{"id":3441,"date":"2005-01-28T10:26:26","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T15:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3441.html"},"modified":"2005-01-28T10:26:26","modified_gmt":"2005-01-28T15:26:26","slug":"the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"The gift that keeps on giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) is relatively popular, but state Republicans are already gearing up for a tough race in 2006. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/sneed\/cst-nws-sneed28a.html\">Guess who<\/a> has eyes on the campaign&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rumble is former Republican U.S. Senate candidate\/nightmare Alan Keyes is eyeing a bid for governor. <\/p>\n<p>Let us pray for deliverance. <\/p>\n<p>Keyes, whose religious and political views give moderate GOPers the shakes, is not only back . . . he&#8217;s conducting the first meeting of his &#8220;Cook County United&#8221; gathering of 40 to 50 of Cook County&#8217;s best conservative activists in his Loop office tonight! <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss dinner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember, Illinois Republicans, you asked for this when you brought the guy into your state for the Senate campaign. Like Frankenstein, you created a monster &#8212; and now you don&#8217;t know what to do with him.<\/p>\n<p><i>Update<\/i>: <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2005\/01\/28\/keyes_could_run_for_illinois_governor.html\">Taegan Goddard has learned<\/a> that Illinois law mandates that gubernatorial candidates live in the state for at least three years. Unless Illinois&#8217; Republicans want to follow Kentucky&#8217;s lead &#8212; where the GOP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/003362.html\">doesn&#8217;t care about residency requirements<\/a> &#8212; this means Keyes will have to think of something else to do with his time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) is relatively popular, but state Republicans are already gearing up for a tough race in 2006. Guess who has eyes on the campaign&#8230; Rumble is former Republican U.S. Senate candidate\/nightmare Alan Keyes is eyeing a bid for governor. Let us pray for deliverance. Keyes, whose religious and political views give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}