Rauner courts black votes with $1M investment
October 3rd, 2014
Via Chicago Tribune
By John Chase and Bob Secter, Tribune reporters
Gregg Brown never met Bruce Rauner before the late summer day the wealthy Republican candidate for governor came calling with $1 million worth of personal checks and an army of news cameras at the offices of Brown’s tiny credit union in a South Side strip mall.Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, Brown, the institution’s president and CEO, politely accepted the money even though he hadn’t sought it and wasn’t quite sure what to do with all of it. What’s more, the windfall left Brown fretting over unrealistic expectations that it would bankroll significant new business loan activity in a low-income community in need of it.
“We are better off than we were before, but sometimes in the perception of the community we have all this money to give away,” Brown later reflected.
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