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Illinois Governor Increases Restrictions On Military Funeral Protests

David Taintor | August 15, 2011, 5:51PM


Gov. Pat Quinn (D-IL)

Anyone who wants to protest a military funeral in Illinois will have to do so from a distance of 300 feet, according to a new measure Gov. Pat Quinn (D) signed on Sunday.

The legislation is an expansion of the "Let Them Rest in Peace Act," one of Quinn's "top initiatives", press secretary Annie Thompson told TPM. The extension expands on the law's previous 200-foot barrier.

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Topics: Illinois, Pat Quinn, Supreme Court, Westboro Baptist Church

Illinois

IL Gov Chief Of Staff Resigns After Ethics Probe Over Emails

Rachel Slajda | August 23, 2010, 9:35AM


IL Gov. Pat Quinn (D)

The Illinois governor's chief of staff resigned yesterday after the state ethics investigator found that he violated ethics rules by sending campaign-oriented emails from his state email address.

In a twist, the investigator, Executive Inspector General James A. Wright, was fired by Gov. Pat Quinn (D) on Aug. 13, the same day Wright released his findings against the chief of staff, Jerry Stermer, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Quinn's office denies that the report against the COS had anything to do with Wright's firing.

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Topics: Illinois, Pat Quinn

Scott Lee Cohen

Illinois Lieut. Gov. Nominee Was Arrested For Domestic Violence

Zachary Roth | February 4, 2010, 10:08AM


IL candidate for Lt. Gov. Scott Lee Cohen (D)

The little-known pawnbroker who won this week's Democratic primary election for Illinois lieutenant governor was arrested in 2005 after his prostitute girlfriend alleged that he put a knife to her throat and pushed her against the wall -- an incident that could create a major headache for Governor Pat Quinn.

Scott Lee Cohen denies that he laid a hand on the woman, and says he didn't know she was a prostitute -- he thought she just worked in a massage parlor.

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Topics: Barack Obama, Pat Quinn, Scott Lee Cohen, Sex

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