Chicago Democratic Machine Backs Gun Banning State's Attorney Candidate

Gun banning Democratic candidate for Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alverez is being embraced financially by the Chicago Democratic Machine.The Chicago Reader reports:

It’s clearly nice to be a Democrat in Cook County. After winning the primary as a rookie unknown, Alvarez has received at least $126,650 from political players and groups like incumbent state’s attorney Dick Devine; former sheriff Michael Sheahan; aldermen Richard Mell, William Banks, George Cardenas, and Ed Burke; Burke’s wife, Illinois Appellate Court judge Anne Burke; state senator James DeLeo; primary opponent and county commissioner Larry Suffredin; county assessor Jim Houlihan; mayoral brothers Michael and William Daley; and labor organizations including SEIU, the Chicago Federation of Labor, AFSCME, and the United Food and Commercial Workers. A handful of suburban GOP groups and some trade organizations have pitched in $8,395 for Peraica.

We'll correct the Chicago Reader,Anne Burke is now a justice on the Illinois Supreme Court.No conflict of interest here? An Illinois Supreme Court justice donating money to a State's Attorney candidate? For more on Anne Burke.For a look at Alderman Burke.