Illinois governor candidate stands by ad blasted as racist

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CHICAGO (AP) —
A Republican lawmaker trying to unseat Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner is standing by a campaign ad that has been blasted as racist and homophobic, despite the state party chairman's call for her to stop airing it and apologize.

State Rep. Jeanne Ives (Republican - Illinois House of Representatives for the 42nd district) a social and fiscal conservative, said the ad that began airing this weekend illustrates the governor's "chosen constituents based on the policy choices he made" and primary voters need to know about his record.

The ad features actors portraying, among others, a transgender woman, an African-American Chicago Teachers Union member and a woman wearing a pink hat associated with women's marches. Each of them thanks Rauner for his policies.

The actor in Ives' ad who is playing the deep-voiced transgender woman, wearing a dress that reveals chest hair, says "Thank you for signing legislation that lets me use the girl's bathroom."

The woman in the pink hat says "Thank you for making all Illinois families pay for my abortions."

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Disgusting......

But , that is who the Republicans are.

[Heartstrings]

2. Is she the same person who

inflamed Chris Kennedy about her stance on gun control by saying if more fathers were in the homes gun violence would go down?

[lunasun]

3. Yes. She is deplorable but may win because everyone hates Rauner including factions of Rs here

Rauner as governor has been everything almost everybody R or Ds , for different reasons, didn't want for Illinois and now may lose the primary to this creep
He was not a good negotiator and no gov. experience. She will attract the Trumper crowd thats who that ad is for

[lunasun]

4. wow they never even mention what the black CTU actor had to say in the ad when I read the link

Yet some termed it racists it said
See if I can find the ad in Illinois