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    Hooray for Tom Geoghegan

    The opposite of the Bobby Jindal thread.

    Hullabaloo has a post running down the election to fill Rahm Emmanuel's House seat, and there's a good chance that progressive lawyer, labor defender, and accomplished writer Tom Geoghegan (for those of us with non-Celtic tongues, every profile mentions that his name rhymes with Reagan) might win. There's a quote from a Harold Meyerson profile:

    Little about Tom Geoghegan resembles Ronald Reagan, but his hard-to-decipher last name rhymes with the former president's. A wry, heterodox liberal intellectual with a lifelong passion for American workers, Geoghegan first burst on to the literary and political scene with a great, slightly crazed ode to Chicago -- in the best tradition of Hecht, Algren and Bellow -- that ran in the New Republic in the 1980s and then with his 1991 book "Which Side Are You On? Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back," which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has since written four other books, some on the shambles that is the American legal system. He's became the go-to lawyer for Chicagoans who've lost their jobs through discrimination or who've been denied the pay they've earned. And now, he's the congressional candidate who supports single-payer health care, expanding Social Security to compensate for the decimation of private pensions, and government investment to rebuild our offshored manufacturing sector.
    Go Tom!

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    Hooray for Tom Geoghegan

    Yeah, he's not the frontrunner, but he's got a very decent shot at it, and he'd be brilliant.

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