It appears Lee Newcom is worried about the Good Ambassador.
?As a downstate ballot candidate I am very concerned about Keyes performance so far,? said Lee Newcom, McLean County Recorder nominee and immediate past-president of the conservative United Republican Fund. ?If he doesn’t get himself under control real quick he will hurt a lot of us.?
One can only hope–Newcome’s a moron who used to tell high school GOP groups that they were great because they could do dirty tricks and not be held accountable.
It’s also worth noting that both Bloomington and Normal have anti-discrimination ordinances–in fact, Bloomington threw Jesse Smart out of office as Mayor for a nationally embarrassing effort on Oprah decrying the bill. For two towns next to each other, they are remarkably different, but both are still conservative, but the kind of rhetoric Keyes uses won’t play there. I’m already betting Newcome goes down anyway given the Republicans I know who are not fans of the guy.