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In fundraising race, Lisa Madigan outpaces Quinn

April 16, 2013
Northwest Herald

SPRINGFIELD – Considering how she dismantled her opponents in the last two elections, three-term Attorney General Lisa Madigan's impressive fundraising in the first three months of this year suggests she's looking to broaden her horizons – with, for example, a bid for governor in 2014.

Madigan reported raising $831,000 in the first quarter of 2013, eclipsing what she raised in all of last year and in the first six months of 2009, when she was last gearing up for a statewide race....

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Chicago Sun-Times

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The FOID disclosure opinion is not about anyone’s right to own a firearm, but rather, about the right of all Illinoisans – those who own guns as well as those who do not – to have access to information gathered by their own government and subject to disclosure under provisions of the state’s Freedom of Information Act.



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