Illinois Governor - And the Nominee is Named: A month after the primary, state Senator Bill Brady (R-IL) is officially declared the gubernatorial nominee having defeated state Senator Kirk W. Dillard (R-IL) by 193 votes. Dillard announced that he would not seek a recount and conceded to Brady.
Before the story of Dillard's concession could be put to print, Brady was demonstrating why his candidacy might not be the proper vehicle for the GOP to recapture the Governor's Mansion. Brady held a press conference and accused Governor Pat Quinn of putting "at risk the people of Illinois and their public safety." Brady suggested that a Springfield man accused of a murder was part of Governor Pat Quinn's (D-IL) early release program for inmates. If Brady's campaign had checked available public records, they would have realized that the inmate was not among those the Quinn administration released early because he was not eligible. In fact, The Quinn administration has provided an online list detailing which inmates were let out early after getting time taken off their prison sentence.
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Illinois 8th District - Slipped Tea: National Republicans have apparently decided to not help financially the congressional campaign of Joe Walsh (R-IL), the only TEA party activist to have won, so far, a GOP nomination. "Walsh wasn't the GOP group's choice to face the three-term incumbent," said National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Tom Erickson. Walsh's campaign is taking the snub stoically. "Joe Walsh is not part of the establishment and, unfortunately, some elements of the GOP establishment are still a bit tone deaf when it comes to independent, conservative reform candidates," a spokesperson of the campaign wrote. "It helps explain why they didn't see Walsh's primary victory coming."
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