Two months before the primary, one of the democratic candidates for Illinois Attorney General is visiting the Quad Cities.
State Senator Kwame Raoul from Chicago met with local residents and elected officials Thursday morning in Rock Island, and planned to have lunch with labor leaders. He'll hold a meet and greet event Thursday night at 5:30 in downtown Rock Island at Roosters (2130 3rd Avenue).
Raoul was first appointed to the Illinois Senate in 2004 to take the place of Barack Obama when Obama won a seat in the US Senate. He is one of eight democrats who'll square off in the March primary for attorney general.
The others are former governor Pat Quinn, Sharon Fairley, former head of COPA, Chicago’s police oversight agency, state Representative Scott Drury from the Chicago suburbs, former Illinois State Board of Education Chairman Jesse Ruiz, Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering, former assistant U.S. attorney Renato Mariotti, and one of Rod Blagojevich’s former attorneys, Aaron Goldstein.
