nbcchicago.com - 1/22/2009
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Enough about Barack Obama s first day in office. What about Rollin Roland Burris ? Around noon Wednesday, Burris' sparsely furnished office was occupied by three staffers, at least two of whom were there on a temporary basis, the Bloomington Pantagraph reports . The blue-carpeted suite was ...
dailykos.com - 1/30/2009
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Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 1/26-28. Likely voters.
MoE 4%, 5% for primary samples (No trendlines) Democratic
Primary Burris 26 Schakowsky 12 Giannoulias 11 Undecided 51 Republican Primary Kirk 27 Roskam 17 Undecided 56 What can ...
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IL-Sen: The GOP's best lag behind
politico.com - 1/22/2009
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Giannoulias would be able to partially self-finance campaign,
a significant asset. Burris has to begin raising money
from scratch, and it s unclear how much money he can raise if he wants to run for election. Burris seating has been shrouded in ...
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Burris could be challenged by Obama ally
archpundit.com - 1/27/2009
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Sigh Speaking this morning at a Martin Luther
King Jr. breakfast, the state’s new junior U.S. senator,
Roland Burris said that without Burris’ own trailblazing, Barack Obama never would have been elected president. “If there was no Martin Luther ...
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Roland Burris Gets Fred Thompson's Old Senate Office
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... sparsely furnished office was occupied by three staffers, at least two of whom were there on a temporary basis.
The blue-carpeted suite was formerly occupied for a time by Fred Thompson, a former senator from Tennessee, who made a short-lived bid for the Republican nomination for president in 2008.
Interviews for employees were underway and a receptionist was referring callers with problems to Illinois U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin's office.
(via Steve Rhodes/NBC Chicago)
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Roland Burris Gets Fred Thompson's Old Senate Office
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... sparsely furnished office was occupied by three staffers, at least two of whom were there on a temporary basis.
The blue-carpeted suite was formerly occupied for a time by Fred Thompson, a former senator from Tennessee, who made a short-lived bid for the Republican nomination for president in 2008.
Interviews for employees were underway and a receptionist was referring callers with problems to Illinois U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin's office.
(via Steve Rhodes/NBC Chicago)
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