[ISLMA-Share] Political Mailing Printed as Newspaper arrives in Illinois High Schools- Is it in yours?

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Funded by an Illinois elected official and mailed directly to schools?
Have to wonder if States Attorneys and the AG's office will see this as
potentially illegal.



Butch Wilson
Technology Director
Christopher #99 School District
618-724-2631 (Elementary)
(618) 724-9461 (High School)

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On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:05 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Fifty copies of the DuPage Policy Journal arrived at my high school. It's
> sub-heading is "real data, real value, real news," but it's a political
> mailing masked as a newspaper and funded by Governor Rauner and radio show
> host Dan Proft.
>
> The papers <are under different names>, as listed by the Illinois Press
> Association, are Chambana Sun, DuPage Policy Journal, East Central
> Reporter, Kankakee Times, Lake County Gazette, McHenry Times, Metro East
> Sun, North Cook News, Rock Island Today, Sangamon Sun, SW Illinois News,
> West Central Reporter and West Cook News.
> Not included in the IPA's list is the Will County Gazette, but its website
> is nearly identical in layout
> and design to the other papers' websites. It also lists the same
> publisher, Locality Labs (according to
> the Patch article link below).
>
> https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/fake-newspapers-misleading
> -will-dupage-county-residents-state-senator
>
> Thanks,
> Diane Mankowski
> Glenbard South High School
>
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