Haley Barbour Gives Illinois GOP a Pep Talk
Despite a seemingly fractured Governor’s ticket, the Illinois GOP sent a message to its troops Wednesday at the Republican Unity Breakfast.
“We’re back, baby!”
Keynote speaker Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi asked the group at the Union League Club of Chicago if they had the ammunition for to turn a blue state red.
“You think what Illinois has done for the last eight years is enough to unite the Republicans in the fall,” he asked, referring to this state’s penchant for corrupt jailbird governors.
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2/3/10
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