Susan Sweeney https://illinoisfamilyaction.org Thu, 26 Feb 2015 17:07:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-download-32x32.jpg Susan Sweeney https://illinoisfamilyaction.org 32 32 76203252 “Spend-To-Stay” Alive and Well in Illinois https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/02/spend-to-stay-alive-and-well-in-illinois/ Thu, 26 Feb 2015 21:30:48 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=3361 ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Written by Russ Stewart

Remember that old verity, you get what you pay for? Often, you don’t. In Illinois politics, however, you pay for what you get, and the candidate who pays the most is the candidate who gets.

Bruce Rauner is Illinois’ governor because during 2014 he raised $78,191,560 and spent $58,426,802. Roughly $25 million of his receipts came from his own pocket. Self-funding, in essence, bought him the governorship.

Rauner beat Pat Quinn 1,823,627 to 1,681,343, getting 50.3 percent of the vote and winning by a margin of a margin of 142,284 votes.… Continue Reading

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