74:. This north side district has a notorious reputation for pre-selecting its office holders rather than electing them and Ronen’s resignation was timed to keep the tradition alive. With just 7 days left to collect signatures, the Elder campaign collected and filed its nominating petitions, forcing the first contested primary in the district in nearly than forty years. Faced with an unexpected primary race, Ronen was forced to re-resign, changing the effective date of her resignation from January 2008 to after the primary election on February 5, 2008. Ronen went on to take a short but lucrative appointment with former Governor Rod Blagojevich but resigned for a third time after a brief 8-week appointment that increased Ronen’s lifetime pension benefits by more than $ 1 million.
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While attending second grade with her daughter, Elder built a statewide network of more than 3,000 affected families, and negotiated more than 200 Section 504 plans for families in crisis. She drafted legislation and secured support from key legislators including House
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