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Tom Geoghegan for Congress
This Modern World — ... about democracy and economic justice, has announced his candidacy for Congress on DailyKos . He’s running in the special election to replace Rahm Emmanuel in Illinois’s 5th congressional district. His campaign website is ...

Progressive candidate announces run for Rahm's House seat
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... From Tom Geoghegan, over at DailyKo s: I’m running for Congress in the Fifth District of Illinois. As a Chicago lawyer for thirty years, I have fought for working people in the Fifth District and throughout the city. I have represented unions as well as people with no unions to protect them. In plant closings I have helped them recover health and pension benefits. I obtained health care for the uninsured. I've been pressing the State of Illinois to crack down on payday lenders. In my life as a lawyer I have lived out a commitment to one cause above all – to bring economic ...

Help Replace Rahm Emanuel With Tom Geoghegan... For A Better America
DownWithTyranny! — ... Tom Geoghegan (pronounced gay-gun) announced his intention to run for Congress from IL-05, his home district, a seat being vacated by Rahm Emanuel. When I spoke with him last week he told me he intended to make his announcement online and that he did, at Daily Kos. Tom's the first grassroots/netroots candidate of 2009 and it's more than a little ironic that this iconic leader of Chicago progressives is running for a seat that is opening up because the most Establishment and corporate-oriented of Democrats is moving on. I recommend reading the whole Kos diary at the link above, ...

Howie Klein: Helping Replace Rahm Emanuel With Tom Geoghegan... For A Better America
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Tom Geoghegan (pronounced gay-gun) announced his intention to run for Congress from IL-05, his home district, a seat being vacated by Rahm Emanuel. When I spoke with him last week he told me he intended to make his announcement online and that he did, at Daily Kos. Tom's the first grassroots/netroots candidate of 2009 and it's more than a little ironic that this iconic leader of Chicago progressives is running for a seat that is opening up because the most Establishment and corporate-oriented of Democrats is moving on. I recommend reading the whole Kos diary at the link above, ...

Daily Digest: CTO Watch -- The Rising Stock of California PhDs
techPresident — ... his 1991 look at the state and promise of the American union movement. Geoghegan's announcement yesterday that he aims to replace Rahm Emanuel as the representative from Illinois's fifth district sparked intense interest among the online left, many of whose members learned labor history at least in part from his work. His announcement diary was the belle of the ball on Daily Kos yesterday, and ...