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Sunday, December 28, 2008
Ind. Courts - "Wieser's hat in ring for U.S. attorney"
Mark Kiesling, columnist for the NWI Times, writes today in a column that begins:
Since 1981, every U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Indiana has come from Lake or Porter counties, and if I was a betting man I'd say the trend is going to continue.As president, Barack Obama will name all new U.S. attorneys, and if I had any money left after Christmas I would put some of it on Schererville lawyer Jim Wieser.
Wieser, 61, a longtime fixture in Democratic circles, was in on the bottom floor of the Obama campaign in Lake County. He was also instrumental in getting a judge to order early voting centers open in Hammond, Gary and East Chicago, a key to Obama's success in Lake County and his eventual victory in Indiana.
For having helped make Obama the first Democrat to win Indiana since Lyndon Johnson, it's natural for Obama's guys to look to Wieser as someone who can make things happen.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 28, 2008 11:57 AM
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