{"id":365812,"date":"2010-02-26T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/hammond-mayor-talks-ind-more-senate-race"},"modified":"2010-02-26T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:04:45","slug":"hammond-mayor-talks-ind-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/365812","title":{"rendered":"Hammond mayor talks Ind. Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. says he knows he’s a dark horse candidate in seeking the Democratic nomination for Evan Bayh’s Senate seat.<\/p>\n

McDermott said he met in Washington this week with Bayh and Congressmen Brad Ellsworth and Pete Visclosky to discuss the race.<\/p>\n

The second-term mayor says he understands Ellsworth is the favorite to win the nomination from the state Democratic Party’s central committee but that he also sees his candidacy as a way of keeping northwestern Indiana’s concerns in the process.<\/p>\n

McDermott is the Democratic chairman in Lake County, the state’s second largest. <\/span>He says he talked with Bayh about how Lake County could have a more significant role in statewide races.<\/p>\n

Congressman Baron Hill also is considering a bid for the Democratic Senate nomination.<\/p>\n

Read the original article from WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. says he knows he’s a dark horse candidate in seeking the Democratic nomination for Evan Bayh’s Senate seat. McDermott said he met in Washington this week with Bayh and Congressmen Brad Ellsworth and Pete Visclosky to discuss the race. The second-term mayor says he understands Ellsworth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}