Republicans are furiously pointing fingers after the collapse of Richard Irvin, a candidate once advertised as the best bet to compete against Illinois Gov. Pritzker.
“And I hate Trump too!” Irvin wrote in the texts, according to the report. “He’s an idiot!!!” Irvin added: “and a bigoted racist.”Democratic playbook of meddling
Brady, the former state GOP chair, accused Zolnierowicz of using a closed, secretive process when he recruited Irvin as the party’s preferred candidate and of intimidating Republicans if they waffled with getting on board, “This was so bad and so arrogant and so deceitful to Republican voters what Mike Z did running this,” Brady said, referring to Zolnierowicz, who was chief of staff to the last Republican governor, Bruce Rauner.Brady said the effort to recruit Irvin should have involved a broader segment of Republicans who were instead shut out. During Rauner’s 2014 campaign, Brady worked with and counted as personal friends many of the same people now working on Irvin’s team.
Some Republicans privately criticized Brady, saying he was letting personal feelings get in the way because the Irvin team selected a slate of Republicans it would back that excluded Brady’s cousin, Dan Brady,Several Republicans agreed with Brady that the Irvin campaign had operated in a heavy-handed manner, including aggressively pushing Republicans to get on board with its slate of candidates no matter their past allegiances. But they chalked it up to politics.
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