Suburban businessman kicks off GOP bid for Illinois governor emulating Trump ...

[left-of-center2012]

Gary Rabine, 57, is the third Republican to officially enter the race for governor emulating Trump, hoping to be as effective ‘a leader in Illinois’. He’s a millionaire entrepreneur. He argues soaring property taxes are the state’s No. 1 problem. He even owns his own country club.

He’s a social conservative opposed to abortion. And he’s a strong supporter of former President Donald Trump, calling his four years in office “the strongest job creation administration in the history of my lifetime.” “If I can be sixty to seventy percent that effective as a leader in Illinois, Illinois will be a way better place four or five years from now,” Rabine told the Sun-Times.



https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2021/3/30/22359274/republican-gary-rabine-governor-trump-illinois-pritzker-bailey-schimpf

[hibbing]

1. Needs to up his racism

Just a little snippet of a dog whistle in the article, needs to step that up to have more appeal to the base.

Peace

[VMA131Marine]

2. If he gets the GOP nomination ...

... he will get crushed in the general. Illinois didn’t like Trump; there’s no way it goes for this guy. How will he win enough votes downstate to make up for the massive losses he will suffer in Chicago and Cook County.

[PortTack]

3. He won't..sounds like rauner....know as ruiner here in the state. That guy was horrible for IL!

[murielm99]

9. All we have to do is call him Rauner lite.

The people of Illinois have not forgotten how bad The Ruiner was, how he destroyed our credit and fought with everyone.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Job creation? Didn't Trump lose around 40 million jobs last year and got some back, but not all?

Job creation? Didn't Trump lose around 40 million jobs last year and got some back, but not all?

[ProfessorGAC]

5. The Guy Is Nuts

The slope shows the first 38 months of T---p to be much less growth than Carter, Reagan (sorry) & Clinton, and about the same growth rate as the last 36 months of Obama. Also, Obama shows 84 months of growth, starting month 13.
T---p only shows 38 months of growth, then the plummet. The "rebound" only came half way back, and was a net loss of around 3%.
This guy is too stupid to even think he'll accomplish anything.
I'm sure he'll push education cuts to lower property taxes. Unbrilliant.

[keithbvadu2]

6. OUCH! Thanks.

[keithbvadu2]

7. And Reagan had quite a few tax hikes.

And Reagan had quite a few tax hikes.

[live love laugh]

11. For every fact and truth broadcast there are countless right wing radio, TV

and social media outlets actively disinforming anybody who will listen to them--filling them with "alternative facts.”

I wish there was a solution that supported truth over all else.

[cinematicdiversions]

8. I was expecting escalator ride. NT

[live love laugh]

10. Ugh they're like cockroaches. We need a vaccine against lying, crazed RepubliQkkkans. nt