Hastert leads Romney delegate
slate
Chicago
Tribune
October
2, 2007
Rick
Pearson
Former
U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert heads a full slate of 57 candidates who intend
to seek election as convention delegates pledged to Republican presidential
contender Mitt Romney in the state’s Feb. 5 primary, the campaign said Tuesday.
In
becoming the first presidential campaign to announce its Illinois delegate
slate, including 57 alternate delegate candidates, the Romney campaign is
intending to show a breadth of organizational skills in a state that is very
much up for grabs for Republican White House contenders.
“To be
able to get 114 men and women who are geographically spread across the state
does take a good deal of organizational effort,” said state Sen. Dan Rutherford
of Chenoa, Romney’s Illinois campaign chairman. “Mitt Romney’s presence
throughout the state, from the deep south to urban areas, also has interested
people in his effort.”
In
addition to Hastert, the Plano Republican who intends to retire from Congress,
the Romney delegate slate includes Rutherford and state Sen. Dale Righter of
Charleston as well as former state Sens. Steve Rauschenberger of Elgin, Walter
Dudycz of Chicago and Doris Karpiel of Carol Stream.
Also
running as delegates for Romney are Karen McConnaughay, who chairs the Kane
County Board, and Elizabeth Gorman, a Cook County board member who also chairs
the Cook County GOP.
Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani's campaign said it also had filled out a
slate of delegates, but would be announcing them at a later date.
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