Southwest Side lawmaker (from Chicago) to monitor Iraq elections



Posted by Ray Long at 9:30 p.m.

SPRINGFIELD --- A state lawmaker from Chicago is headed to Iraq to monitor critical elections on March 7 as one of nine elected women from across the United States.

Rep. Susana Mendoza, 37, is part of a mission in conjunction with the National Foundation for Women Legislators and the U.S. Department of State to travel to Baghdad.

The Southwest Side lawmaker is working to move her legislation through Illinois House committees this week before the trip.

Mendoza plans to return to Springfield in time for Gov. Pat Quinn's budget presentation March 10, which she says "may remind me a little bit of Baghdad."


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