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...Retired politicians frequently return to the campaign trail on behalf of grateful candidates seeking an electoral boost. But former Illinois Governor George Ryan has become the focus of that state's current gubernatorial race in a quite different way. Both Democrat incumbent Governor Rod Blagojevich and GOP challenger Judy Baar Topinka, the three-term state treasurer, are scrambling to show that their opponent most closely resembles the disgraced one-term Republican now facing six and a half years in federal prison for corruption and fraud...
...billion Amount allotted by Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois for a plan to substitute oil with homegrown energy products like corn-based ethanol...
...Year by which Blagojevich aims to have biofuels satisfying 50% of Illinois' gasoline needs...
...Tusk and Blagojevich's supporters brush off the naysayers. "We're doing this and we're making it work," Tusk said. "To the pundits who only look at health care for children and preschool as a political issue, they have a pretty jaundiced view on life...
...Until the Repubicans have a plan of their own to tout, says GOP political consultant Cathy Santos, it won't do much good to bash the Governor's. "It's like a puppy bill. Of course people are going to support the notion. He's doing his job. Blagojevich is being a Democrat and Democrats like these big social programs," Santos says. "But where are the Republicans with their counter? Do we just shoot it down and wait for another Democratic plan to shoot down, or do we come up with an alternative...