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So I finally got around to looking at the GOP candidates for Governor in Illinois. The situation isn\u2019t quite as dire as I had previously thought. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got Bruce Rauner \u2014 the usual gazillionaire \u201cbuy the election\u201d type. He doesn\u2019t have much to offer than the standard \u201cI\u2019m going to run Illinois like a business.\u201d Guess what? Government isn\u2019t a business, much less a private equity firm. If anything, it\u2019s more like GM, where part of the required skill set is negotiation \u2014 negotiation with unions, with the regulators, with any number of other parties. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got Brady. Can\u2019t remember his first name. He won the primary last time around because the other three candidates split the Chicagoland vote, and he got all the downstate vote. And maybe this\u2019ll happen again \u2014 but, I\u2019m sorry, a Quinn-Brady re-match is not going to end in Brady\u2019s favor. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got Kirk Dillard. Former chief of staff for Edgar (the governor prior to Ryan and Blago, and actually not convicted of any crimes), and State Senator since then. Biggest claim to fame that I can tell: according to Wikipedia, \u201cin June 2007, he appeared in an Iowa TV ad touting his former state senate colleague, Barack Obama<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s Dan Rutherford, who\u2019s currently the Illinois Treasurer. This alone makes him more credible than the other guys. But here\u2019s something icky about him: his platform consists entirely of fiscal responsibility. There\u2019s a link to a \u201csurvey of issues\u201d \u2014 which is a literal survey asking where site visitors stand on social issues and giving one the impression that he\u2019ll announce his position on those issues only after some more poll testing. <\/p>\n

Any Republican governor will be hamstrung by Mike Madigan, the all-powerful Speaker of the House, and by the unions. Not long ago, the papers reported that Quinn had contracted with an outside group to weed out Medicaid recipients who were ineligible, but the unions fought back and demanded that they be able to do the work, and a court agreed. Do you really believe they\u2019ll be as effective as the outside company? <\/p>\n

And any Repubican candidate won\u2019t make it as far as the governor\u2019s office in the first place if they can\u2019t speak forthrightly about their views on social issues, or on economic issues that are more divisive than \u201ccut waste and fraud.\u201d If they aggressively position themselves as moderates, they\u2019ll lose votes from their own party, who won\u2019t see a reason to differentiate between the GOP and the Democrates. If they have taken more conservative stands in the past and try to \u201chide\u201d them with the expectation that it\u2019s necessary to get elected in Illinois, the Democrats\u2019 PACs will run the attack ads anyway. <\/p>\n

See why I\u2019m irritated with the Illinois GOP?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"