{"id":392824,"date":"2010-03-05T11:05:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0120a901f2ab970b"},"modified":"2010-03-05T18:04:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T23:04:50","slug":"brady-accepts-republican-governor-nomination-a-month-after-close-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/392824","title":{"rendered":"Brady accepts Republican governor nomination a month after close election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted by Rick Pearson, Ray Long and Monique Garcia<\/em>; last updated at 4:05 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/br>Republican governor candidate Sen. Kirk Dillard concedes the race to Sen. Bill Brady today. (Abel Uribe\/ Chicago Tribune)<\/em><\/p>\n

State Sen. Bill Brady accepted the Republican governor nomination today, a little more than a month after a close contest that he won by 193 votes.<\/p>\n

"For me this campaign is about two things: jobs, job, jobs and reform, reform, reform," said Brady, surrounded by his wife, Nancy, and three children.<\/p>\n

The conservative downstate senator from Bloomington will take on liberal Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn this fall in a contest expected to provide a clear contrast for voters.<\/p>\n

Brady today accused Quinn of wanting to raise taxes to maintain the "status quo."<\/p>\n

"Gov. Quinn is dead wrong on this issue," Brady said.<\/p>\n

At a separate appearance on the South Side, Quinn focused on Brady’s conservative views.<\/p>\n

"We have clear philosophical differences. In the past, his voting record has shown that he has been very extreme when it comes to taking on issues protecting everyday people. I think the people of Illinois, as the campaign goes forward, will see there’s a clear difference between my view of helping everyday people and his view of helping big corporations," Quinn said.
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Brady’s speech in downtown Chicago came after state Sen. Kirk Dillard conceded defeat this afternoon and the Illinois State Board of Elections this morning certified the results of the closely contested Feb. 2 primary election.<\/p>\n

"It was a hard fought race, it was very, very close… But now it’s
\nclear that my colleague and friend Bill Brady has won the Republican
\nnomination for governor," said Dillard, a veteran Hinsdale lawmaker.<\/p>\n

Brady said he strategically went after downstate voters during the primary campaign and didn’t have the money to air TV ads in the Chicago area, but he said as the GOP governor nominee he will have the money to do so.
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<\/br>As for his conservative record on social issues, Brady said "I am what I am," adding that the race will focus on the economy. <\/p>\n

Brady’s slim victory amounted to a miniscule .025 percent of the 767,485 ballots cast in the heavily contested race for the nomination. Officially, Brady got 20.26 percent of the GOP primary vote, compared to Dillard\u2019s 20.24 percent.<\/p>\n

"Close huh?" Dillard said today. " A little less than two votes per county."\n<\/p>\n

Dillard gave a special thanks to former Republican Gov. Jim Edgar for his endorsement. The senator also thanked his wife, Stephanie, who had tears streaming down her face.<\/p>\n

Dillard has said that if the state board figures did not put him within 100 votes of Brady, he would not seek a recount. He still has the option for a discovery recount that would resample the ballot counts from a small portion of election precincts. But he also has said he wants to avoid a recount\u2014a full statewide recount could cost him more than $1 million.On the Democratic side, Quinn was the winner for the governor\u2019s nomination over Comptroller Dan Hynes by 8,372 votes out of 915,726 ballots cast. Officially, Quinn got 50.46 percent of the vote to Hynes’ 49.54 percent.<\/p>\n

Posted by Rick Pearson<\/em> at 9:57 a.m.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s the day that the State Board of Elections certifies the results of the Feb. 2 primary, including the contested race for the Republican nomination for governor, amid expectations that state Sen. Kirk Dillard of Hinsdale will concede to his colleague, state Sen. Bill Brady of Bloomington.<\/p>\n

Dillard, who trails Brady by about 200 votes, has said that if the state board figures do not put him within 100 votes of Brady, he would not seek a recount. He still has the option for a discovery recount that would resample the ballot counts from a small portion of election precincts. But he also has said he wants to avoid a recount\u2014and a full statewide recounting could cost him more than $1 million.<\/p>\n

Dillard has scheduled a public announcement of his intentions early this afternoon in Chicago, followed by a Brady announcement set in the city an hour later. <\/p>\n

Anticipating he will become the undisputed winner, Brady\u00a0also is planning to spend the rush hour at the Ogilvie Transportation Center to thank Metra commuters for their support. Thanking rush-hour commuters is a traditional election victory move for a candidate\u2014though in this case more than four-weeks later.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Brady took a shot<\/a> at his Democratic rival, Gov. Pat Quinn, over the controversial issue of releasing inmates early from prison. But he couldn’t back up his attempt to blame\u00a0a Sangamon County killing on the defunct prison program.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posted by Rick Pearson, Ray Long and Monique Garcia; last updated at 4:05 p.m. Republican governor candidate Sen. Kirk Dillard concedes the race to Sen. Bill Brady today. (Abel Uribe\/ Chicago Tribune) State Sen. Bill Brady accepted the Republican governor nomination today, a little more than a month after a close contest that he won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}