Champaign County Dems' chairman choices limited to 1

CHAMPAIGN – Will Rogers' dusty line about being a Democrat – "I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat." – fit Wednesday night's Champaign County Democratic Party showdown like a glove.

What at one time had been billed as an election with several candidates ended up, through parliamentary maneuvering, being an election with only one candidate. Later, the 50 or so precinct committeemen who were jammed into the party's cramped office in downtown Champaign elected a vice chair who in 2000 broke from the Democratic Party and endorsed Green Party candidate Ralph Nader for president.

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