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Joe Birkett and Mike Noonan appeared on Sunday’s Political Shootout, on AM890. The host of the radio show said, " It was one of the best debates held in the current season and shows graphically how Joe Birkett is, as a running mate, developing into a first-tier help for Judy Baar Topinka. Probably Birkett is helping her more than any other lieutenant governor candidate-because he is supplying the authentic conservative edge to a governor candidate who is far beyond the social policy mainstream." It seems that Birkett is definitely the favorite republican running for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. He could even be the favorite to win the election for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, in the upcoming elections. The radio host on the political radio program, and most political analysts in Illinois also think that Birkett joining with Judy Barr Topinka as running mates is helping her more, than it is helping him. Which usually is not the case in most situations, just because she is running for more of a "larger title", position. A listener also called into the radio station and asked Birkett, about the scandal he was involved in with Rolando Cruz last year. Birkett handled the question smoothly, in the most professional way it could have been handled.