that she "increased her speed to try and outrun" the trooper, according to court records.

Govednik smelled of alcohol, admitted drinking and failed field sobriety tests, according to police.

A breath test showed her blood-alcohol concentration to be .238; the legal threshold in Illinois is .08.

At the time of her arrest, Govednik had a pending misdemeanor criminal damage to property case from a June 23 arrest in Aurora, according to court records,

Govednik was arrested and charged with DUI in June 2011, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven days in jail and 18 months of conditional discharge and attendance at a victim impact panel, records show. Information about her other two DUI cases was not immediately available.

According to court records, she was arrested and charged with possession of a stolenrecent years over voter suppresion tactics, where their top election official—the secretary of state—is supposed to be a non-partisan referee: Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico and Ohio. Not to be outdone, the Washington Post reported this week that Democrats will form their super PAC to target these races in Ohio, Colorado, Iowa and Nevada.

7. Making Sure That Campaign Finance Crimes Do Pay

Another recent democracy-killing trend has been campaigns underwritten by hundreds of millions of dollars from donors whose names have been hidden by political consultants such as Karl Rove. Rove pioneered the use of using non-profit charities, which do not have to disclose donors’ names, as political front groups. Campaign finance activists filed legal complaints at the Federal Election Commission, where, in 2012, the legal