Personal PAC funnels pro-abortion dollars to anti-abortion candidates

Personal PAC has successfully raised and invested near $3 million dollars over the past 20 years to make the Illinois General Assembly one of the most pro-abortion state legislatures in the country.  Illinois continues to have no restrictions on abortion, including no parental notification, no restrictions on taxpayer funding of abortions, no implemented ban on partial birth or late term abortions, and only a weak state policy to protect babies born alive.  It's not easy to track where Personal PAC dollars have gone, and its near impossible to assess so called "in kind" contributions to candidates who've committed to protecting abortion rights.

In years past, Personal PAC dollars helped Barack Obama gain his State Senate seat.  For the most part, Democrats are the recipients of Personal PAC funds.  But even though the IL GOP's platform clearly defines the party as pro-life, pro-abortion Republicans have received hundreds of thousands of Personal PAC dollars over the past two decades.

The largest Republican House recipient of Personal PAC dollars over the years is northern suburbs' Mark Beaubien, with close to $100,000.  Thousands of those dollars have simply passed through Beaubien's treasury to fellow Republicans, placing him in a fairly influential place within the caucus.  Beaubien and fellow Republican House members Minority Leader Tom Cross, Rosemary Mulligan, Elizabeth Coulson, Sid Mathias, Suzie Bassi, Carolyn Krause, Sandy Cole, Brent Hassert, Sandra Pihos and Patricia Lindner have all received varying amounts of campaign donations from Personal PAC.

In the Illinois Senate, the only Republican listed as a recipient of Personal PAC campaign funds is State Senator Christine Radogno, having received nearly $40,000 over the years she's been in office. Radogno is the current frontrunner to succeed Senate Minority Leader Frank Watson, who will not be seeking the leadership position again next year.