Gill, whom Johnson has already defeated three times when the two faced off in the old 15th Congressional District.
Hoffman's close association with former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was used against him last year in his unsuccessful campaign for re-election against Republican Dwight Kay of Edwardsville. Hoffman also came in for criticism earlier this year when, as a lame-duck legislator, he voted for a 67 percent state income tax increase in the closing days of the old 96th General Assembly.
"I guess given the fact that there's a long history of votes that I would say are safely out of the mainstream of the people of this district, for example nearly doubling the income tax in a lame duck session of the Legislature, I'd rather run against somebody who's been a part of the problem," Johnson said Friday.
Johnson pledged that he "won't run a negative campaign in any way against either one of them." |
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