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The comments were vowingto stymie any efforts laterdescribed by GOP by U.s. Attorney General House Speaker Paul Ryan as Jeff Sessions to crack down racist. on medical cannabis sales "I look forward to being already being rung up the first Mexican-American across the state. attorney general' Ruiz said. "Don't decriminalize. ALEX NITKINIPIONEER PRESS "And if you think judge Don't go halfway. Don'tThe eight Democratic candidates for Illinois attorney general participate in a forum Jan.14 at Grace Lutheran Church in Gonzalo Curiel bothered investigateit,"saidcivil Evanston. Republican candidates Erika Harold and Gary Grasso declined to attend, organizers said. Trump, wait until you get rights attorney and law pro- Jesse Umberto Ruiz ... I'm fessor Aaron Goldstein, Organized by the Na- victed of a felony, accordingtroubled police departmentlong said. "Between howgoingto drive him out of his who is running for the posttionalOrganization for to state law. in the country." strongly they emphasized mind." "Illinoisneeds to showWomen and Action for a "As a lawyer, if someone "I've proven that I havecriminal justice and how The forum's organizers some courage and legalizeBetter Tomorrow, a prog-has a complaint about me,the capability to hold themuch they talked aboutsaid they had the president this right now, and we needressive activist group thatthey can go ... and have mypowerful accountable,"protecting communities ofto thank for the crowded to stand up to (Presidentformed in the wake of thelicense pulled' Raoul said.Fairley said. color, it feels like there's not stage and the hundreds of Donald) Trump. 2016 election, the forum"We should have the same Highland Park Mayor really a middle-of-the-roadspectators who packed the The candidates' answersrepeatedly circled back tostandard for those whoNancy Rotering said she Democrat in there." church sanctuary of Grace to the final question askedreports that Trump made a carry deadly force." would use the office to take State Rep. Scott Drury Lutheran Church, 1430 at the two-hour forum, held profane reference to Haiti Sharon Fairley alsoon gun manufacturers, hay- D-Highwood, whose 58thSouth Blvd., according to at Grace Lutheran Church,and some African nations in pledged to lean on localing beaten back a lawsuit District includes HighlandMisa Kaplan, the director of echoed their broad agree- a White House meeting Jan.