EARLY voting in Illinois’s gubernatorial primary, which takes place on March 20th, is already underway in Chicago. The outcome had seemed to be a foregone conclusion. J.B. Pritzker, the billionaire heir of the Hyatt hotel dynasty, would win the Democratic vote and Bruce Rauner, the incumbent governor (pictured), would be the candidate for the Republican Party. Yet an unexpectedly strong performance by Daniel Biss, a state senator, who is attacking Mr Pritzker from the left of their party, and Jeanne Ives, a Republican state representative, who is going after Mr Rauner from the right of theirs, is casting a shadow of doubt over the result.
These challenges have arisen thanks to series of scandals and blunders as well the campaigning talents of both Mr Biss and Ms Ives. Mr Rauner is in hot water over the way he failed to deal with 13 deaths from waterborne Legionnaires' disease, a nasty kind of pneumonia, of veterans at a home in Quincy, Illinois. In January Mr Rauner stayed for a week at the veterans’ home to check on the situation first-hand....Continue reading
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