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...Lane Evans is using high-caliber weapons to secure his spot on the ballot. Michael Curtiss, M.D., a general practitioner from western Illinois, raised about $50,000 in funds by raffling guns on the Internet. Currently up for grabs is a .50-cal. rifle that Democratic Chicago representative Rod Blagojevich is trying to ban - the ArmaLite AR-50. Curtiss snidely refers to it as the "Blagojevich Special." At least 1,000 tickets at $20 a pop have been sold. Curtiss insists that the raffles promote awareness about the "threatened" Second Amendment - as well as raise cash. Winners...
...until yesterday, Blagojevich had never set foot upon the campus of America's oldest university...
...Elect Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) served in the Illinois General Assembly. He knocked off a first-term Republican incumbent in the Nov. 5 elections. And he's been to Disneyland...
...Blagojevich was one of about 50 newly-elected members of Congress attending an orientation session for the Congressional Class...
Results were mixed among the Republican freshmen who upset longtime Democratic powers in 1994. Michael Flanagan two years ago stunned everyone by dethroning Dan Rostenkowski, overlord of the House Ways and Means Committee. On Tuesday, though, Flanagan fell to Rod Blagojevich and a Chicago Democratic machine no longer burdened with defending a Representative under a 17-count federal corruption indictment, as Rostenkowski had been. On the other hand, the biggest giant killer of them all, George Nethercutt, held on to the Washington State seat he had snatched from Tom Foley, House Speaker until...