Illinois Issues: The Governor’s Money
via NPR Illinois
Technically, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s election victory on November 4, 2014, marked the end of his first political campaign. But in some ways that campaign has never stopped.
In what appears to be a fundamentally new strategy in the use of campaign cash in Illinois, the state’s new Republican governor in May doled out $400,000 in a single day from his main campaign committee, giving to all 67 Republicans in both chambers of the legislature.
Part of what made the contributions notable was that the state was in a political off-year, with one election just passed and no lawmaker facing the voters again until at least 2016.
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