Over the last several days, talk has circulated that the uber-rich Illinois GOP Governor Bruce Rauner will be using his resources to take his ongoing message of "shaking up Springfield" to the airwaves. Not through interviews with media, but by buying ad time and creating commercials to promote his ideas for crafting a budget.
A commercial, funded by a political action committee that Rauner created called "Turnaround Illinois" has just come out. The PAC is largely funded by real estate investor Sam Zell with $4 million, with another $250,000 coming from Rauner himself. Amanda Vinicky discusses what it could mean in this episode of The Players:
