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2018-09-07 Home Front: Politix

Illinois Gov. Rauner - 'I'm just tired of white people telling me what to do....'

[PJ] Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner decided in late July he won’t be giving any more money to millionaire Chicago mayoral candidate Willie Wilson’s charitable foundation, and the African-American businessman decided he’s tired of white people telling him how to spend his money.

"I was raised in the South Jim Crow days," Wilson said. "I’m just tired of white people telling me what to do. It was with my own money, all right, I didn’t use taxpayer dollars."

Wilson, who owns several McDonald’s franchises in the Chicago area, along with the Omar Medical Supplies company, also produces a nationally syndicated gospel music TV program, Singsation.

Wilson, a Democrat, is running for mayor of Chicago for the second time. Wilson ran against Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2015, and lost. Wilson ran for president in 2016 as a Democrat and was the first presidential candidate, Democrat or Republican, to buy ads in Iowa for that election.

Rauner is running for re-election against J.B. Pritzker, and the race is much tighter than the Republican would like it to be. A June Capitol Fax/We Ask America poll showed Pritzker leading Rauner by nine points. Another 26 percent of the voters surveyed said they’d just as soon vote for an unnamed third-party candidate. Another 11 percent were undecided. So the last thing the Rauner campaign needs is this kind of aggravation.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-07 02:31|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top

#1 Since they're 70% of your population, and 90% of your country economy, what do you suggest?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-09-07 03:07|| 2018-09-07 03:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Run in Democratic Liberia.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-09-07 06:20|| 2018-09-07 06:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Skip the black white bit, why was Rauner giving money to a DEMOCRAT? Rauner keeps telling the states voters he is their REPUBLICAN gov. Which is it?

Posted by 3dc 2018-09-07 06:49|| 2018-09-07 06:49|| Front Page Top

#4 ...the Swamp and Uniparty are not just located in the District of Columbia.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-09-07 07:54|| 2018-09-07 07:54|| Front Page Top

#5 J.B. Pritzker is a white left-wing socialist.

Rauner is a white left-of-center RINO.

Compared to Pritzker though, Rauner is a Bircher.

Both are pretty worthless.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-09-07 08:37|| 2018-09-07 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Who wrote this headline? Misleading much?

Posted by Raj 2018-09-07 09:13|| 2018-09-07 09:13|| Front Page Top

#7 He's worth about $1 billion which he made from a couple of equity capital firms. He gets another $170,000/yr. from being governor.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-09-07 18:32|| 2018-09-07 18:32|| Front Page Top

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