11.20.2008 12:12 am
Clayborne Falls Short in Ill. Senate Leadership Bid
Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau
Clayborne
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois state Sen. James Clayborne, D-Belleville, lost his bid to become Senate president at a late-night meeting in a downtown Springfield hotel tonight.
Instead, Sen. John Cullerton, D-Chicago, will assume the high-powered office in January. Clayborne said afterward…
