Rutherford shared rooms with assistant

State Treasurer Dan Rutherford routinely roomed overnight in hotels and a Chicago apartment with a low-level treasurer’s office employee whom he has given a 50 percent pay hike, raising questions about the workplace judgment of the Republican candidate for governor.

Here’s a link to the story at the Chicago Tribune.

State Treasurer Dan Rutherford answers a question during the Northwest Suburban Republican gubernatorial debate in Hoffman Estates on Monday. (Nuccio DiNuzzo, Chicago Tribune