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Article: Anti-violence group says Hull should drop out of Senate race
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 2, 2004
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M. Blair Hull should withdraw from the Democratic Senate race
because of allegations that he verbally and physically abused his
wife in 1998, a statewide anti-violence group said Monday.
"You can't abuse women with one hand and ask for their vote with
the other," said Polly Poskin, executive director of the Illinois
Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
The allegations against Hull were made public last week after he
and former wife Brenda Sexton asked a judge to unseal their divorce
file.
Hull continued Monday to dodge questions about whether he struck
or threatened Sexton, saying he does not want to "re-litigate" his
divorce.
He stressed that "this is not an issue of domestic violence, I ...