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Article: Pucinski will leave clerk's office a winner
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 1, 1999
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Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Aurelia M. Pucinski has decided
not to seek re-election in 2000 but intends to serve out her term,
which expires a year from December, according to Republican sources.
Pucinski, 52, who cleaned up an office tainted by scandal and
corruption, switched from the Democratic to the Republican party to
make an unsuccessful bid for Cook County board president last year.
She has a standing offer to join Gov. Ryan's administration, but she
is more likely to return to the practice of law.
She would have been a formidable candidate for a fourth term as
clerk. Pucinski won three terms by lopsided margins. But that was as
a Democrat, and a Republican has never been elected ...