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[quote=Anonymous]Another megadonor trying to buy our elections to support his ideology.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/19/republican-megadonor-uihlein-470268
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Democrats and many Republicans in Illinois were horrified by the ad: a 60-second spot released by Gov. Bruce Rauner’s GOP primary challenger, Jeanne Ives, featuring a parade of politically incorrect takes on thorny cultural issues. A deep-voiced man portraying a transgender woman tells Rauner, “Thank you for signing legislation that lets me use the girls bathroom.” Then a young woman thanks Rauner for “making all Illinois families pay for my abortions.”

But equally shocking to the content was the person who had made the ad possible: Richard Uihlein, a little-known Republican donor who had until recently been one of Rauner’s biggest supporters. After a fallout with the governor over abortion policy, Uihlein gave $2.5 million to Ives in a single week this past January — essentially bankrolling her campaign to defeat Rauner in a Republican primary on Tuesday.

Uihlein's funds have similarly given heft to other candidacies across the country, especially in Senate races that could prove crucial to Republicans seeking to keep their majority in the chamber. Uihlein has spent six-figure sums in at least seven Senate races thus far, including a super PAC supporting state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey over Rep. Evan Jenkins in West Virginia, and McDaniel, who is running in a special election in Mississippi for a soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat this fall.

Uihlein was also one of few donors to give money to a pro-Moore super PAC in last year’s special Senate election in Alabama — after Moore was accused of having solicited women as young as 14.
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