Illinois Circular Firing Squad Team House Leadership Race Heats Up
Rich Miller describes the background to the House ICFST Leadership race. And in signs of the hari kari about to come, Roeser argues for Tenhouse.
Roeser predictably argues for being right (in more than one sense) than having influence. His argument is that somehow Tenhouse is going to restrain spending. Has anyone mentioned to Roeser that Tenhouse is going to virtually no say? He isn’t going to have a closely divided chamber and he is going to be competing with Da Speaker. Just what use would Tenhouse be other than voicing righteous indignation?
On the other hand Cross would keep suburban moderates in the fold and offer alternatives that would attract crossover votes. And must maybe reduce the gap between the two parties numbers.