Gov. Bruce Rauner and JB Pritzker to Face Off in Illinois
March 21, 2018 by admin
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But Mr. Rauner, 61, survived a challenge from Jeanne Ives, a Republican legislator and Army veteran who took a hard-right stance on social issues and attacked him for being insufficiently conservative.
Mr. Rauner appealed for unity in a speech on Tuesday night, imploring Republicans, independents and Democrats to give him another term in office to institute needed change.
“Let’s work together to bridge the divide,” he said. “The election in November will be a choice, a clear choice, a choice between someone who will stand up to the machine and someone who has long been part of it. Between someone who will fight for hardworking families and someone who will protect the political insiders.”
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Mr. Pritzker, who has donated close to $70 million to his own campaign, fell short of 50 percent of the Democratic vote, but still outpaced Chris Kennedy, a businessman and a son of Robert F. Kennedy, and Daniel Biss, a suburban state senator.
In an acceptance speech before a crowd of supporters here on Tuesday night, Mr. Pritzker, 53, called for universal health care, fair wages, protections for labor unions and the legalization of marijuana.
He vowed to be a champion for the needy, for children, and for immigrants who have come to Illinois seeking a better life.
“This campaign is about a fight for economic security, about jobs and wages,” Mr. Pritzker said. “I choose to fight for the struggling. I choose to fight for the black and brown communities across our state, for the one thing, the one and only thing you’ve asked for for so long — fairness.”
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“Are you ready for a fight?” he said, drawing wild applause.
Mr. Pritzker and Mr. Rauner are fighting to lead a state with deeply entrenched problems. Whoever wins will have to contend with Illinois’s vastly underfunded pension systems; worries about residents fleeing the state; and a sagging economy downstate, where manufacturing jobs have disappeared, leaving many residents unemployed and financially struggling.
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Both men have moved in elite Chicago circles of business and philanthropy for decades, yet they did not share a personal relationship. In an interview last month, Mr. Pritzker said he barely knew Mr. Rauner, and was better acquainted with his wife, Diana Rauner, who runs a public-private partnership focused on early childhood.
Mr. Rauner, a native of Chicago’s wealthy north suburbs who made a fortune as the chairman of a private-equity firm, presented himself to voters in 2013 as an outsider, a Harley-riding political newcomer with a folksy affect who would fix Illinois’s financial problems and make the state more attractive to companies.
Mr. Rauner’s tenure has been marked by a budget impasse that paralyzed Illinois, especially social-service agencies, arts organizations and public universities that depend on state funding. It was finally resolved last July when Democrats in the State Legislature overrode Mr. Rauner’s veto, ending the stalemate and passing a budget.
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During his first run for office, he rarely mentioned social issues like abortion and managed to attract sizable support from independents and Democrats. As governor, he angered religious conservatives by signing a bill that expanded abortion coverage for women on Medicaid.
Last week, he vetoed a piece of legislation that would have required gun dealers to obtain state licenses, a move that was widely seen as an appeal to Republicans in rural downstate Illinois.
Ms. Ives, a member of the Illinois House, positioned herself as the true conservative in the race. But she trailed Mr. Rauner in fund-raising, raising $4 million to his $100 million. She criticized Mr. Rauner over abortion rights, immigration and his handling of a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak at a state-run veterans home that has left 13 people dead since 2015.
In the campaign’s final days, the Democratic Governors Association sneaked into the fray, running a television ad attacking Ms. Ives as “too conservative” — presumably a veiled attempt to give Ms. Ives a boost in the hopes that she could overtake Mr. Rauner in the primary.
In the closely watched congressional primary, the challenger, Ms. Newman, drew on Democrats’ appetite for more confrontational and liberal officeholders as she gave Mr. Lipinski the biggest scare he has had since he was elected in 2004.
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Wielding support from an array of progressive groups, Ms. Newman assailed Mr. Lipinski, a conservative Democrat, for his opposition to such liberal priorities as abortion rights and the Affordable Care Act.
After attempting to ignore the challenge, Mr. Lipinski scrambled to put down the insurgency with a late blitz of commercials and mailers highlighting his more orthodox positions and roots in Chicago’s so-called Bungalow Belt.
He succeeded his father in the seat, which has sent a Lipinski to Washington since 1982. But the same southwest side and suburban Chicago precincts that were mainstays of the city’s Democratic machine are quickly evolving. A growing Hispanic population and the influx of upscale white voters have transformed what were once working-class Irish and Polish neighborhoods. The remaining, machine-aligned precincts in the city helped him compete against Ms. Newman.
“I would like Mr. Lipinski to have a very painful evening, so we’re going to wait,” Ms. Newman told supporters after taking the stage around 10:45 p.m. local time, adding only that she would say more on Wednesday.
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Fourth nor’easter in three weeks drowns out the arrival of spring
March 21, 2018 by admin
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More than a half-foot of snow fell on parts of the mid-Atlantic on Tuesday as spring opened with yet another nor’easter — the fourth in less than three weeks.
An icy medley of snow, sleet and freezing rain coated metropolitan Philadelphia and much of the Washington, D.C., suburbs, with moderate to heavy snow recorded from northern Maryland to southern New Jersey by mid-afternoon.
About 400 arrivals and departures were canceled Tuesday at Philadelphia International Airport, Reagan National Airport in the D.C. suburbs and Baltimore/Washington International-Thurgood Marshall Airport.
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Many more Wednesday arrivals and departures were pre-emptively canceled at major airports in the Northeast, where the worst of the storm was expected to arrive beginning overnight — more than 3,200 by midnight Tuesday, more than 2,100 of them at the big three New York regional hubs: JFK and LaGuardia airports in Queens and Newark airport in New Jersey.
Amtrak canceled Wednesday’s Acela express service from Washington through New York to Boston and limited other service sharply throughout the region. New York and Philadelphia city schools will be closed Wednesday.
Regional utilities reported only a few thousand customers without power scattered across the sprawling northeastern quadrant of the country Tuesday night. But that number was expected to skyrocket Wednesday as the icy mess moves up the Northeastern and New England coasts before ending as all snow in New England on Thursday, the National Weather Service said.
Various winter weather advisories stretched from northwestern North Carolina to Massachusetts early Tuesday evening. Most of the eastern half of that area — including Baltimore; Boston; Hartford, Connecticut; metropolitan New York; Philadelphia; Providence, Rhode Island; and Washington — was either already under more severe winter storm warnings or was to be under such warnings at rush hour Wednesday morning.
“Travel will be very difficult to impossible, especially during the evening commute” on Wednesday in cities like New York, Philadelphia and New Haven, where snow accumulations of more than a foot were predicted, the National Weather Service said.
Significant but lesser accumulations of 4 to 8 inches were predicted for Washington, Baltimore and other cities farther south, while 5 to 10 inches of snow was expected in Boston and points north, it said.
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The new system extends a streak of late-season nor’easters that have bashed the East Coast this month.
The first nor’easter of the month, on March 2, halted flights and caused chaos for commuters. A second nor’easter, on March 7, left thousands of customers without power and up to 2 feet of snow on the ground. The third, on March 12, hammered parts of the Northeast and New England.
But Ari Sarsalari, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel, said this week’s system could top them all.
“For New York City, this is probably going to end up as the biggest of the four nor’easters, at least as far as snow totals go,” he said. “This is going to be a straight-up, all-day snow event.”
Jeff Kneuppel, general manager of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA, urged people to get early trains out of Philadelphia on Tuesday, telling NBC Philadelphia that Wednesday would be a very difficult travel day.
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The coincidence of spring’s arriving in tandem with another nor’easter made for an odd display of merchandise at a Busy Beaver building supply store in Washington, Pennsylvania, about 25 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.
“We’ve had a rather unique month with March,” Mike Monath, the store’s general manager, told NBC affiliate WPXI of Pittsburgh on Tuesday. “We’ve tried to transition into spring, [but] the weather is not cooperating, so we have a mixture of Easter flowers, gas grills and also rock salt and ice-melter, which is still popular this morning.”