Posted on 03/04/2018 5:16:32 PM PST by PBRCat
Is Republican state Rep. Jeanne Ives really a creature of Democratic boss Mike Madigan? Gov. Bruce Rauner says so on his commercials. So it must be true, right?
No.
A friend saw the Rauner ad against Ives and texted, “So she’s a Madigan candidate?”
No, I told him. Absolutely not.
But when you have millions and millions to spend, like Rauner, you can say almost anything if you pay for it, and if media don’t call you out on it.
Ives, the conservative Republican from Wheaton who is challenging Rauner in the primary for governor, is no Madigan toady.
The governor twisted her words from a debate the two had before the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board. I was there. She crushed him in that one.
Yet now Rauner is using that commercial to make it seem as if she were defending Madigan.
It was Rauner who used Madigan as a shield in that debate, constantly bringing up Madigan almost every time he was asked a question he didn’t like. And Ives mocked him for it, saying, “There he goes, attacking Madigan again,” and so on.
Rauner took her mockery and twisted it. They were her words. But he twisted them. And I don’t see him being called out on it.
The reason she’s in the race is simple. Rauner broke faith with his own Republican Party by signing two controversial pieces of legislation: House Bill 40, allowing for taxpayer-funded abortions, and a “sanctuary state” bill to protect immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.
Illinois politicians for generations have operated with the belief that Illinois voters are stupid people who’ll believe anything they’re told.
It’s the reason why Boss Madigan — speaker of the Illinois House and chairman of the Illinois Democratic Party — has been running things for decades.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
And they've been right. Probably be right again this time.
She’s been pounded, as many as three mail pieces from Rayner’s campaign in one day. From Ives, a 40 page book “The Governor You Don’t Know”. Written by the Chairman of the Chicago Republican Party, devastating to Rauner...Diana Rauner, that is. The Governor no one knows.
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One of the “joys” of living in SE Missouri is we get to see/hear lots of ads for elections we have no say in. Lots of Illinois ads, Kentucky ads and an occasional Tennessee ad. The Illinois Democrat is promising to raise taxes on the “rich”, because apparently Illinoisans are under taxed right now.
Illinois politics are completely controlled by Chicago/Cook county. Southern Illinois has to take whatever scraps are leftover. They’re in pretty bad shape.
We hear these ads all the time on the radio. The Ives ads are pretty good, they use facts about Rauner. His are so lame that they, by themselves, have convinced me that my vote should go to Ives. No facts, and even the quotes by Ives in them do not put her in a bad light. Very poorly done ads, almost as if they were secretly for Ives.
Kass lays it out like it is in of all places The Chicago Tribune.Ives has attacked Rauner on Abortion and making Illinois into a semi “sanctuary state” and has been able to get the story out through some very effective and direct talking commercials which has had the RINOS like Brady (IL GOP Chair) denouncing them .
IFA’s Governor’s Race Comparisons Piece
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/02/illinois-family-actions-governors-race-comparisons-piece/
Rauner is toast even if he does manage to win the primary.
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We are voting for Ives. Rauner is vile for allowing these ads to be run in his name.
L
Yep, unless he is somehow the machine pick, he Kirked himself but I think the combine has their own candidates.
Rauner took her mockery and twisted it.
I knew those ads were BS - now I know why. Good post!
“Yep, unless he is somehow the machine pick,”
Pritzker will be the next Governor, God help us.
L
If Rauner pulls off the primary with low turnout the downstate base will stay home and Pritzker walks away with it.
Forget it Jake... it’s China Town.
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