Super-wealthy office seekers appears to be growing trend
RFI Policy Director Alisa Kaplan was quoted in this article.
Via – The News-Gazette
When J.B. Pritzker is sworn in as Illinois’ 43rd governor Monday (listen live on WDWS at noon), the Hyatt hotels heir will become the wealthiest politician in the country.
With a Forbes-estimated net worth of $3.2 billion, he’s now worth about $100 million more than President Donald Trump.
And like Trump and Pritzker’s soon-to-be predecessor — multimillionaire venture capitalist Bruce Rauner — Illinois’ next governor has never held public office, though he did run unsuccessfully for Congress in 1998
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