But even as the 71-year-old political soldier looks toward election to a full term in 2010 — supporters received an e-mail Friday morning soliciting donations of $10 to $250 — he has been shirked on Capitol Hill and still faces a Senate ethics committee investigation into his conduct.The prosecutor's announcement "probably stops the bleeding," but doesn't improve Burris' political stature, said Kent Redfield, a political scientist affiliated with the University of Illinois at Springfield.
"Public opinion has become so hard. It's no longer whether he crossed a legal line, but the way he conducted himself in dealing with the governor," Redfield said. "It links him to a chapter in Illinois politics that everyone wants to get beyond."
With Senate Democrats making it clear they won't support a Burris election bid, party members in Illinois are champing at the bit for a chance.
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2 comments:
He's not going to get elected, and will escape this whole ordeal. Really he's a lawyer, he's been around Springfield, (as AG if you remember)
Yes Third your right but who knows what God has planned for Roland. Life is funny as Roland lied, cheated and stole his way into the Senate Seat, Satan always gives you what you want but at what price will Roland have to pay? Roland is dishonest and lied to the citizens he is suppose to represent. I'll be watching the outcome.
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