{"id":428430,"date":"2010-03-14T17:50:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T21:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0120a9378656970b"},"modified":"2010-03-14T17:50:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T21:50:20","slug":"republican-brady-nods-to-moderates-and-independents-in-governor-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/428430","title":{"rendered":"Republican Brady nods to moderates and independents in governor race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted\u00a0by Rick\u00a0Pearson <\/em>at 4:50 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Republican governor candidate Bill Brady promoted support for his candidacy from former rivals Sunday as he launched an effort to win over suburban moderate and independent voters unfamiliar with his record and background as a central Illinois state lawmaker.<\/p>\n

Brady also said his pro-business background could help the GOP expand support to an African-American and Latino community looking for private-sector job creation and educational improvement and contended Democrats \u201cturned their backs on the needs of minorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking at a unity event at the Alta Villa banquet hall in west suburban Addison, the Bloomington state senator received a show of support from his Feb. 2 primary rivals for governor\u2014- five of whom have ties to DuPage County including state Sen. Kirk Dillard, who recently conceded a 193-vote defeat to Brady.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do know there\u2019s a lot of people that need to know more about what I stand for, what our ticket stands for and what our party stands for,\u201d Brady told several hundred people at the rally. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be important that we reach out and sell that message.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Brady wants to campaign as an anti-tax increase, budget-cutting conservative, Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn will seek to paint him as far to the right on social issues such as abortion rights and church interaction in public schools. On Sunday, Nancy Brady, the candidate\u2019s wife, introduced her husband as \u201cthe person that I pray will be the next governor of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brady, however, said he\u2019s never been able to win office dependent upon Republican votes alone\u2014even in his conservative GOP base of McLean County.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis election is our time. It is our time to reach out, to reach beyond traditional Republican boundaries and borders, to reach out to independents and Democrats, to reach out to minorities\u2014-blacks and Latinos\u2014-and share the vision we have for the future of Illinois,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMinorities are not, in this state, dependent on government jobs They\u2019re looking for private-sector jobs,\u201d said Brady, a real estate developer with other business interests. \u201cThey understand it\u2019s private-sector principles that will bring big-box construction jobs, permanent jobs and affordable quality food to their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joined by many of his statewide GOP ticketmates, Brady decried Quinn repeatedly as representing \u201cthe party of old\u201d and called him \u201ca candidate who refused to recognize the sins of the last eight years that have blackened the eye of Illinois on every late night talk show\u201d\u2014a reference to indicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich whom Quinn replaced in January 2009.<\/p>\n

But as he attacked Quinn\u2019s recent call for a 33 percent increase in the state\u2019s income tax\u2014moving the personal rate from 3 percent to 4 percent\u2014Brady also said he would not use his position as a state senator to sponsor his own budget plan. <\/p>\n

Brady has called for 10 percent across-the-board cuts in spending as well as a $1 billion reduction in taxes in a state which faces a $13 billion budget deficit and has a backlog of $5 billion in unpaid bills. He has declined to offer budget specifics that go beyond those broad outlines.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t need to be put in legislation. It\u2019s not complex,\u201d Brady said of his fiscal plans. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to play (the Democrats\u2019) game. They\u2019re all about politics and game playing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Posted\u00a0by Rick\u00a0Pearson at 4:50 p.m.\u00a0 Republican governor candidate Bill Brady promoted support for his candidacy from former rivals Sunday as he launched an effort to win over suburban moderate and independent voters unfamiliar with his record and background as a central Illinois state lawmaker. Brady also said his pro-business background could help the GOP expand […]<\/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-428430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428430","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=428430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}