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Article: Chicagoans want to draft former Bears coach Mike Ditka for Senate race
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- July 14, 2004
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MAURA KELLY LANNAN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
07-14-2004
Dateline: CHICAGO
In a measure of the Illinois Republican Party's desperation and Chicago's devotion to its Bears pro football team, a movement is afoot to draft the team's brash, tough-talking former coach Mike Ditka to run for the U.S. Senate.
Ditka, a Hall of Famer who led the team to the 1986 Super Bowl and now spends most of his time on TV as a football analyst and pitchman for a casino and an impotence drug, has said it is an exciting idea, but he has not made up his mind.
"I've talked to some people but that's about all I've done," Ditka said Tuesday night at his Chicago restaurant.
What started out almost as a lark ...
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