City Clerk Anna Valencia denied she used her position to help her lobbyist husband secure business opportunities — while former state treasurer Alexi Giannoulias defended his family’s failed bank on Thursday after the two squared off in a forum of Democratic candidates for Illinois secretary of state.
Ald. David Moore (17th), who has limited campaign coffers, tried to paint himself as the candidate without any ethical problems — as Giannoulias and Valencia traded barbs in the heated Democratic race to succeed Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White.
