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Fri Mar 13, 2020, 07:17 AM Mar 2020

State's attorney candidate debate gets heated as Kim Foxx's rivals go after her -- and one another

With just five days until Election Day and voters distracted by the coronavirus, the four candidates for Cook County state’s attorney met Thursday evening for a raucous, freewheeling television debate that at times seemed more like a WWE wrestling bout.

Incumbent Kim Foxx took her share of verbal body slams over Jussie Smollett and other familiar topics, but her three Democratic Primary rivals seemed just as intent on putting one another in headlocks.

In one particularly heated exchange, former prosecutors Donna More and Bill Conway mixed it up after More insisted Conway hadn’t handled any felony cases.

“What are you talking about? You haven’t been in the State’s Attorney’s Office for 30 years now,” Conway fired back.

Read more: https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/3/12/21177818/states-attorney-candidate-debate-foxx-conway-fioretti-more-wttw

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