[1]Voting While Black

Hey John,

With just 10 days left, Kim Foxx is tied in the Cook County State’s
Attorney race with a billionaire’s son funded by Republicans and Trump
donors. 

Foxx’s opponent is named Bill Conway, and he’s been spending millions of
his father’s money to run attack ads against Kim Foxx all over Chicago and
Cook County. These ads are impacting voters, and it’s making us nervous
that this race is getting very close. 

[ [link removed] ]John, we don’t have millions to outspend Conway, but we have
people like you.  Will you rush your first $5 donation to our work today
so we can launch digital ads and send out volunteers to combat Conway’s
attacks?

Bill Conway has offered no platform for changing criminal justice-- in
fact, he’s said he wants to walk back the improvements Kim Foxx has made.
Here’s what we know about him:

* Conway has received over $10 million in campaign contributions from
his father and other executives at the Carlyle Group.^1 The Carlyle
Group is an investment firm that has profited from arms deals in the
Iraq War, tear gas used on protestors in Ferguson, MO, and mass
incarceration of Black people and ICE detention centers.^2,3,4

* Conway has not worked a full-time job related to the criminal justice
system in Chicago since 2012. Instead he’s focused on working as an
investment banker at JP Morgan and teaching at a business school.^5

* Conway’s campaign has taken donations from major Republican donors,
including some who are also funding Trump’s re-election campaign.^6

It’s up to us to make sure people know the truth about Bill Conway.
[ [link removed] ]Help us spread the truth by chipping in $5 to launch the urgent digital
ads and volunteers we need to reach thousands of people!

In contrast to the privileged life of Bill Conway, Kim Foxx grew up in the
Cabrini Green projects, and has seen the racism and injustice of the
criminal legal system impact her own family. 

She is the only person in this race who has done real work to change that
injustice, decreasing the prison population while crime rates still
decreased.^7

She is the only one who can say that she’s changed over 1000 people’s
lives who were targeted by racist marijuana charges.^8

She is the only one who can say that she’s cleared the names of 94 people
who were wrongfully convicted by corrupt police officers.^9

The next 10 days are our last chance. If we can get thousands of voters
the truth about Kim Foxx’s transformative work and Bill Conway’s lies, we
can win 4 more years of real justice for the people of Cook County.  

[ [link removed] ]Please, John, rush a $5 donation so we can reach thousands
of people with digital ads and volunteer outreach before Election Day. 

[ [link removed] ]Rush a donation now

Thank you for standing with us and Kim Foxx in this crucial moment for
Black people, and the entire community in Cook County. 

Until justice is real,

Arisha, Jenni, Drew, Calyssa, Audrey, Charles, Tammi, Cristel, Daniel,
Alex, Scotty and the Color Of Change PAC team

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Sources:

 1. "Friends of Bill Conway", Illinois Sunshine,
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 2. "Investing in War", The Center for Public Integrity, 19 May 2014,
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 3. "Neighbors of rural tear gas manufacturing plant resent explosions,
but embrace jobs", 90.5 WESA, 30 August 2018,
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 4. "Booz Allen Hamilton is making millions working with ICE", VICE News,
1 November 2019,
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 5. The Conway Files, [ [link removed] ][link removed]
 6. #CancelConway, [ [link removed] ][link removed]
 7. "Report: Incarceration Rates Drop Nearly 20% Under Kim Foxx", WTTW,
30 July 2019,
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 8. "Chicago's top prosecutor tosses out more than 1000 marijuana
convictions ahead of state legalization law", The Root, 13 December
2019, [ [link removed] ][link removed]
 9. "Prosecutors have thrown out nearly 100 convictions tied to 'rogue'
Chicago cop", USA Today, 11 Feb 2020,
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