opyright 1996 The State Journal-Register
The State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)
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October 27, 1996, Friday, EARLY AND CITY EDITIONS
SECTION: NEWS, Pg. 1, ELECTION ’96
LENGTH: 1794 words
HEADLINE: Tow candidates – one senator / Durbin, Salvi on the campaign trail in one of the most closely watched races
BYLINE: PUAL KRAWZAK COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
DATELINE: CHICAGO
BODY:
Dick Durbin’s campaign is starting a little late on this beautiful Indian summer Sunday so the candidate can catch up on some rest.
In his quest to succeed Paul Simon as the state’s next senator, Durbin has campaigned seven days a week since August, the last time he took a day off.
At 10:15 a.m., dressed in a conservative gray suit, the seven-term Springfield congressman walks out of the Seneca Hotel near Chicago’s Water Tower, where he stays while campaigning in northern Illinois.
He hops into a beige Chevrolet Suburban that soon is heading north on Lake Shore Drive toward the first destination, a service at the black Second Baptist Church in Evanston. Sailboats dot Lake Michigan.
Responding to someone’s question, Durbin, 51, admits he didn’t get his jog in this morning. “I jog . . . you probably can’t tell,” he quips.
Durbin is accompanied by his driver, an advance man and a woman who has close ties to the city’s black churches.
Talking from time to time, he expresses his enjoyment of a book he is reading by Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate for Alice Palmer’s south side state Senate seat. The book, “Dreams from My Father,” is about Obama’s return to Africa to trace his roots.
How true, I never thought about it like that YY11. Intersting blast from the past though Arch!
Yawn. Having your book read by Durbin is a qualification for office?
No, and no one claimed it was a qualification for office so why do you ask the question?
It is implied.
No, it isn’t implied. How is it implied that someone reading his book 11 years ago is a reason to vote for him?
Given I’ve been covering Barack Obama for four years I found it interesting that Durbin was reading it before hardly anyone knew of him–though the Simon connection is probably relevant.