As this wretched excuse for a presidential election staggers to an end, the time has come for me to tally up the costs—both political and financial—of Donald Trump’s candidacy for Republicans in Illinois.
Before I dive in, a word or two on behalf of Trump. Yes, yes, get ready—I’m about to say something sort of nice about the Donald.
Proft is a political strategist and conservative talk show host who’s emerged as Rauner’s go-to-guy running key elections across the state.
Kirk certainly can’t pick up moderate or independent voters by opposing gay marriage and dismissing global warming as “junk science.”
Meanwhile, state comptroller Leslie Munger faces a similar problem in her race against Chicago city clerk Susana Mendoza.
As a result, legislators have only been paid twice since then. That’s not so bad for those who have second jobs, such as DuPage County Republican Jim Durkin. He’s a senior partner with the downtown law firm Arnstein & Lehr. (Durkin’s in the firm’s “municipal and government legal services” division, by the way, which, among other things, offers legal representation on tax increment financing, according to the firm’s website. Looks like Chicago Democrats aren’t the only ones feeding from the TIF trough.)
