Gov. Bruce Rauner in Statewide TV Ads a Year Before Primary
Executive Director Sarah Brune was quoted in this article
via – Chicago Sun-Times
“With the 2018 primary still a year away, Gov. Bruce Rauner is already on television screens throughout the state, targeting Democrats for using ‘duct tape’ to fix the state’s financial problems.
That’s because an arm of the Republican Governors Association has purchased a total of $1.05 million worth of TV time to air 15- and 30-second advertisements featuring Rauner in five TV markets statewide: Chicago, Champaign-Springfield, Rockford, Quad-Cities and Peoria-Bloomington, records show. The ads began running on Tuesday and will continue through April 9.
According to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, the ads are labeled ‘non-candidate advertising’ and concern ‘Illinois governmental and fiscal reform’ — so they’re not technically political campaign ads that must be reported to the state’s election board.”
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