Illinois Gov Says Voters Shouldn't Support Dem Over Nazi GOP Candidate

[RandySF]

Illinois GOP Gov. Bruce Rauner on Tuesday declined to endorse the incumbent Democrat running for Congress against a neo-Nazi GOP candidate, instead calling for the Nazi to drop out of the race.

Arthur Jones, who describes the Holocaust as “the biggest, blackest lie in history,” is running against Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL), a moderate pro-life Democrat.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed Jones as a “bigoted fool” on Friday, and called on voters to either write in another candidate or vote for Lipinski.

When WCIA reporters asked Rauner if he would do the same, the answer was “no.”

“The one thing I will say is the person, that guy, Johnson or whatever his name is, should not be on the ballot,” said the Illinois governor.

Rauner is locked in a tough fight to keep his seat against billionaire Democrat J.B. Pritzer. The governor first condemned Jones back in February, saying that “there is no room for Neo Nazis in American politics.”

After state Republicans failed recruit anyone to challenge Jones in the primary and missed several other opportunities to kick him off the ticket, the neo-Nazi crowed over his victory.

“I snookered them,” he told Politico.


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/illinois-governor-nazi-gop-candidate-arthur-jones

[tonyt53]

1. True to IL governors, Rauner will be in the pen within a year anyway.

[jaysunb]

2. Was Jones placed on the ballot or did people vote for him ? n/t

[RandySF]

3. He was the only Republican to file.

And people did vote for him during the primary.

[jaysunb]

5. Of course they did ( vote for him )

and they'll vote for him again In the general.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. 20,000 people in the district voted for him.

The incumbent Democrat is likely to win.

[jaysunb]

7. That's a lot of people voting for a nazi. n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. It's downright scary.

I live in an adjacent district, but have family members in that area.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Ruiner's afraid Jones' presence on the ballot will have people voting straight Democratic.

I don't know how Jones could say he "snookered" the voters. You had to be living in a cave to not know that he's a neo-Nazi. Ruiner can't vote for Jones since he doesn't live in the district. Both need to get out of Illinois politics.

[AlexSFCA]

9. let gop own it; he is a republican running as a republican

that is exactly what the trumps party stands for, only jones is brutally open about it. I wonder if trump us going to endorse him like he did moore. If not trump then bannon might.