I HATE ILLINOIS RACISTS: Racial slur led to fight with Illinois trooper, student says. “The politically connected head of Gov. Pat Quinn’s Southern Illinois security detail used a racial slur against a black college student in a Carlinville bar, starting a fight that preceded the officer’s resignation, the student says. . . . Snider, one of Quinn’s top security people and a well-connected member of the region’s Democratic power structure, resigned shortly after what officials have described as a barroom ‘altercation.’ The following day, Snider also resigned without explanation as head of the Macoupin County Democratic Party and president of the Carlinville School Board.”