The Meeks' strategy of threatening to run a third-party candidacy is now being used by a Jesse Jackson Jr protege' University Park Mayor Al McCowan, in the south suburban 40th Senate district.
Political reporter Kristen McQueary writes about the development this morning in the Daily Southtown . . .here.
Jackson's peeved at Emil Jones' right hand gal State Senator Debbie Halvorson over the Peotone Airport, and is threatening to take her on in November.
I got a call this week from a Republican who's been asked to step into the race, former Olympia Fields Park District Board member Joe Maun, who thinks a Republican could pull off an upset if the vote is split three-ways.
It's happened before. Meeks ousted former Senator Bill Shaw in 2002 in a three-way race which included a well-liked local police chief running as a Republican.
Between Eric Wallace's brewing challenge against Democratic incumbent Maggie Crotty and this development in Halvorson's neighboring district, the south suburbs just may be the place to watch for exciting conservative developments in the days to come. . . stay tuned.
