Foxx received $29,500 in campaign contributions from a fundraiser hosted by now-indicted Ald. Edward Burke in 2016.
By Rachel Hinton Dec 18, 2019, 3:49pm CST
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Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times file photoCook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is keeping nearly $30,000 in campaign contributions from a 2016 fundraiser hosted by now-indicted 14th Ward Ald. Edward Burke — a departure from the approach taken by her political mentor, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.
Foxx attended the fundraiser at Burke’s Southwest Side home in August 2016, but the two were tightlipped about the details of the event. Foxx’s campaign said it donated the money personally given by Burke and his family to two nonprofit groups.
Sylvia Ewing, a spokeswoman for Foxx’s campaign, said “all of these things are just distractions from the work that [Foxx] is doing: making change and reform to the criminal justice system in her office.”
“The money that came from the Burke family was given to two nonprofit organizations — money collected beyond that was part of her war chest and she doesn’t think that we’ve done anything wrong in keeping the money that was beyond their personal contribution,” Ewing said.
Ewing also said the campaign is “being straight up and candid about how the money was distributed” and there’s not “much more to say beyond that.”
Foxx received $29,500 from donors who also donated to Preckwinkle at a separate fundraiser in 2018, but the board president returned the money she received from those donors after her mayoral campaign was dogged by connections to Burke.
Records from the Illinois State Board of Elections do not show Foxx has returned the contributions she received.
Reliable Materials Lyons LLC is one of those donors. Michael Vondra, who owns the company, had another company, Bluff City Materials Inc., raided by federal agents in September.
During the mayoral race, state Comptroller Susana Mendoza also distanced herself from Burke, whom she considers a political mentor.
It happened after it became known that then-Ald. Danny Solis (25th) wore a wire and recorded more than a dozen conversations with Burke.
Mendoza then purged her campaign coffers of $141,550 in contributions received over the years from Solis and from a debt collection firm founded by Solis’ sister and an attorney with close ties to Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
Records show that after Burke was indicted on corruption charges in January, the state’s attorney donated his $10,000 contribution, splitting the money between the Equal Justice Initiative and the Brian Sleet Memorial Fellowship at Chicago Votes.
When state Sen. Martin Sandoval came under federal scrutiny in September, Foxx donated Sandoval’s $5,000 contribution to her campaign to the Equal Justice Initiative. Foxx has returned other contributions from people or companies who do business with the county or that were in excess of campaign donation amounts, Ewing said.
I'm guessing she knows she has a pretty good chance of losing anyway so this way the 29G's can go to ease her path back into the private sector. She'll need the dough to augment her salary from Harold's Chicken or some Steak & Lemonade joint
ReplyDeleteActually she cant use it after the 1992 campaign reforms. Because her fund was started after 1992 she can return the money, give it to charity or transfer it to another candidate.
DeleteWill Foxx return the donations given by G. Sorros?
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DeleteI hope her opponents run those YouTube videos of the flash mobs looting the downtown stores, knowing the piece of shit won't prosecute them. And I wish the federal government would seize the assets of George Soros for funding and advocating for these groups social upheaval.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately the social justice warriors that make up the media keep things like this under wraps. The truth about these urban savages is contrary to their progressive agenda.
DeleteFoxx donated to the "Equal justice initiative"? Wouldn't that be a conflict of interest ? Foxx is to prosecute criminals under the laws that are written and passed by the legislative body, not circumvent the process and decide that she plays God. I take it she never had a conversation with that non for profit for releasing or going leniant on some dog who deserves prison. This broad is a disgrace and a safety threat to society.
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ReplyDeleteKim "anything buta" Foxx is being funded by Soros. Soros has funded many states attorneys races all across the country, I remember a man once said, the person who controls the laws is more powerful than the person who controls the money.
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