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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 Southwest News-Herald and State School News Service. In that year’s election Whitney received 361336 votes for 10.4% of the vote a relatively strong finish for a third party.
