What qualifications does Roland Burris have to be a US senator?”
According to The New York Times, Roland W. Burris is a Chicago lawyer and consultant who has served as attorney general (1990) and state comptroller of Illinois (1978), becoming the highest-ranking African-American official to be elected to state office. He has run for governor twice, in 1994 and 1998. He attended Southern Illinois University in the 1950s and Howard Law School. http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2009/jan/03/disputed-senate-seats-caroline-kennedys-roland/ Some additional tidbits: Nomination Bids Burris, 71, has lost bids in a series of Democratic primaries ranging from Chicago mayor to governor and U.S. senator. His most recent campaign was an unsuccessful race for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2002, which he lost to Blagojevich. Burris then served as vice-chair of Blagojevich’s transition team. After Burris lost the gubernatorial pri
