Illinois Senate Race May Draw Latest Kennedy Heir Into Politics

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This could be good timing considering what happened with Burris today.


Illinois Senate Race May Draw Latest Kennedy Heir Into Politics

By CQ Staff | May 26, 2009 5:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)


Chris Kennedy


Chicago businessman Chris Kennedy, a son of the late New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, appears likely to launch a 2010 Senate bid in Illinois.

This candidacy would make him the latest in the famed family's "second generation" to enter the political fray.

It also would lengthen the list of Democrats who are either certain to run or are thinking about running in the February primary for the seat held by interim Democratic Sen. Roland W. Burris, whose appointment to the seat Barack Obama vacated to become president has remained controversial and unpopular.

The Chicago Sun-Times has reported that Kennedy could announce his plans this week.

In the same article, Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed also noted that Kennedy has already hired AKPD Message and Media, the Chicago-based political consulting firm founded by David Axelrod, Obama's chief aide during the 2008 presidential campaign and now his senior adviser in the White House.

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http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/eyeon2010/2009/05/illinois-senate-race-may-draw-1.html