Griffin's millions flag a 'do or die' Illinois' governor's race for GOP

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

For all the talk about Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner’s exorbitant wealth, his nine homes, his self-proclaimed spot among the “.01 percent,” there are those in Illinois who are far wealthier.

At the top of the list is billionaire Ken Griffin, the CEO and founder of Citadel who already was Rauner’s top campaign contributor (outside of Rauner’s own donations) when he grabbed front-page headlines two weeks ago with his record-breaking $2.5 million contribution to Rauner’s gubernatorial campaign.

That was on top of $1 million Griffin already had given and in addition to letting Rauner use Griffin’s $50 million private jet to campaign around the state.

The question is: Why? What’s Griffin’s interest?

A Republican operative who has had conversations with Griffin but was not authorized to talk publicly about them said, “This is do or die for the state of Illinois, that’s how he feels,” and insisted Griffin had no interest “other than the solvency of the state.”

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