Wow.
Rauschenberger has jumped on the bandwagon with Syverson.
Rauschenberger helped state Sen. Dave Syverson, R-Rockford, push the Illinois Republican State Central Committee to select Keyes, who has run twice for the presidency and twice for U.S. Senate in Maryland and lost on all four occasions. Rauschenberger denied playing more than a supporting role in the days leading up to the central committee’s decision, however. “I think it’s a little bit of a reach to say I engineered it,” said Rauschenberger, who handed most of the credit to Syverson, the committee’s top vote holder. “I certainly support (Keyes), but I never have spoken to him.” Rauschenberger said he actually held back from mounting a full-on lobbying blitz out of concern that it might do more harm than good.
Rauschenberger must have taken two lessons from the Senate race–get conservative money if you aren’t rich and get conservative money by being a little crazy.
Jack Roeser is pushing this deal on top of others. And here is where it gets confusing to me. Jack Roeser (not the grump Tom Roeser (unrelated) who writes in the Sun-Times) just started Renew Illinois with Pat O’Malley. O’Malley is already running for the 2006 Gubernatorial nomination. Where does this leave Rauschenberger? Who is Roeser going to back? Hmmm…..
Proft and Pascoe are a bunch of parasites. This will hurt the GOP more than anyone knows.
Say good bye to any pick up’s in the House. Say good bye to an all GOP Dupage County Board (which actually might not be that bad of an idea)
Say good ridd^H^H^H^Hbye to Philip Crane.