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According to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times Harry Reid tried to steer Illinois Gov. Rod Blagoevich away from picking an African-American to replace Barck Obama in the Senate.
From ABC News’ Jake Tapper
An interesting development after today’s Chicago Sun-Times story in which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., suggests to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagoevich that he pick either Tammy Duckworth or Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan but not appoint either Reps. Jesse Jackson Jr. or Danny Davis, or state senate president Emil Jones, to President-elect Obama’s former Senate seat. (Reid is reported to have worried none of the three could win reelection.)
Senate Republicans are now pointing out that Jackson, Davis and Jones are all African-American.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, tees it off by saying: “For the last several weeks, Sen. Reid has led the charge to deny the people of Illinois a voice in choosing their next U.S. Senator in a special election. Now we learn that Sen. Reid also took the extraordinary step to lobby against two sitting U.S. Congressmen and the State Senate Majority Leader in Illinois, and instead told Gov. Blagojevich that he supported an appointment for an individual who recently lost a U.S. House election. The people of Illinois deserve a simple explanation from Senator Reid—why does he believe these three Illinois officeholders are ‘unelectable’ to the U.S. Senate?”
More pointedly, a GOP Senate aide writes in an email, “I do think it’s a fair question to point out—what would the reaction be if a Republican had been pressuring a Governor not to pick one of the black candidates? You and I both remember the outrage over Trent Lott’s comments at Strom Thurmond’s birthday party. I’m not suggesting either of them is racist, just saying it seems like there’s always a double standard on how R’s and D’s are judged on things like this.”
Maybe Reid isn’t racist, but he is a bumbling Majority Leader.
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