IL-Sen: Jan Schakowsky in, Roskam considering

Dailykos has a diary up on this front-paged here: http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…

Original Article: http://www.theseminal.com/2008…

At the midwest acadamy awards last night:

Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown introduced Illinois Representative Jan Schakowsky by saying, “We may have a special election in Illinois, and if Jan Schakowsky runs, I’ll support her.”

That wasn’t all to happen:

At the end of her speech, Schakowsky threw her hat in the ring, announcing that she was “passing around a clipboard” for people to sign up to be on an organizing committee for her “Senate race, and a basket for donations will follow right behind.” The audience cheered.

As for Roskam: http://www.politico.com/news/s…

A source close to Rep. Peter J. Roskam said the second-term congressman is also “very interested” in running for the Senate seat and wouldn’t automatically defer to Kirk. Roskam has a more conservative voting record than Kirk and has won election to a suburban Chicago seat during two rough election cycles for the GOP.  

For the sake of comparison, here are the PVI’s for each congressperson, (I’m using the old PVI’s and that may be more useful since Obama will not be on the ballot in 2010 or in a special election)

IL-06 (Roskam) has a PVI of R+3

IL-09 (Schakowsky) has a PVI of D+20

IL-10 (Kirk) has a PVI of D+4

Illinois as a whole has an old PVI of D+9.  

33 thoughts on “IL-Sen: Jan Schakowsky in, Roskam considering”

  3. December 10, 2008

    Tyler Oakely endorses Peter Roskam for Senate

    Voted NO on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Jan 2007)

    Voted NO on assisting workers who lose jobs due to globalization. (Oct 2007)

    Voted NO on giving mental health full equity with physical health. (Mar 2008)

    Voted NO on Veto override: Extend SCHIP to cover 6M more kids. (Jan 2008)

    Voted NO on adding 2 to 4 million children to SCHIP eligibility. (Oct 2007)

    Voted NO on restricting employer interference in union organizing. (Mar 2007)

    Voted NO on increasing minimum wage to $7.25. (Jan 2007)

    Mark Kirk voted YES for 5 of these bills.

  5. Schakowsky gets this! She would be a great addition to the Senate. Also, I think she has several advantages for running, she should run up numbers in the Chicago area, preventing a Republican from making any gains there, and perhaps her name might even help with Polish and other Eastern European communities in Illinois, which sometimes can be conservative on social issues.

  7. I seem to recall Gov. Blagojevich once saying Steve Bartman should join the witness protection for grabbing the ball that possibly cost the Cubs an NLCS game.  Maybe it’s the Blagojevich’s who should join the witness protection program.

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITI…

    Despite Patricia Blagojevich’s myriad charitable endeavors, she is now thought of as the goading voice in the background of a November phone call taped by the FBI.

    “Hold up that f—ing Cubs s—. F— them,” she allegedly said as her husband, Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, bandied about a scheme to withhold state funds from the Cubs’ parent Tribune Company unless the owner agreed to fire certain Chicago Tribune employees.

    Seven days later, according to the affidavit, she took part in a meeting about whether President-elect Barack Obama would secure a lucrative job for her if her husband appointed Obama’s preferred candidate to his vacant Senate seat.

  8. absent some massive NRSC spending for Kirk in the primary they way they did in the Chafee-Laffey RI-Sen race in 2006.  However, neither of them would have to resign since this is a special election, right?  Unless (god forbid) one actually beats the Democrat.

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