The blog Goddess Musings has the dish on a Democratic establishment/netroots squabble emerging for the congressional race in Illinois' 6th district. Apparently, the Democrats' man in charge of trying to get a House majority has picked a female veteran of the Iraq war who lost both her legs in Tammy Duckworth for the seat (yet another Fighting Dem -- check out the DailyKos/Air America features on this). There's already a very successful netroots Democratic challenger named Christine Cegelis who has been very active in getting her candidacy together (Michael in Chicago has written numerous posts about Cegelis recently the blog MyDD) that Emanuel appears to have overlooked. This is Hackett/Brown all over again, sort of.

What has Cegelis supporters hopping mad is that George Stephanopolous -- the new top ABC political correspondent and former Emanuel colleague in the Clinton White House -- has invited Duckworth on his show "This Week," and not Cegelis for equal time. Charges of favoritism and favorism and good-ole'-boyism are flying, and Cegelis' supporters want justice, damnit!

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