Illinois' GOP governor faces challenge from right in 2018

[RandySF]

CHICAGO - Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has so infuriated some far-right members of his Republican party with his actions on abortion, immigration and other issues that he's now facing a primary challenge as he seeks a second term.

GOP state Rep. Jeanne Ives, a staunch social and fiscal conservative from suburban Chicago, is raising money and circulating petitions to get on the March ballot. She says Rauner pledged during the 2014 campaign to stand up for taxpayers and not press a social agenda but instead "ended up putting in the social and economic agenda of the Chicago Democrat bosses."

Ives and others from the party's right flank say Rauner's greatest offenses were his signing of measures that provide state health insurance and Medicaid coverage for abortions and that limit local cooperation with federal immigration authorities. He also supported billions in subsidies for power giant Exelon Corp.

Rauner said in the spring that he would veto the abortion bill, but he signed it months later, saying he believes all women should have the same health care options.

"He lied to us," said Ives, a West Point graduate and veteran elected to the Legislature in 2012. "None of us trust him anymore."


http://www.ajc.com/news/illinois-gop-governor-faces-challenge-from-right-2018/1a9xtVNBO4v0tBNVTV9T6I/

[hedda_foil]

1. She may be very sorry. She's too extreme for Illinois but her statehouse constituents don't know it

By raising her profile against moneybags Rauner, she risks losing her current seat by making increasingly blue district aware of her far right ideology.

[murielm99]

3. She loses her current seat anyway.

Win or lose, if she runs for this office, she has to resign. That's what happens in Illinois.

[hedda_foil]

6. Not necessary. She doesn't have to step down for the primary, does she?.

[murielm99]

8. Apparently I was wrong.

https://ballotpedia.org/Resign-to-run_law

This site is reliable.

I got that information from a chairman of a county Democratic organization. He even went on TV and spoke about it! He said she had to give up her seat. Unless there is something else I don't know, he was wrong and so was I.

[lastlib]

2. Good.

Let the fratricide begin......

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[OnDoutside]

4. How does the Democrat challenge look ? Kennedy ?

[murielm99]

9. I like Kennedy.

However, JB is being endorsed by everyone. Congressmen are endorsing him. Unions are endorsing him, too. I will vote for JB gladly if he wins the primary. But I am voting for Kennedy in the primary.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. To Ives:

Those of us not on the lunatic fringe didn't trust him when he ran the first time! The fact that you are this far behind makes you a dumbass.

Guess going to West Point doesn't mean you're smart. Idiot.

[StevieM]

7. When Bruce Rauner is not considered conservative enough, there is a huge problem in this country.

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