Illinois Governor race spending at all-time high

http://www.wsiltv.com/story/36620976/illinois-governor-race-spending-at-all-time-high

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CARBONDALE, IL (Andrew Feather, WSIL-TV.  Please click on the link above for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below)

John Jackson, a professor at SIU’s Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, says the amount of money spent in Illinois governor’s race so far is unheard of.

“This is the earliest I’ve ever seen this much money being spent,” he said.

Pritzker was the biggest spender by far, shelling out nearly 12 million dollars, more than 127 thousand a day, over the three month span.

Governor Rauner, unchallenged on the Republican side, spent just under two and a half million dollars, but has more than 65 million dollars in cash on hand, nearly 10 times as much as any of the democrats in the race.