Judy Baar Topinka To Run for Governor
Illinois State Treasurer and prominent Republican Judy Baar Topinka has announced that she will challenge Gov. Rod Blagojevich in the 2006 gubernatorial election.
You may recall that as state chairman of the Illinois GOP, Topinka was the mastermind that put ranting homophobe Alan Keyes on the ticket to run against Barack Obama after GOP golden boy Jack (A)Ryan was embroiled in a sex scandal and forced to drop out of the race.
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Are you sure about this? Looks to me like she’s running against Dorothy Tillman.
Is that a crack on Judy and Dorothy’s respective haberdashery?
Either way, that hat’s about to make her tip over.
Topinka was hardly the “mastermind” behind Alan Keyes’s candidacy. In fact, reading or watching the interviews she gave at the time left the distinct impression that she wanted anybody BUT Keyes to run in his stead. I remember one interview in particular where she said “Well, he’s the candidate” in a tone that gave new meaning to the term “resigned.”
Ah, haberdashery! Only a fine gent knows that word. Yes, I was. Good morn to ye all.
*hiding under my desk*
A tip of my chapeau to you, Ms. Roche.