Illinois voters to pick GOP governor nominee
Illinois voters to pick GOP governor nominee
By SARA BURNETT, Associated Press | March 18, 2014 | Updated: March 18, 2014 12:12am
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois voters will choose a Republican on Tuesday to try to win back the governor's office in a race that already has drawn intense interest from labor unions worried that the leading candidate could weaken them in the same way GOP governors have in other states across the Midwest.
At the front of the four-person pack is Bruce Rauner, a multimillionaire venture capitalist who has said he would model his governorship after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels. Rauner faces three longtime lawmakers for the nomination: state Sens. Bill Brady and Kirk Dillard, and state Treasurer Dan Rutherford.
Rauner, Dillard and Brady spent Monday traveling the state to meet with voters and urge them to go to the polls. Organized labor, meanwhile, was encouraging members to pull Republican primary ballots and cast their vote for Dillard, who has been endorsed by three of the state's largest public-employee unions.
The typically left-leaning unions spent more than $6 million on the GOP primary, both in anti-Rauner and pro-Dillard ads. Rauner has raised more than $14 million, including $6 million of his own money — more than any candidate seeking a gubernatorial nomination in state history.
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