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global1

(25,242 posts) Tue Mar 18, 2014, 11:29 PM Mar 2014

So Another Rich Repub Buys An Election......

Bruce Rauner wins the Illinois Repub Primary for Governor and he will go against the incumbent Democratic Governor Pat Quinn.

Watch the Repub money pour in to this race from all over the country.

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So Another Rich Repub Buys An Election...... (Original Post) global1 Mar 2014 OP

Illinois will get a Walker clone if Quinn does not win lunasun Mar 2014 #1

omg! pat quinn kills kittens!??!? really?!??!? the tv said it so it must be tru!!! Adam051188 Mar 2014 #2

Credit where it is due Half-Century Man Mar 2014 #3

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

1. Illinois will get a Walker clone if Quinn does not win

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 11:35 PM

Mar 2014

Tons of $$$ already in Illinois primary for state races too. I said all this money and what they could have done to help people . It is on overload and obvious Illinois is a RW/Tea target. They want all the great lakes' states it seems

Adam051188

(711 posts)

2. omg! pat quinn kills kittens!??!? really?!??!? the tv said it so it must be tru!!!

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 11:36 PM

Mar 2014

imagine an election where-in debates were held regularly and candidates asked eachother the questions, any questions, with between 30 second and 3 minute response times for each question and no electronic media advertisements?

Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts)

3. Credit where it is due

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 11:37 PM

Mar 2014

To be fair, massive spending on political propaganda is the only way the GOP (greedy old pricks) actually stimulates the economy.

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