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Matthew Filipowicz: Phone Bank For Tom Geoghegan From Your Living Room
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Right after I moved back to Chicago a little over a year ago, I realized had no idea who my House member was. This was exciting. It was time to play the House of Representatives lottery! I went to the House site, I entered my info and ... I busted. I found out my representative was Rahm Emanuel. To say I swore very loudly when his name came up would be a disservice to my upstairs neighbors. Luckily the authorities were not called. So when Barack Obama chose Rahm as his Chief of Staff, I had mixed emotions. First disappointment. Why couldn't Obama pick someone more progressive? Then excitement. Rahm isn't going to be my ...

How you can help send Tom Geoghegan to Congress, filling (ha ha!) Master Rahm's old seat
DownWithTyranny! — by Ken Howie has been keeping DWT readers up to date on the campaign of Tom Geoghegan, the political theorists' and activists' political theorist and activist, in the crowded Democratic field in the March 3 special election in IL-05, the House district represented by Master Rahm Emanuel until he quit to become White House chief of staff. Most recently, accompanying a clip in which Tom explains why he's running for Congress, Howie wrote about this "innovative and dynamic leader who can craft and push forward a worthwhile message for a progressive Democratic Party and a ...