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State Week: Election Vacation Consternation

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Brian Mackey
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With the election arriving next Tuesday, a handful of candidates and their "dark money" supporters were spending millions of dollars on just a handful of campaigns. Meanwhile, Gov. Bruce Rauner once again went on the attack against Democrats, and university presidents began making a more forceful case for state funding.

This week's guest is Jordan Abudayyeh, Statehouse reporter for WICS-TV in Springfield, with host Sean Crawford and regular panelists Amanda Vinicky, Brian Mackey and Charlie Wheeler.

Brian Mackey hosts The 21st Show and formerly reported on state government.
Amanda Vinicky moved to Chicago Tonight on WTTW-TV PBS in 2017.
The former director of the Public Affairs Reporting (PAR) graduate program is Professor Charles N. Wheeler III, a veteran newsman who came to the University of Illinois at Springfield following a 24-year career at the Chicago Sun-Times.
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