Thursday, January 28, 2010

Quinn defends taking $24k interest payments from Senate campaign fund

Gov. Pat Quinn said today he would soon close a campaign account from his losing 1996 U.S. Senate race that has paid him $24,000 in interest. 

fund alive by pumping in a series of personal loans and then soliciting political donations so he can pay himself back, at interest rates approaching 10 percent

Dan Hynes, Quinn's Democratic challenger for governor, called the Quinn Senate fund "very peculiar."  "I really can't understand why it happened, how it happened and what the explanation is,"

Click on the following for more details:  Clout St: Quinn defends taking interest payments from Senate campaign fund

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