Who is Blair Hull? He was the front runner for the Democratic nomination for Illinois junior U.S. Senate seat in 2004. Then on February 15, 2004, about a month before the primary the Chicago Tribune dropped this tidbit into the race at the end of an article by David Mardell:
"As his second marriage to Sexton collapsed in 1998, Sexton filed an order of protection against him, public records show. Hull won't talk about the divorce in detail, saying only that it was "contentious" and that he and Sexton are friends."
That was all it took for blood to hit the water. Hull's explanations didn't suffice, and calls came for him to release the divorce records. On Feb. 21 and 26, Mardell wrote two more articles highlighting Hull's difficulty.
Then two days later, bowing to pressure, Hull released his divorce records, showing a hostile relationship with his former wife. One day later, the Tribune endorsed Obama and cited Hull's divorce record as a reason for not supporting him. On March 2, NOW protested Hull in Chicago. Long story short: Hull tanked and Obama won.
Five months later, it was revealed, to little fanfare, by Mardell that the Obama campaign "worked aggressively behind the scenes to fuel controversy about Hull's filings."
So Obama took down Alice Palmer and 3 other opponents without an election in his primary campaign for the Illinois State Senate, and he also got Blair Hull whacked without getting any blood splattered on himself. How did he do it? Would anyone else fall?
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