[Graybeard58]

The "Republican" nominee for Governor of Illinois is just as liberal as his Democrat counterpart, and is "close personal friends" with Rahm Emanuel. IL House Speaker for life Mike Madigan (a Chicago machine pol) has unofficially endorsed RINO Rahm pal Rauner.

That being said, I probably won't bother voting for Chad Grimm, who is pro-life and pro-gun but otherwise pretty lousy on the issues (some conservative organization analyzed all three candidates on the ballot and determined all of them were at least "somewhat liberal" ideologically). Most likely I will cast a write-in vote for Mark Smith on Tuesday.

Ditto on everything you said except the part about Mark Smith. Is he registered as a "write in candidate", a necessity by Illinois law.

[BillyBoy]

>> the part about Mark Smith. Is he registered as a “write in candidate”, a necessity by Illinois law. <<

Yes. I checked with the Cook County Board of Elections and the following people filed papers to run as write-in candidates for Governor:

Robert “Chico” Perez, Jr.
Michael W. Scruggs
Mark Smith
Scott Summers
Ryan Sweeney & Aaron Merreighn

http://www.cookcountyclerk.com/elections/2014elections/Pages/Writeincandidates.aspx

Perez and Smith are pro-life. I think Summers is the Green who failed to get on the ballot for Governor.