I just realized this article was from November 6, 2007 and I saw a story about a press conference in support of Burris' appointment to Obama's vacated US Senate seat on WGN Saturday night. Sorry if the first question seemed smart alecky seeing Burris interested in the vacant seat after the Senate seat auction scandal was put up for sale came out of no where!
Roland Burris, the Illinoisan with more statewide office experience than any other Black politician, says he'd accept an appointment to succeed President-elect Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate.Roland Burris who's 71 and I believe a resident of the 6th Ward said that he's never lost to a Republican. I suppose that he assumes that he might be able to keep his seat in the Senate should he be appointed. Burris also used to be first state comptroller and more recently state attorney general. He was the first black elected to statewide office and I hope this isn't predicated on Blagojevich appointing him.
Burris told The Associated Press Wednesday that a half-dozen Black ministers from Chicago have approached him to see if he's interested in the job.
The Centralia native says that if Gov. Rod Blagojevich appoints him, he'd accept.
Here's a story from WBBM-TV via CapFax.
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