The face of DuPage question of the day.
During the 1990s, DuPage County was the face of Republican Party dominance in Illinois politics. Now, not so much.
But two county officials are often mentioned as possible candidates for statewide office in 2010.
State's Attorney Joe Birkett recently told the Daily Herald he's considering a run for either governor or attorney general. He narrowly lost the attorney general race to Democrat Lisa Madigan in 2002 and was the lieutenant governor nominee on the GOP ticket that lost in 2006.
County board chairman Bob Schillerstrom also seems to have increasingly fancied himself a political player in recent years. Most recently he helped put votes on the mass transit bailout in exchange for getting a state-approved sales tax hike in DuPage that bailed out his budget.
So here's the question: Come November 2010, do you think either Birkett or Schillerstrom will be on the statewide ballot?
Feel free to elaborate.
Schillerstrom is content where he is and make too much $$$ at a big law firm. Birkett may want to run, but Cruz, Hernandez and taking $$$ from Tony Rezko and friends is a killer...non-starter($15,000). Joe's run and lost statewide twice. Judgeship Joe?
Looks like Basker is going to win the question of the day contest by default with the answer of "neither."
Any other takers out there?
I've got a prize box here at the Capitol filled with trinkets. If we start getting enough responses on these posts, I'll start digging in and sending out goodies.