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Illinois House Republican Leader TOM CROSS is?going to extremes to put?some distance between?himself and Chicago?Democrats.
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How else to explain?that an Oct. 8 fundraiser?for Citizens to Elect Tom?Cross is being billed as ?a?day of golf in Michigan??and will take place at The?Lost Dunes Golf Club in?Bridgman, Mich.?The basic ticket is?$1,500, although $25,000?event sponsorships also?are available.?Perhaps the event will?calm down any members?of Cross?s party who might?be involved in tense elections.
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As the course website states, ?Lost Dunes is?an idyllic retreat from the?pressures of city life.??Because of Lost Dunes??limited, exclusive membership,? it adds, ?tee times?are never required. On?most days, members will?never encounter other?golfers during their round,?encouraging players to relish the tranquility and focus singularly on each?shot.?
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The course has a limit of 300 members. The?member providing access to the Cross fundraiser is JOE PERRINO, CEO?of Woodridge-based Home?Run Inn, his daughter and?company marketing director GINA BOLGER con?rmed. Home Run Inn has?eight pizza restaurants in?
the Chicago area and sells?frozen pizza in 28 states.
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The Cross committee had about $658,000?on hand as of June 30?and has raised at least?$330,000 since then.
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Reinhart joins?private ?rm
JIM REINHART, 45, former chief of staf ?at the Illinois Department of Corrections, has left state?government and now?works for a company that?
provides health-care services at jails and prisons.
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He said he is a regional operator for Pittsburgh-based Wexford Health?Sources. Reinhart still?lives in Spring?eld, and?travels about three days a?week. He said he goes to?states where the company?already has contracts. In?Illinois, he said, Wexford?provides services to adult?prisons across the state?and has done so for more?than a decade.?
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Reinhart joined Spring?eld city government?under Mayor KAREN?HASARA and eventually?became director of public?works. His top staff ?job at?corrections ended in early 2010, and he moved to?the Illinois Department of?Transportation. When he?left earlier this summer,?he was bureau chief of?business services, making?$99,336 annually.
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Reinhart is also a member and vice president?of the Spring?eld Metro?Sanitary District, which?pays $6,000 annually.
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Mayville back?with state
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TONY MAYVILLE is?back to being director of?mine safety for the Illinois?Department of Natural?Resources, after working?for about three months in?Arlington, Va., as a deputy assistant secretary of?the U.S. Department of?Labor.
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Mayville, 57, of Dubois said it was an ?amazing honor? to be offered?the federal job, which had?him being assistant director of the U.S. Mine?
Safety and Health Administration. He was an?underground coal miner for 28 years before getting into state government. The federal job paid?
$150,000, up from the?$97,368 he makes at the?state.
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But Mayville said it was?tough for both him and?his wife to leave the family?in southern Illinois.
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?I?m not a city guy ??and Arlington and D.C.?together is pretty massive,? he told me recently. ?I realized that the only way to make my family?
happy was for me to come?back to the state and live?here by the kids and the?grandkids.?
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Mayville?s state office is?in Benton.
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Bunch heads?Northend Democrats
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Sangamon County?Board member CLYDE?BUNCH, D-District 21,?was recently elected president of the Northend?Democratic Club. He took?
the place of ROSE RUZIC,?who decided against running for re-election to that?post after being named?to the Sangamon County?Board?s District 19 seat.?Other Northend Democratic Club officers are?RICK SHUSTER, ?rst vice?president; GARY BUDD?(who is also Spring?eld?
Township supervisor),?second vice president; TONY SCHUERING, third?vice president; CHERRIL?GRAFF, secretary; and?MATT BERRY, treasurer.?
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The election was in July.
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Bunch, who is unopposed for another term on?the county board, believes?he is the longest-serving?Democratic officeholder in the county?s history ? going on 34 years. He?was also longtime president of the old Southeast?Democrats.
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Bernard Schoenburgis political columnist for?The State Journal-Register. He can be reached at788-1540 or follow him?via twitter.com/bschoenburg. His email address is?bernard.schoenburg@sj-r.com.
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