Campaign Contributors Get Last-Minute Extras; Legislators Add $29 Million in Grants to State Budget

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SPRINGFIELD (AP) - Lawmakers spent months arguing over how to cut state spending to close a multibillion-dollar budget gap, but in the final days of negotiations, they tacked on $29 million in special grants that, so far, have largely gone to groups tied to more than $2 million in campaign donations.

Some of those groups have important politicians as members. Others are in districts where lawmakers face tough re-election bids.

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Campaign Contributors Get Last-Minute Extras; Legislators Add $29 Million in Grants to State Budget

Many are not-for-profit groups that donated to politicians, a practice generally prohibited for them. Info...

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