{"id":464494,"date":"2010-03-23T17:04:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.33441"},"modified":"2010-03-23T17:40:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:40:23","slug":"illinois-senate-10th-c-d-house-rivals-at-aipac-kirk-giannoulias-dold-seals-also-bill-brady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/464494","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Senate, 10th C.D. House rivals at AIPAC: Kirk,  Giannoulias Dold,  Seals. Also Bill Brady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;The annual AIPAC policy conference here&#8211;American Israel Public Affairs Committee&#8211;drew Democratic and GOP Illinois candidates looking for Jewish-American support.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois GOP Senate nominee Rep. Mark Steven Kirk (R-Ill.), who is making his support for Israel a major part of his campaign, hosted a group of Illinois AIPAC members&#8211;about 100 at a session at a hotel here on Tuesday afternoon. I&#8217;m told by someone who was there he was &#8220;warmly received.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) was also seen introducing around AIPAC the Illinois Democratic Senate nominee, state treasurer Alexi Giannoulias. Durbin was an honorary host for a bi-partisan Illinois delegation reception in honor of Lee Rosenberg &#8211; the incoming president of AIPAC, who is from Chicago &#8211; Monday night, but he did not attend.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Dan Seals and Republican Bob Dold, candidates running for Kirk&#8217;s vacant House seat&#8211;in the heavily Jewish 10th Congressional District&#8211;also hit the AIPAC conference. Dold also made some other calls while here.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Bill Brady (R-Bloomington), the GOP candidate for Illinois governor also flew here for the conference to woo votes to a community where he is barely known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;The annual AIPAC policy conference here&#8211;American Israel Public Affairs Committee&#8211;drew Democratic and GOP Illinois candidates looking for Jewish-American support. Illinois GOP Senate nominee Rep. Mark Steven Kirk (R-Ill.), who is making his support for Israel a major part of his campaign, hosted a group of Illinois AIPAC members&#8211;about 100 at a session at a hotel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464494","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\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}