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Oh Lord...The candidate of organized labor in the 2010 Illinois Senate race, Alexi Giannoulias, will announce at a press conference on Sunday that he wants to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Act. Former State Senator Steve Rauschenberger endorsed Republican gubernatorial Dan Proft this morning on 890 AM WLS' Don and Roma show. Rauschenberger's endorsement gives a cold shoulder to Illinois Senate colleagues Bill Brady and Kirk Dillard, who are also running for governor.
Rauschenberger himself is struggling through one of this' [...]
Cullerton Downplays Plan To Add Slots At Horse Tracks
Illinois Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) is expressing skepticism about a proposal to transfer thousands of slot machines from towns that have banned video gaming to horse tracks across the state. Instead, Cullerton says he's setting [...]
Cullerton: State Lawmakers Have No Gitmo Control
Illinois Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) says the General
Assembly has no formal control over the decision to relocate Guantanamo
Bay detainees to an Illinois prison. While a committee could review the proposal, any vote would be advisory.
WASHINGTON--Illinois Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) met with members of the Illinois congressional delegation on Thurday on a trip here that included a fund-raiser Wednesday night for the state senate political committee.
I caught up with Cullerton, his wife Pam, state Sen. Dan Kotowski (D-Park Ridge) and [...]
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