“We got two sodas, two popcorn and a candy. “He has unnecessarily burdened court resources and taxpayer dollars with frivolous and unsuccessful lawsuits.”Īs he was seeking the school board seat in Hillsboro in 2017, DeVore took to Facebook to express dissatisfaction with his experience at the school concession stand, court records show. DeVore has turned to the courts to settle personal scores,” Raoul said in a statement.
Raoul, whose office defended Pritzker against DeVore’s defamation allegations, criticized his opponent’s use of litigation. His only prior experience in elected office was a single two-year term on the Bond County Board a decade ago. An outspoken critic of Pritzker and Raoul, as well as the state’s GOP establishment, DeVore has focused much of his campaign on the issues of crime and political corruption, along with continued critiques of the governor’s handling of COVID-19. Before mounting his challenges to Pritzker’s executive orders during the heights of the pandemic, he focused primarily on civil litigation, including property disputes and family law, he told the Tribune in May. “It runs a real risk of him looking frivolous and not serious as somebody who’s now running for attorney general and so would be supervising state attorneys throughout the state of Illinois,” said Benjamin Bricker, an associate professor of political science and law at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.ĭeVore, 53, a small-town attorney who has the words “liberty” and “freedom” tattooed on his forearms, received his law degree from Saint Louis University and was admitted to the Illinois bar in 2011.
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