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Rich Whitney (born April 21, 1955) is an Illinois politician and civil rights attorney who was the Illinois Green Party's nominee for Governor of Illinois in the elections of 2006 and 2010. During the 2006 campaign Whitney received endorsements from several newspapers, including the ''Rockford Register Star'',〔Garcia, John. (【引用サイトリンク】url= http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/politics&id=4715863 ) ABC7 News, Wednesday, November 1, 2006〕 ''Southwest News-Herald'',〔 ''The Southwest News-Herald'', Thursday, November 2, 2006〕 and ''State School News Service''.〔 ''The State School News Service'', Thursday, October 23, 2006〕 In that year's election Whitney received 361,336 votes for 10.4% of the vote, a relatively strong finish for a third party.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2006&off=5&elect=0&fips=17&f=0 ) uselectionatlas.org〕 In the 2010 election his share of the vote was 2.7%.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2010&off=5&elect=0&fips=17&f=0 ) uselectionatlas.org〕 ==Personal history== Whitney was born in Connecticut in 1955 and lives in Carbondale, Illinois. He is a civil rights attorney with degrees from Michigan State University and Southern Illinois University's School of Law. He was a member of the Socialist Labor Party from 1975–1993 and at one point edited "The People," the party's national newspaper. He resigned from the party in 1993 and no longer identifies with socialism.〔 〕〔()〕 Whitney was involved in nationwide legal battles to regulate tobacco advertising, on behalf of the public health community, including the American Medical Association, the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association and Public Citizen. Whitney also is one of the founding members of the Illinois Green Party and wrote a significant portion of the Party's platform.
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