From Northwest Herald:

Illinois Democratic Party chairman Michael Madigan has urged candidates to deal with the issue of Blagojevich “head on.” He said they should remind voters that it was a Democrat-controlled Legislature that impeached and removed Blagojevich from office.

Democrats face difficult questions about their ties to Blagojevich. It will be hard for Madigan and Gov. Pat Quinn, Blagojevich’s former lieutenant governor, to argue they have clean hands because they both supported him four years ago.

Democrats say they’ve got other ways to fight back. They can remind voters the state’s last Republican governor, George Ryan, is in prison after being convicted of corruption. They can highlight that Giannoulias’ Republican opponent, Congressman Mark Kirk, was caught embellishing details about his military service in the Naval Reserves and other episodes in his life. And they can target Republican candidates over their voting records in Congress and in the state Legislature.

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