Gov. J.B. Pritzker used his personal trust fund to circumvent contribution limits in two Illinois Supreme Court races.
Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker is using his personal trust fund to circumvent contribution limits in two races that will determine whether his party maintains its 4-3 majority on the Illinois Supreme Court.
Before the now-suspended law went into effect, billionaire Citadel founder Ken Griffin, a chief Pritzker political rival, gave $6.25 million to an independent expenditure committee called Citizens for Judicial Fairness that is supporting the Republican candidates for the two open Supreme Court seats, Mark Curran and Michael Burke.
“The governor believes we can’t let Ken Griffin lie about our Supreme Court candidates and spread Republican misinformation in the final days of the election,” Pritzker spokesperson Natalie Edelstein said in a statement. “That doesn’t make him any better or any worse,” said Redfield, an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Springfield. “He’s operating within the way the laws are structured.”
In its ads, Citizens for Judicial Fairness has sought to tie Rochford and O’Brien to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, who is under indictment on federal corruption charges.In October, the group reported spending nearly $4.9 million on advertising in the race between Burke, an appointed Supreme Court justice, and O’Brien, an appellate judge, and $1.3 million in the race between Curran, the former Lake County sheriff, and Rochford, an associate judge.
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