Illinois State Representative Ellis Levin mailed a fund-raising letter that claimed he’d won special recognition by Chicago magazine. He had indeed. The magazine called him “one of the state’s ten worst legislators.”
A legislator's fund-raising letter claimed special recognition from a magazine—which had named him one of the state's ten worst.
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