Mar 17, 2018 · Rauner has said he "personally recruited" Harold to run for the seat being vacated by Democrat Attorney General Lisa Madigan, an endorsement that's provided Grasso with …
Mar 17, 2018 · Rauner has said he “personally recruited” Harold to run for the seat being vacated by Democrat Attorney General Lisa Madigan, an endorsement that’s provided Grasso with …
Aug 04, 2018 · Erika Harold will face Kwame Raoul in the Illinois Attorney General election in November. (Photo courtesy Facebook Erika Harold/Kwame Raoul) By Howard Packowitz BLOOMINGTON – The Republican...
Another one of Governor Bruce Rauner’s political allies is in hot water, and Rauner’s dodging the tough questions. NBC Chicago reported in a disturbing story that Governor Bruce Rauner’s hand-picked Attorney General candidate, Erika Harold, reportedly told Miss Illinois judges she would rather have a foster child grow up in an abusive ...
Attorney General Kwame RaoulAttorney General Kwame Raoul (Democrat) was sworn in as the 42nd Attorney General of Illinois in January 2019. Born in Chicago to Haitian immigrants, Raoul brings a lifetime of legal and policy experience, advocacy and public service to the Office of the Attorney General.
46), the General Assembly provided for an interim appointment of the Attorney General by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, until the following election for Governor, at which time the Attorney General was to be elected by the qualified electors of the State to a four year term.
The current attorney general is Democrat Kwame Raoul. Raoul was first elected to the office in 2018 and was sworn in January 14, 2019.
State Attorneys GeneralAttorneys general are the top legal officers of their state or territory. They advise and represent their legislature and state agencies and act as the “People's Lawyer” for the citizens. Most are elected, though a few are appointed by the governor.
The average salary earned by U.S. governors was $131,115....State executive salaries.Office and current officialSalaryAttorney General of Illinois Kwame Raoul$160,800/yearIllinois Secretary of State Jesse White$156,5417 more rows
Incumbent. Kwame Raoul The Illinois Attorney General is the highest legal officer of the state of Illinois in the United States.
Kim FoxxCook County State's AttorneyState's Attorney of Cook CountyIncumbent Kim Foxx since December 1, 2016Term length4 yearsSalary$192,789 (2014)WebsiteOffice of the Cook County State's Attorney
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In October 2013, Rauner announced that his running mate would be Wheaton City Councilwoman Evelyn Sanguinetti.
On June 20, 2016, Rauner confirmed that he would run for a second term; he formally announced his re-election campaign on October 23, 2017. In the Republican primary, Rauner faced State Representative Jeanne Ives, who ran against him from the political right.
Before being elected governor, Rauner resided in Winnetka, Illinois, with his wife, Diana Mendley Rauner, and family; they have three children. He also has three children from his first marriage, to Elizabeth Konker Wessel, whom he married in 1980, separated from in 1990, and was legally divorced from in 1993.
Rauner had made a priority to fully funded education for the first time in years, increasing K-12 education funding by nearly $1 billion, and increasing early childhood education funding to historic levels. In 2017, Rauner signed Senate Bill 1947, which moved Illinois to an "evidence-based model" of education funding, taking into account each district's individual needs, as well as its local revenue sources, when appropriating state aid – prioritizing districts that are furthest from being fully funded. The new law created a scholarship plan that earmarked up to $75 million for scholarship tax credits. Lawmakers said those credits would go to low- and middle-income parents, impacting roughly 6,000 private school students whose families make less than $73,000 per year. The new law created the first revision in two decades of the way general state-aid dollars to schools were distributed, establishing a multifaceted procedure for determining need and setting a goal for "adequacy" of funding in each of the state's 852 school districts. The bill received praise from the Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald, and Chicago Sun-Times, along with numerous civic organizations.
Additionally, Rauner said that the state should ban some political contributions by public unions, saying , "government unions should not be allowed to influence the public officials they are lobbying, and sitting across the bargaining table from, through campaign donations and expenditures".
The Rauner family has donated "thousands of dollars" to Planned Parenthood, and prior to his 2014 campaign, the Rauner Family Foundation donated $510,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union 's Roger Baldwin Foundation.
Rauner said that he supported automatic voter registration, but that he vetoed the bill because he was worried that "the bill would inadvertently open the door to voter fraud and run afoul of federal election law". On August 28, 2017, Rauner signed a revised version of the automatic voter registration bill.
Texas GOP Chair Allen West and Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller sued Abbott in September for extending early voting periods due to Covid-19. At the time, West said he opposed “extension of early voting through the decree of a single executive.”.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) got an endorsement Tuesday from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the 2022 governor’s race after The New York Times quoted Paxton saying he didn’t support Abbott, in the latest occurrence of Texas Republicans publicly criticizing each other.
The Texas attorney general has also been under indictment for over five years on securities fraud allegations, and said in November he knows “a little something about being falsely accused.”. Abbott said the FBI investigation raised “serious concerns.”.