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After President-elect Barack Obama tapped Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel to be his chief of staff, a long list is emerging of possible Democratic candidates for the special election to succeed him in the 5th District.
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Republicans are renewing calls for a special election in response to Democrats moving closer to seating Roland Burris as President-elect Barack Obama's replacement in the U.S. Senate.
(RTTNews) - A defiant Roland Burris took to the U.S. Capitol Tuesday seeking to claim the Senate seat to which he has been appointed by embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
It is total hypocrisy for the naysayers of embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to assert that he didn't have the legal right to appoint Roland Burris to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
SPRINGFIELD -- It won't be long after the new Congress and its two new central Illinois members are sworn in Tuesday that they'll have to begin confronting the country's serious economic strife.
If Senate Democrats stick to their refusal to seat Roland Burris as a senator from Illinois, his best bet could be getting a federal judge to force open the Senate's doors.
Illinois senate appointee Roland Burris was hoping to claim his position yesterday, but was turned away after his paperwork lacked a key signature needed for approval. The corruption case surrounding Burris' appointee, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, raises concern about the integrity of the powerful appointment.
On the 111th Congress' opening day Tuesday, Roland Burris showed up to claim Barack Obama's seat as the junior senator from Illinois. As promised, he was rejected. And a Senate seat for Minnesota remains vacant because of an election dispute. But the Senate carried on with its opening ceremonies.
Illinois legislature wants him to testify on Wednesday, but he’s expected to be in D.C. then.
CHICAGO, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., said he was not particularly interested in running for governor in a special election to replace Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Top Democrats symbolically barred the Senate door Tuesday to the man chosen by Illinois's scandal-tainted governor to fill president-elect Barack Obama's seat, in the latest twist of a bizarre political sideshow.
