Posted on 02/04/2018 3:17:13 AM PST by Altura Ct.
A Republican lawmaker trying to unseat Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner is standing by a campaign ad that has been blasted as racist and homophobic, despite the state party chairman's call for her to stop airing it and apologize.
State Rep. Jeanne Ives, a social and fiscal conservative, said the ad that began airing this weekend illustrates the GOP governor's "chosen constituents based on the policy choices he made" and primary voters need to know about his record.
The ad features actors portraying, among others, a transgender woman, an African-American Chicago Teachers Union member and a woman wearing a pink hat associated with women's marches. Each of them thanks Rauner for his policies. The ad is a take on a Rauner campaign ad in which GOP governors from neighboring states thanked Illinois' Democratic House speaker for policies they say pushed people and jobs to their states.
The actor in Ives' ad who is playing the deep-voiced transgender woman, wearing a dress that reveals chest hair, says "Thank you for signing legislation that lets me use the girl's bathroom." The woman in the pink hat says "Thank you for making all Illinois families pay for my abortions."
Advocacy groups and people from both political parties quickly condemned the ad as divisive and misleading. A spokeswoman for Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker said Ives was spreading "poison," while Illinois Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider said Ives should pull the ad and "immediately apologize to the Illinoisans who were negatively portrayed in a cowardly attempt to stoke political division."
"There is no place in the Illinois Republican Party for rhetoric that attacks our fellow Illinoisans based on their race, gender or humanity," Schneider said Saturday. Ives' campaign dismissed Schneider's statement, calling the Illinois GOP an arm of Rauner's campaign b
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Sounds like a good, effective ad, hence the uproar.
It’s called identity politics and the left started it. Tell us why we can’t use it against them.
Yup - sounds like a good ad to me.
Funny how people are suddenly against free speech and speaking truth to power.
Rauner is going to lose to this woman. I’m going to help her.
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Me too.
What an embarrassment Rayner has been...
Guys is exactly the kind of ad we need to run everywhere for the mid terms and Governor races. We need to find something to motivate it side to move and get it and vote.
>>and a woman wearing a pink hat
Soft-selling a vulgar pussyhat protest.
Stupid smartphone
I had Rauner
ridicule is one of the strongest weapons we have.
So they’re going to scream when we do it
Yes, Alinsky tactics turned against them. It's about time.
I think you meant, speaking truth to stupid.
“Illinois Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider said Ives should pull the ad and “immediately apologize to the Illinoisans who were negatively portrayed in a cowardly attempt to stoke political division.”
Illinois Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider should immediately resign and apologize to Republicans for being a coward for opposing the stoking of political division where it is sorely warranted.
The ad is Rat Poison
Jeanie, tell them to shove it.
Jeanie, tell them to shove it.
Rauner is more RINO than even Kasich!
Racist: someone winning an arguement against a leftist.
It would be a lot simpler if everyone would just label things “NOT-racist”.
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