Last Wednesday, one of Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s most favored black Chicago activists held a press conference with a few Champaign-area ministers to pressure Sen. Michael Frerichs (D-Champaign) to vote for Sen. James Clayborne for Senate President. But the specter of a Chicago-based Blagojevich ally traveling to Champaign to urge a local legislator to vote for an East St. Louis Senator who was privately backed by the horribly unpopular governor didn’t go over too well at the Statehouse.Perhaps it's a good thing that downstater and black State Senator Clayborne didn't make it. Some might start to believe that he won't be much different than the now departing Emil Jones. Read the rest of Miller's syndicated column over the at the Capitol Fax.
“If that’s how Clayborne is campaigning for Senate President, how would he govern?” several Senate Democrats wondered.
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Rich Miller on the election of Cullerton State Senate President
Here's something from his syndicated column that I actually had no idea about:
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