“We were in the same political family,” former Illinois Senate President Emil Jones Jr. says. “We were able to elect a county commissioner, we were able to elect state reps, senators and it all came out of that organization.”
An internal power squabble that briefly turned public and ugly had already resolved before Saturday’s meeting to elect a new chair to lead the Illinois Democratic Party for the next four years. But the fight hung over the meeting at Springfield’s largest union hall as U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly accepted her ouster as head of the state party an organization that had, for years, largely been another fundraising tool for longtime Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan.
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Ex-state Sen. Thomas Cullerton could face a prison sentence for pocketing more than a quarter of a million dollars in salary and benefits from the Teamsters union despite doing little or no work.
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