Local Democrat organizations have benefited from big money flowing from candidate for governor J.B. Pritzker who has invested $104 million of his personal wealth into election efforts this season.
Washington Park mayoral candidate Terrilyn Gossett claims that manipulation of mail-in ballots is a pervasive problem that has been going on for years and one that marginalizes her impoverished community.
St. Clair County Clerk Tom Holbrook said that in spite of a few complaints of Republican votes turning into Democrat ones at voting machines at the county administration building, all are functioning properly.
Sprague The man who allegedly injured attorney Robert Sprague and his wife, St. Clair County Auditor Patty Sprague, has still not answered a lawsuit filed against him in October 2009.
Belleville attorney Robert J. Sprague and his wife, St. Clair County Auditor Patty A. Sprague, have filed suit against a driver who they say failed to yield to them at a stop sign.
The St. Clair County Democratic Central Committee raised $156,079 in the first half of 2006, according to records filed with the Illinois State Board of Elections. And even though the committee spent more than that in six months, it ended a recent reporting period with $27,524.43 on hand.
Steve Reeb (left) and Mark Kern during a pre-election debate. Approximately one-fifth of the money raised by the St. Clair County Democratic Central Committee during the last campaign disclosure reporting period was spent on East St. Louis precinct committeemen, days before the general election, Nov. 2.
US Attorney of the Southern District of Illinois Ronald J. Tenpas annouces charges handed down by the grand jury "Public office is a public trust, in turn public office confers on those who hold it, the highest obligations to obey the law," United States Attorney Ronald J. Tenpas stated as he announced the indictments of East St. Louis public officials on Jan. 21.
