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Article: Pucinski, Braun big high campaign costs
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 9, 1988
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Aurelia Pucinski and Carol Moseley Braun said Friday they expect
to spend $200,000 and $125,000, respectively, in their campaigns for
Cook County office.
Pucinski, the endorsed Democratic candidate in the March 15
primary for clerk of Circuit Court, and Braun, on the same slate for
recorder of deeds, decried the size of their campaign budgets, but
said they had calculated their needs stringently.
"It's outrageous, but that's what it takes," Braun said.
Pucinski, now a Sanitary District commissioner, seeks an office
that pays $55,000 a year. Braun, a state representative who was
legislative floor leader for the late Mayor Harold Washington, is
bidding for a job paying $50,000.
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