Much of judicial candidate ShawnTe Raines-Welch’s campaign cash comes thanks to the largesse of Democratic elected officials who work under the political leadership of her husband, Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch.
ShawnTe Raines-Welch, an attorney running for judge on the Democratic ticket, has vastly outraised her opponents in the obscure race for a newly created Cook County subcircuit court seat.
State Rep. Greg Harris, who is retiring after this term, said his campaign transferred the money to Raines-Welch simply because Welch asked him. “We’re friends, independent of Chris Welch. I just believe in her personally and believe in having Black women as judges,” Evans said. Indeed, Welch has vowed to have a more open and transparent style of leadership than his predecessor, the disgraced longtime former Speaker Michael Madigan.
Raines-Welch is a 2009 graduate of John Marshall Law School and is currently a partner at the law firm Ancel Glink, which specializes in representing municipal governments in litigation. Her husband is a former partner but has worked “of counsel” at the firm since becoming House speaker. reported last month that she had received a $10,000 donation from a hospital company that benefited from a change in state law pushed by her husband. That law paved the way for the company to reopen the shuttered Westlake Hospital in Melrose Park. Raines-Welch subsequently returned that donation, acknowledging that it was illegal thanks to a law banning donations to judicial campaigns from out-of-state companies.
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