* The McLean County Medical Society formed a PAC back in late March and transferred $201,000 out of what appears to be the Society’s operating fund to the PAC on June 23rd. It then contributed $200,000 to Sen. Bill Brady’s campaign on June 30th. Brady is from Bloomington, which is in McLean County. Quite a nice chunk of change there.

* This doesn’t look like a huge deal to me. I think 11th District GOP candidate Adam Kinzinger did a pretty good job explaining the reasoning in the final graf of our excerpt…

In the primary election, Kinzinger’s biography on his website and his news releases said he was serving in the Air Force Special Operations Command. […]

It turns out Kinzinger was detailed to Air Force Special Ops for two three-month stints in 2008 and 2009, but was not permanently assigned to Special Ops, Air Force officials said.

“The way it was worded was incorrect,” Dawn M. Hart, chief of community relations for AFSOC public affairs in Florida, told the Chicago Sun-Times on Saturday. “He only worked for [Air Force Special Operations Command] for those two assignments.” […]

Kinzinger was never disciplined by the Air Force for saying he works for Special Ops. But he changed his website to say that he “has worked for” Special Ops. […]

Changing “is” to “has” on his website was no bigger deal than changing his age from 31 to 32 in February, Kinzinger said.

If there’s more to this than I’m seeing here, then we’ll of course revisit. Your thoughts would be appreciated, however.

* The Tribune wants a new state law to guarantee special elections for vacant US Senate seats, but it does point out a serious problem with the case moving through the federal court system right now, which could force a special Senate election on the state…

Elections officials need 180 days lead time for a special election. That allows time for candidates to gather petitions and for challenges to be resolved, plus time to prepare the ballots, program the machinery, handle early and absentee balloting and deal with emergencies. As of Tuesday, there are 119 days until the Nov. 2 election.

* Roundup…

* Lawmaker divests nursing home stake: State Sen. Heather Steans has divested her ownership stake in a troubled southwest suburban nursing home that has faced repeated citations for serious patient neglect, including medical failures that allegedly contributed to two patients’ deaths. The December death of Cordelia Lee at Evergreen Health Care Center in Evergreen Park and another death of a 90-year-old patient last year are part of a pattern of substandard care that moved state health authorities earlier this month to revoke the facility’s license… Steans had no operational role in Evergreen, and the Chicago Democrat said that, following a Tribune report on the facility earlier this month, she shed her 2.8 percent interest in the home.

* David Axelrod headlining Giannoulias fund-raiser July 25

* Giannoulias: Obama will campaign for me: “I have a feeling he’ll be out here a few times before November,” Giannoulias said Tuesday in an appearance on the ABC News/Washington Post “Topline” Web show. Giannoulias said that he had not personally asked Obama to stump for him, but added: “The White House has been great; they’ll be out here.”

* State of Illinois new filing fighting two Senate elections Nov. 2

* Porter Endorses Dold

* 60th state House replacement picked; announcement Tuesday

* Pols out in force for Pride Parade