Garfield advocated dismissal of incompetent incumbent appointees.
The presidential appointees could be administration officials or outside experts, but it remained unclear whether all 12 Congressional appointees would be incumbent lawmakers or if some outsiders might be included.
Of course, the senatorial selection process in this case is ultimately dependent on the prudence of the acting Governor, upon whom it is incumbent -- though he himself an appointee be -- to ensure that there is a mandate behind the replacement.
The Salt Lake City race features two-term incumbent Ralph Becker, one of Obama's appointees on a climate change taskforce, and former state lawmaker Jackie Biskupski.
The senate appointee, Frank Smith, had defeated the incumbent in the Republican primary in 1926.
The appointment was usually given to a person who planned to run for the office that November; thus, the interim appointee had the advantage of being an incumbent.
Alexey Navalny, an anti-establishment contender for Moscow mayor, has challenged the incumbent, Sergey Sobianin, one of President Putin's most trusted appointees.
"While one cannot dispute the basis for Congress' concern that an election commission exist not in whole of presidential appointees as a practical matter, it would seem that those who sought to challenge incumbent Congressmen might have equally good reason to fear a Commission which was unduly responsive to members of Congress whom they were seeking to unseat.
At the gubernatorial debate on Wednesday night, incumbent Democratic Governor Pat Quinn accused Brady of holding a secret fundraiser with Blagojevich's deputy governor, Dean Martinez, and Blago appointee Juan Ochoa.
But his campaign line, evoking Jimmy Stewart's aw-shucks Senate appointee in Frank Capra's 1939 film classic "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," played well with conservative voters when he challenged Mr. McGovern, a three-term incumbent.
