SPRINGFIELD  —  Accusations ranging from pay-to-play to dirty campaigning flew Thursday morning at a state Senate hearing for one of Gov. Pat Quinn's picks for the Illinois Human Rights Commission.

The normally, and up to that point, mundane hearing into appointments became a shouting match as two Republican senators expressed their opposition to Terry Cosgrove.  Quinn picked Cosgrove to sit on the state's Human Right's Commission. But he is best known as the head of Personal PAC, a political action arm of a group that's pro-choice that also gave Quinn's campaign for governor $10,000, according to the Illinois State Board of Elections.

Suburban State Sen. Dan Duffy, R-Barrington, did not use his inside voice as he blasted Cosgrove for Personal PAC's actions in past elections, including Duffy's own race.

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Cosgrove said it is his years of advocating for fairness and equal treatment under the law that brought him to the Human Rights Commission.

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The governor's office says they fully support Cosgrove.  He was appointed by a 30-25 vote.