Judy Cates is running aggressive, inappropriate and very misleading campaign advertisements against Supreme Court nominee Justice David Overstreet through TV, printed, and radio accusing him of allowing a child sex offender to freely roam our communities making them unsafe.
Radio personality and Republican candidate for state Senate Bob Romanik said on air today that he didn't "give a damn" about action the county GOP organization took last week in condemning his candidacy.
BELLEVILLE – St. Clair County Republican chairwoman Barbara Viviano said only incumbent Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner can defeat Democrat contender J.B. Pritzker this November and that Rauner’s Republican challenger Jeanne Ives is unelectable.
Cates Swansea attorney Judy Cates raised more than 10 times the amount of campaign contributions as her Republican opponent for the Fifth District Appellate Court in the same three month period, records show.
Callis Three of the four candidates seeking retention to the Madison County bench raised a combined total of about $22,000 between April 1 and June 30, campaign contribution records show.
Freeman SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Supreme Court has unanimously reversed two lower court decisions that kept a St. Clair County Republican candidate off the ballot in the November 2010 election.
Wisnasky-Bettorf A St. Clair County Republican whose bid for a county-wide office was thwarted by a Democratic opponent will have her grievance heard during oral arguments at the Illinois Supreme Court on Sept. 20.
Wisnasky-Bettorf Republican Whitney Wisnasky-Bettorf of O'Fallon, who tried but failed to get on a St. Clair County-wide ballot in November, has something in common with Democrat mayoral hopeful Rahm Emanuel of Chicago.
Plummer Pollsters in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada overestimated, underestimated and generally missed the mark when it came to predicting presidential primary races.
St. Clair County Republican Central Committee Chairman Bill Zychelwicz accused St. Clair County Clerk Bob Delaney of "blatant and brazen" electioneering.
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.
