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orleans

(34,057 posts) Thu Feb 9, 2017, 03:09 AM Feb 2017

chris kennedy is going to run for illinois governor

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Kennedy enters 2018 Illinois governor's race ripping Rauner for causing 'economic chaos'

"Democratic businessman Chris Kennedy entered the Illinois governor's race Wednesday, assailing Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner for "destroying" the state's economy and failing to lead state government out of its financial mess.

"I think Gov. Rauner's taken a state government budget problem and turned it into economic chaos for the rest of the state. I don't think it needed to go that way. And I think it's fixable," said Kennedy, 53, the son of the slain Democratic liberal icon Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chris-kennedy-illinois-governor-20170208-story.html

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chris kennedy is going to run for illinois governor (Original Post) orleans Feb 2017 OP

He just has to be a Kennedy and Illinois will elect him on nostalgia alone. Eyeball_Kid Feb 2017 #1

Good. Wish Joe Kennedy had run for Ted's seat. pat_k Feb 2017 #2

Eyeball_Kid

(7,432 posts)

1. He just has to be a Kennedy and Illinois will elect him on nostalgia alone.

Reply to orleans (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2017, 03:21 AM

Feb 2017

Chicago metro will carry Kennedy.

If he doesn't have skeletons, he's in, Rauner's out.

Rauner's a scourge on the state.

pat_k

(9,313 posts)

2. Good. Wish Joe Kennedy had run for Ted's seat.

Reply to orleans (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2017, 03:42 AM

Feb 2017

If he had, I think there would be one less Repub in the Senate today.

Oh well.

Bridge. Water. under.

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