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Analysis of receipts and
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court in the 2003-2004 election cycle is now available on-line at
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a 2 to 1 margin, find her to be more honest and ethical than either Ken
Blackwell or Jim Petro.

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Blackwell's numbers were
particularly weak. The poll showed that either Strickland or Coleman would
defeat Blackwell by 8 points.

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Supreme Court Contributors Rocket to Top of Illinois' Donors List

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COLUMBUS, Ohio, A recent statewide poll released
today shows that Betty Montgomery is the Republican gubernatorial candidate
most likely to win the 2006 General Election.
"Ohioans want their next Governor to be someone they can trust and
Republicans want to nominate a candidate who can win next November,"
Montgomery said.

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Chamber surpassed them with astonishing speed.

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Chamber
of Commerce has become the largest political donor in Illinois, according to
new figures released by the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform and the
Sunshine Project.S. Chamber, which previously has not made the Donors List, gave
$2,050,000 during the 2003-2004 election cycle, edging out last cycle's leader
the Illinois Education Association for first place.

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"Illinois' 2004 Supreme Court contest has changed the political
landscape," said Cindi Canary, Executive Director of ICPR."

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"New groups
vaulted to the top of the donor list, all as a result of one judicial
election. The race between Republican Lloyd Karmeier and Democrat
Gordon Maag generated more than $9 million in spending, more than seven times
the previous Illinois record and twice the previous national record."
The Sunshine Database was the first in the nation to put state-level
campaign finance data into a searchable on-line format .

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Other new entrants to the Top Donors List include the Illinois Civil
Justice League (#3), a proponent of tort reform , and Justice for All PAC (#4),
which supported the candidate favored by trial lawyers and labor unions .

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Chamber gave the bulk of its money to the Illinois
Republican Party, which spent the funds on the Supreme Court race. And it includes top individual donors as well as lists of the most
expensive elections in state history."
The poll also found that, among likely voters, Montgomery would beat
Democrat candidate Mike Coleman by 7 percentage points and would also defeat
Democrat candidate Ted Strickland by 3 percentage points.

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Full 2003-2004 Campaign Finance Analysis Posted to ilcampaign . "In the
current political environment -- a tough one for Republican candidates --
Betty Montgomery is the most likely of the GOP nominees to be seen as 'ethical
and honest' by nearly a 2-to-1 margin .

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S. Unlike the State Board of Elections
database, the Sunshine Database standardizes the names of all donors and
vendors, codes receipts and expenditures by industry, and includes profiles of
the largest donors.
"Betty Montgomery continues to be the only one of the three candidates
running for the Republican nomination for Governor who can win the election in
November," said Brian Tringali , a partner in The Tarrance Group.

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"Particularly striking is that much of this giving came in the last six
weeks of the campaign, including all of the money from the U. "The IEA, which had
previously topped the List, takes two years to give that sort of money. It now includes
hundreds of thousands of individual contributions and expenditures by hundreds
of candidates for public office. ICPR is a
non-profit, non-partisan public interest group that conducts research and
advocates reforms to promote public participation in government, address the
role of money in politics and encourage integrity, accountability, and
transparency in government.

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The 2004 Supreme Court election shattered national records for spending on
a high court contest. Its goal is to increase public
awareness and understanding of the role of money in Illinois politics.

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The Sunshine Project is based at the University of Illinois at Springfield
and is funded by the Joyce Foundation. The data also
showed that neither Blackwell nor Petro would defeat Coleman and neither
Blackwell nor Petro would beat Strickland.

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CHICAGO and SPRINGFIELD, Ill.S. Chamber ," said
Kent Redfield, Director of the Sunshine Project.
The new data updates the lists of Career Patrons, the top lifetime donors
to all six statewide constitutional officers, and to the four legislative
leaders. The survey, taken by the respected national
Republican polling firm The Tarrance Group, questioned 801 likely Ohio voters.