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Last week, gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey was driven to the Republican Day event at the Springfield State Fair, on a large John Deere tractor, a tailor-made image for TV and print reporters alike.
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Political commercial uses images from a speech the mayor gave earlier this year.
Conservative Dan Proft told the Sun-Times in a text statement that Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s accusation about his PAC’s ad was “an insane assertion,” adding “We did nothing to her pigmentation just as we did nothing to [the] pigmentation of our pasty blowhard of a governor.”
One Democrat called the ad “racialized carnage porn.” The PAC called Lightfoot’s allegation “insane.”
Rich Miller Capitol Fax column about GOP gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey and his financial ability to run for governor