Monday marked an Illinois State Board of Elections deadline to file a required quarterly report of contributions and expenditures, but a number of primary candidates had not yet filed their reports late Monday.
But does ballot position matter? Some experts say no. “It’s tradition. It’s part of the summer camp aspect of campaigning,” said political science professor Christopher Mooney. “But does it have an impact on average? No, it doesn’t. But again, in an individual case, who’s to say?”
Quivey to serve as acting U.S. attorney
Darren Iozia
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First Assistant Attorney Douglas J. Quivey has been named acting U.S. attorney for the Central District of Illinois, replacing John C. Milhiser, who stepped down.
Quivey, a retired Army and Army Reserve lieutenant colonel, was an assistant federal public defender from 2014 to 2018.
He was in private practice from 1996 to 2014 in Charleston, Urbana and Springfield. Quivey received his law degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and began his legal career as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Richard Mills from 1994 to 1996.
He is a Charleston native.