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Former state senator Melinda Bush has won an appointment to the Metra Board of Directors, and a $15,000 stipend to supplement her semi-retirement from political life, over the objections of Lake County Republicans who cried political patronage. Bush founded the Lake County Democratic Women, and at least eight Democrats on the Lake County Board took thousands in donations from the PAC.