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Thursday, April 25
Last night, Illinois Republicans announced that they've narrowed their Senate candidate search to two candidates. There's Andrea Grubb Barthwell, a former deputy director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy who contributed to the Democratic party until 2001. (One GOP strategist, upon hearing that Barthwell was near the top of the list, was quoted by the Sun-Times as responding, "Are you f