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Article: Blair Hull keeps his hand in politics via Democracy Alliance
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 14, 2006
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SUN VALLEY, Idaho -- Blair Hull is keeping a hand in politics,
though at a vastly scaled-down level from his days as a $29 million
self-funded Senate candidate and a mega-donor to Illinois candidates.
With other wealthy contributors, Hull is now part of an innovative
group focusing on ways to invest money to create social and political
change rather than just writing big checks to groups.
Hull, who lost the 2004 Illinois Senate Democratic primary to Sen.
Barack Obama -- at one point he was the front-runner -- lives in Sun
Valley most of the time now. He still keeps a home in Chicago, where
his firm is based, and commutes back about once a month.
I traveled to Sun Valley for a journalism ...