Alan Dershowitz has endorsed Republican Joel Pollack for US Representative in the Illinois 9th over incumbent Democrat Jan Schakowsky.

It’s in Politico, a Washington Post Blog, while Chicago Now posts a press release from the Pollak campaign in one of our favorite blogs. TPM and Salon ridicule Dershowitz for straying from the apparatchik’s devotion to Pollak’s opponent Jan Schakowsky.

The Tribune and Sun-Time’s missed it, they must have been otherwise engaged with nitpicking Mark Kirk’s teaching record (Sun-Times)  or nitpicking Mark Kirk’s military record (Tribune).

Carol Felsenthal does the full job on the Dershowitz/Pollak/Schakowsky story here.

Joel Pollak, the 32-year-old Harvard-educated Tea-Party-backed candidate for the 9th Congressional District (currently occupied by Jan Schakowsky), had what seemed like a hugely successful fundraiser on Wednesday afternoon. Featuring Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, the luncheon was held at the Rich Melman-owned Wildfire restaurant on West Erie. Melman, founder and chairman of Lettuce Entertain You, is a big backer of Pollak—as is Melman’s partner and general counsel, Jay Steiber, who introduced Dershowitz and Pollak at the event.

… (When I talked to Schakowsky later that day) Schakowsky asked me, “Did my name come up [at the luncheon]?” “Did Dershowitz endorse my opponent?” “How many people were there?” Yes and yes, I told her. The main room of the restaurant was packed (220, according to a count from Pollak’s campaign).

She groaned when I mentioned that the best line of Pollak’s speech was, “I’m very proud to have Alan Dershowitz at my fundraiser; she had Helen Thomas at hers.”

To get even more information about Alan Dershowitz, Joel Pollack and Jan Schakowsky, be sure to tune in to Tom Roeser on WLS-AM890 at 8PM on Sunday where his guests include Robert Creamer, husband of Rep. Schakowsky and Dan Sugrue, Republcian candidate for 59th district state House (Lake county).

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