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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2010 => Topic started by: bijou on August 06, 2010, 01:13:44 PM
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Illinois Sen. Roland Burris is moving ahead with a legal challenge to a judge’s decision blocking new candidates from filing to run in a special election for the final months of President Barack Obama’s old Senate term.
Burris filed a notice Wednesday evening indicating that he will appeal U.S. District Judge John Grady’s ruling that the parties’ nominees for the Nov. 2 general election would automatically be placed on the ballot as nominees for a special election to serve between Election Day and the start of the next Congress.
That decision would make Democratic state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias and Republican Rep. Mark Kirk the major-party candidates in a special. But Burris wants the option of running for the seat himself, in order to serve an additional few weeks in his appointed office.
“To not give the people of the state of Illinois an option, we think that’s an issue,†Burris attorney Timothy Wright said.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40703.html#ixzz0vqo9cLaj
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Do not go quietly into that good night, Mister Burris?
Frankly, were I you, I would seriously reconsider that.
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This is the guy who, before the ink was even dry on his "appointment" as senator, went ahead and had a mausoleum built for himself and his fellow crypt-critters. The mausoleum has him listed as a senator.
He actually had the nerve to leave room on the stone for future "achievements."
I think that kind of narcissism runs rampant in Illinois politicians.
This guy reminds of a turd that won't quite fall out of the anal orifice from which it emanates. :loser:
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Do not go quietly into that good night, Mister Burris?
Frankly, were I you, I would seriously reconsider that.
Sparky, sir, I'm on the opposite side of this. I wish Mr. Burris all the luck in the world in dividing the Democrat voters.
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Sparky, sir, I'm on the opposite side of this. I wish Mr. Burris all the luck in the world in dividing the Democrat voters.
Amen brother, well half brother, you were an officer afterall :-)