Chicago Area Democrat With Jesuit Connections

Thanks to the media circus swirling around the governor of Illinois and his schemes to fill President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat, little attention is being paid to the race to succeed Rahm Emanuel as he moves from the House of Representatives to White House chief of staff.

That's a shame, because voters in Mr. Emanuel's 5th district, largely composed of Chicago's North Side, will have the chance to redeem their state's reputation. They will likely have the chance to elect, out of a crowded race, a true reformer in Thomas Geoghegan.

Mr. Geoghegan is something of an oddity in Chicago. He is a respected lawyer, but he has spent his career in the unlucrative fields of labor law and advocacy for the poor. His connections are probably better with the Jesuits than with City Hall.

Link (here)

Read about the 5th Congressional seat (here)

The other guys running for the same seat

• Official website of Mike Quigley
  
• Official website of Charles Wheelan, Ph.D
  
• Official website of Sara Feigenholtz
  
• Official website of Justin Oberman

Tom Geoghegan's Jesuit connections

In Geoghegan's book, The Secret Lives of Citizen's he has a comparison of Jesuit's to Leninist's, which you can read (here)

Geoghegan to speak at Loyola Chicago Law School (here)

Some of Geoghegan's articles on Catholicism

"Confessions Of A 'Practicing' Catholic: A Yuppie Lawyer's Dirty Little Secret,"
September 30, 1985

"Popestock In Chicago: John Paul's Winning Battle In A Losing War,"
October 20, 1978

A complete list of articles in the New Republic (here)